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We've been doing an endless amount of ranting and roasting of the terrible design of Sonic the Hedgehog in the recently released trailer. Since the release, the internet has been ripping the trailer to shreds, prompting the movie's director to announce a design change of our little hedgehog friend. 

Honestly we're still pretty skeptical that the redesign will be any good, and clearly the rest of the internet feels similarly - people have been redesigning Sonic with their own edits, and they're pretty terrifying...

TGIF, y'all! We'e finally made it through a week of Game of Thrones content, the horrifying Sonic trailer, and the general feeling that the world is completely f*cked. Congratulations! We definitely deserve this pleasant assortment of memes and 280 character jokes. Let's get this weekend going.

If you haven't had the, um, "pleasure" of viewing the new trailer for the Sonic the Hedgehog movie, then we'll save you the trouble: basically, it looks cringey as hell and everyone on the internet is pretty angry about it. So much so that the official trailer on YouTube currently has well over 300,000 downvotes to about 200,000 upvotes. 

Pretty dismal if you ask us, but then again, what else would you expect out of a movie that totally butchered our beloved little blue hedgehog friend?

When the going gets tough, the depressed turn to memes. Here's a whole frickin' bunch of 'em. 

We covered the internet's deep hatred for the recently announced live-action Sonic film earlier this week, but it seems people are far from done parodying it. The shop jobs and mockeries of the beloved hedgehog are piling up. And we're here to bring them to you.

Seems like Pikachu and Simba aren't the only beloved characters to get the realistic live-action movie treatment! Sonic has joined there ranks, much to the horror of his very, very devoted fans. A poster for the film was released just two days ago, and the speedy hedgehog's worshippers are not pleased with his appearance. The very obscured image shows that Sonic's gotten brolic and lacks his signature gloves. The poster was even compared to Sanic, a meme of the character but very crudely draw. After the initial outcry, people started responding with parodies and memes. The memes are definitely decent, but we're more troubled by the possibility of a Ugandan Knuckles comeback. It's horrifying. 

Gamers can unite with this roundup of geeky gaming memes!

Twitter user Eric Smith tweeted about a horrible first date he witnessed recently where one person was a Harry Potter fan and the other tragically was not. The tweet inspired others to make parody tweets of dates going similarly poorly.

Happy first memeversary to BAD ACRONYMS - another dank meme format that purposefully makes very little sense. Here are our all-time favorite examples of the meme.

Creators in tech and gaming often have lofty ideas of what their products and games will be used for. Unfortunately for them, it's very easy for an army of dorks to take that vision and completely destroy it. VRChat is the latest platform to witness this type of mega-trolling, which has arrived in the form of the super-viral meme "Ugandan Knuckles."

Ugandan Knuckles was born from a Youtube video from user Gregzilla, in which a lumpy Knuckles is animated...and singing. Things were taken to the next level when DeviantArtist released a 3D model of Gregzilla's Knuckles which can be used as a VRChat avatar. Players began using the low-quality avatars to further the Ugandan Knuckles meme and to troll other VRChat players. You can see the trolling in action in these videos that feature scores of Ugandan Knuckles babbling and spitting on other gamers. It's an awe-inspiring and hilarious shit show. 

The Ugandan Knuckles meme isn't limited to videos - it's become so popular that it's taken over several meme subreddits, and the Ugandan Knuckles image gallery on Know Your Meme has already surpassed 131 images. Even its creator has said the meme has gotten out of hand. While there could be a little more variety on r/dankmemes, we still think the meme is riotously absurd and hilarious. Enjoy our favorite examples below.