I applaud Sega of America and Ruby Eclipse for using this opportunity to raise brand awareness while promoting something that can do a lot of good. May they show us all "the way".
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Sonic (The Hedgehog) Sez: DONATE TO UGANDA!
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I applaud Sega of America and Ruby Eclipse for using this opportunity to raise brand awareness while promoting something that can do a lot of good. May they show us all "the way".
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They are pretty right about the first one being the small brain.
I still laugh at the Knuckles meme, but I can't deny its incredibly low brow humor.
I still laugh at the Knuckles meme, but I can't deny its incredibly low brow humor.
This is a thing?
Really?
I only know that stupid knuckles from this
Indeed. It's a terrible meme, but this is an excellent way of using it for a good purpose.
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Oh, no
I know what the original is from, i just knew that particular knuckles got really popular off of the singing stuff gregzilla did after the review.
Donating money doesn't make the meme any less horribly racist; not sure how I feel about Sega's official Twitter repeating it. Even in the way they did.
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Very cool way to transform the meme. I've made my peace with standard Ugandan Knuckles in hopes that it'll dissipate when the next VRChat fad happens, but I've been researching Uganda more than before and this certainly helps.
Now that is a good way to bring this meme to the masses. Huge props to the Sonic Twitter account for this. They spun a ridiculous meme into something that can be used for good.
I'm definitely donating.
I'm definitely donating.
A wise guy once said "Let's convert negativity into positivity, rather than confront them in social media as it just causes flame wars"
I don't know who is the wise guy that said this
They could have just ignored the meme. The problem here is that the meme has now been made "official" by a Sega owned Twitter account.
If you are the social media manager of Sonic account. How would you:
- Encourage people to donate to Uganda
- Raise awareness regarding the real situation in Uganda
- With no to little backlash from people who likes the meme
- With no to little backlash from people who don't like the meme
Well they could just ignore, the first two and go on post other memes and promote their games...
I'd just ignore the meme.
Encouraging people to donate is great, and I don't want to discount that. It's for this reason that I feel mildly conflicted about this.
Ultimately, however, donating to a cause doesn't give you a license to be racist—and by extension, I don't think that encouraging others to donate to a cause justifies acknowledging a racist meme on an official Twitter account.
Which might be a good thing, memes die quick when they go mainstream.
Is this really a thing? Does making a meme more mainstream encourage people to stop using it? I can't imagine why that would happen, regardless of whatever anecdotal evidence exists. The people who originally found the meme funny will still find it funny—but now more people will be introduced to it.
Of course, all memes will eventually die out, one way or another.
Unless it's about Square Enix shooting itself in the foot, in which case it will never get old.
The brain's fine, it's the Knuckles thing that's a bit... iffy.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/polygon-vrchat’s-new-favorite-joke-is-problematic.15706/
I hate this dumb meme and kept seeing it pop up all week. I'm really glad someone was able to put a positive spin on the thing.
What the fuck is this? Watched the entire thing... And... What.
Yes it's a thing. Once the "normies" get a hold of a meme they tend to lose steam among these crowds. I'm hoping this one burns out quickly because it's the worst.
Oh, I'd never seen this Knuckles one. I thought people were talking about the brain meme and phrenology or something. lol. Thanks.
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