Ugandan Knuckles is a throwback to the early days of the anarchic messageboard 4chan, whose anonymous users gleefully raided multiplayer kids’ games. On the 8-bit children’s game Habbo Hotel, they ...

Fans of Sonic The Hedgehog are well acquainted with Knuckles, the red echidna made popular through a series of video games produced by Sega. Recently, the character has taken on a whole new persona ...

In case you’ve been lucky enough to avoid it, here’s a brief recap of the Ugandan Knuckles phenomenon. The character started as a funny drawing on a gaming YouTube channel, then some fans gave it a ...

“Ugandan Knuckles” has its origins in a nearly year-old joke, but thanks to an easily downloadable character model and the explosive world of VRChat, the problematic meme has been quickly spreading.

While you’ve been hanging out on the centralized, Instagram-filtered internet, full of hashtags and viral GIFs, a weird, wild, and extremely fascinating new territory has been established — surrounded ...

Sonic the Hedgehog’s Twitter account, always on the pulse of culture, has weighed in on the “Ugandan Knuckles” meme dominating certain corners of the internet. And, as it often does, Sonic manages to ...