one of the most retarded takes in the Sonic fandom is a constant chant "Knuckles is black-coded uwu dwaw him as black" just because his theme songs are rap or just because they fetishize socjus dogmas

like, bitch, if you didn't even bother to familiarise yourself with Sonic Adventure where its made very clear that his entire lineage is based on Mayan culture and there's a fucking copypasta of Tikal ruins along with a fucking echidna character named Tikal who belonged to his tribe then what the fuck are you even doing yapping *anything* about Knuckles, sew your fucking mouth with a metal thread and gtfo you fucking normie

for an added layer of irony Knuckles used to be a naive hot blooded but level headed spiritual character and you chucklefucks seem to be happy embracing his current sorry "unga bunga Knuckles punch" image, do you call *this* "black coding" or what?