The Bootleg Metal Sonic Plush Doll Meme Explained

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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. References to the poor interpretation

00:16of the character purportedly associated with the game Sonic the Fighters goes back to as

00:20early as 2021. But the meme really sparked in late December of 2024, after YouTuber t4thdo

00:26posted a short consisting of an image of a Metal Sonic doll set to a stripped-back version of the

00:31Sonic the Hedgehog song Stardust Speedway from Sonic CD, with one part isolated that sounds like

00:36this. The same creator would continue to post content using the same audio and image, often

00:44to fairly widespread results. On January 21st, 2025, TikToker RepA4 posted a version of the

00:50meme using a misheard song lyric format, garnering over 1.2 million views in three weeks, writing in

00:56huehuehue, spelled H-U-E, calling back a much older meme about how netizens type out laughter

01:01in Portuguese. The text interpretation of the audio stuck as a part of the meme, as going

01:05forward, many content creators would pair all three elements together in various sorts of

01:09meme content and absurd edits. More and more memers would start to reference the odd-looking Sonic

01:14plushie in all sorts of ways, including fan art, going as far as drawing him as though he were an

01:23actual Sonic character.

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