00:00The Sonic fandom is big, so big their niche fandom memes can bleed into the mainstream,
00:08which is why today I'm talking about this ugly bootleg Metal Sonic plushie doll.
00:12This cursed doll has been around the internet for years.
00:14References to the poor interpretation of the character purportedly associated with the
00:18game Sonic the Fighters goes back to as early as 2021, but the meme really sparked in late
00:23December of 2024 after YouTuber T4thDo posted a short consisting of an image of a Metal
00:28Sonic doll set to a stripped-back version of the Sonic the Hedgehog song Stardust Speedway
00:33from Sonic CD with one part isolated that sounds like this.
00:40The same creator would continue to post content using the same audio and image, often to fairly
00:45widespread results.
00:46On January 21st, 2025, TikToker Rebe4 posted a version of the meme using a misheard song
00:52lyric format, garnering over 1.2 million views in three weeks, writing in hue hue hue, spelled
00:57H-U-E, calling back a much older meme about how netizens type out laughter in Portuguese.
01:02The text interpretation of the audio stuck as a part of the meme, as going forward, many
01:06content creators would pair all three elements together in various sorts of meme content
01:10and absurd edits.
01:11More and more memers would start to reference the odd-looking Sonic plushie in all sorts
01:15of ways, including fan art, going as far as drawing him as though he were an actual Sonic
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