Baby Sonic Cake

About

Baby Sonic Cake is a viral video of a baker who made a cake in the likeness of the character Baby Sonic from the film Sonic the Hedgehog. Many reacted to the cutting of the cake with jokes about the horror of seeing Sonic being cut by a knife.

Origin

On January 6th, 2019, YouTuber Sugar High Score published the video "Baby Sonic the Hedgehog Cake Tutorial." Within one week, the video received more than 3,100 views (shown below).

That day, Sugar High Schore shared the completed cake on "Twitter:/memes/sites/twitter/. They wrote, "All finished with my Baby Sonic Cake." The tweet received more than 437,000 views, 10,000 likes and 2,300 retweets in less than one week (shown below).

Spread

People responded to the video by posting jokes about Sonic being stabbed in the head. On January 7th, Twitter^[1] user @NitroRad tweeted an image edit of the cake being cut. They captioned the tweet, "My brain went straight to Uzumaki." The tweet received more than 3,200 likes and 285 retweets in less than two days (shown below, left). Twitter^[2] user @System9509 tweeted an image of Sonic being cut with the caption "I wuv u mommy." The post received more than 2,000 likes and 195 retweets in less than 24 hours (shown below, center). On January 8th, Redditor ^[3] Eggerslolol shared a Drakeposting variation using the cake (shown below, right).

Several media outlets covered the video, including BoingBoing,^[4] Vice ^[5] and more.

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