Do yu no de wey?
Ugandan Knuckles is the nickname given to a depiction of the character Knuckles from the Sonic franchise. The weird version of Knuckles made his debut in a Sonic Lost World video review from Gregzilla, a popular YouTuber with more than 120,000 subscribers. Other YouTubers latched on to the character and started to create “Knuckles Sings” videos, a series of memes in which the deformed Knuckles sang a variety of songs, like Smash Mouth’s “All Star.”
Is often used as an avatar by players in the multiplayer game VRChat who repeat phrases like “do you know the way” and memes associated with the country Uganda. The character is associated with the expression “do you know the way”, which is typically spoken in a mock African accent and phonetically spelled as “do you know de wey.”
“Ugandan Knuckles”, thanks to an easily downloadable character model and the explosive world of VRChat, the problematic meme has been quickly spreading.
Some phrases a lot of people use include: 'YOU DO NOT KNOW THE WAY!’, 'WHY R U RUNNING?!’, 'THE QUEEN, WHERE HAS SHE GONE!!’, '*clicking noises*'
In the coming days, numerous image macros and photoshops referencing the Ugandan Knuckles character circulated within various meme-themed internet communities.
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