Sonic Pointing at Sonic

About

Sonic Pointing at Sonic or Sonic Pointing at Window refers to a series of memes based on a scene from the trailer for the 2020 film Sonic the Hedgehog in which titular character Sonic points outside the car window. Online, a still image of the scene has been used as an exploitable, with a notable edit of Sonic pointing at his previous design seeing use as an object labeling meme, often used in "Get a Load of This Guy" contexts.

Origin

On November 12th, 2019, the second trailer for the 2020 film Sonic the Hedgehog premiered.^[1] In one scene of the trailer, titular Sonic points outside a window at a drone flying outside, calling it cute. The trailer accumulated over 19.8 million views within four days.

Oh, this one is cute, let's keep it.

On the same day, Twitter user @sonicstadium posted an edited image of Sonic pointing at his previous design from the first trailer of the film.^[2] The tweet received over 8,500 retweets and 39,100 likes in four days (shown below).

Spread

On November 12th, 2019, more Twitter users posted memes based both on the scene and on @sonicstadium's post. For example, a Breaking News parody by @Dazzla84_SSFC received 270 likes in four days (shown below, left).^[3] A post mocking Banjo-Kazooie redesign by user @EchoOrcool received 90 likes in the same period (shown below, center).^[4]

On November 13th, 2019, Redditor timelord_fred posted @sonicstadium's edit to /r/MemeTemplatesOfficial subreddit, suggesting to use it as an object labeling meme. The post received over 5,100 upvotes in two days.^[5] On the same day, Redditor asian_bimbo posted a meme based on the template to /r/memes subreddit, gaining over 7,500 upvotes in two days (shown below, left).^[6] A November 14th meme by Redditor Nopsky gained over 11,000 upvotes in one day (shown below, right).^[7]

In the following day, the format saw further spread on Reddit, with examples posted in /r/memes, /r/dankmemes and other subreddits.

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