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===History===
On February 20 2017, YouTuber Gregzilla uploaded a video on Sonic Lost World featuring a parody picture of Knuckles the Echidna. On December 22 2017, a 3D model of the Knuckles sketch was released on ''[[DeviantArt]]''. That day, YouTuber Stahlsby uploaded a video in which several ''VRChat'' players wearing the parody costume trolled others by making clicking noises and saying "You do not know the way".<ref>https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ugandan-knuckles Retrieved October 9 2018</ref> After that, more and more people flooded ''VRChat'' to troll others as Ugandan Knuckles, leading to controversy, as the mock Ugandan accent and quotations used were widely regarded as racist. However, The meme continued to gain popularity until about mid-January 2018, but had mostly subsided by February.<ref>https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=Ugandan%20Knuckles&geo=US retrieved October 9 2018</ref>
===Controversy===
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