# Gotta Go Fast 'Gotta Go Fast' is a catchphrase attached to a crudely drawn Sonic the Hedgehog fan art that started spreading through forums like YouChew and Fanboys in 2008. Fans grabbed the line from the English Sonic X theme song and paired it with the ugly Sonic sketch, and the joint template became the go-to way to draw characters badly on Tumblr and deviantArt. ## Overview "Gotta Go Fast" is a catchphrase paired with a crudely drawn Sonic the Hedgehog fan art. The line comes from the opening theme of the English dub of Sonic X[1], the anime that first aired in 2003 as part of Sega's Sonic franchise[2]. Fans smashed the song lyric and the ugly Sonic sketch together, and the pairing stuck. The picture shows Sonic with mangled proportions, twitchy eyes, and a lazy blue paint job. Derivatives of the drawing later picked up the nickname "Sanic," a purposely worse redraw that spread across Tumblr and deviantArt. People pull out the phrase whenever anything moves quickly, from tool-assisted speedruns to unrelated fast objects and animals[4]. ## How It Spread About a month later, on February 19, 2008, a Fanboys Forum user reposted the drawing in a thread titled "Hilariously bad fanart"[3]. On April 22, 2008, deviantArt member ingridarcher uploaded the earliest known parody, Scout from Team Fortress 2 drawn in the same broken style. That set the template for redrawing other characters badly and slapping the phrase on them. By April 2009, Fanboys ran a follow-up thread called "The Hilariously Bad Art Thread" that pulled in more than 4,500 replies over the next four years[3]. The phrase was already floating around 4chan by May 2008, and the earliest archived posting of the image on the site hit the /r9k/ board on August 4, 2010. In October 2010, someone dropped the picture into the Tumblr blog Fuck Yeah Terrible Art, and a Facebook fan page opened November 27, 2010. The joke got its own single-topic hubs in the years that followed. The Tumblr blog Gotta Go Fanart launched on July 8, 2011, collecting fan redraws of other characters in the same botched Sonic style. A second Tumblr, sanic-hedgehog, followed in July 2012 and pushed the "Sanic" nickname across the site. Urban Dictionary entries piled up too, applying the line to speedrun clips and to anyone in a hurry[4]. ## How to Use The template is typically a character redrawn in the same lopsided cartoon style as the original Sonic sketch, then paired with the caption "Gotta Go Fast" or a stretched-out version like "GOTTA GO FASTER FASTER FASTER"[4]. People often swap Sonic for a different fast subject: a car, an animal, a speedrun clip, or an unrelated character mid-sprint. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Gotta Go Fast? It's a catchphrase pulled from the English Sonic X theme song[1] that got attached to a crudely drawn piece of Sonic the Hedgehog fan art in 2008, becoming a template for drawing other characters badly. ### Where did Gotta Go Fast come from? The phrase is the opening lyric of the Sonic X English dub theme, which ran from 2003 to 2006[2]. The bad Sonic drawing showed up on the YouChew forums on January 26, 2008, when a poster named Cortes reposted it from the Sonic Central fan gallery. ### What does Gotta Go Fast mean? It's used ironically to comment on anything moving quickly, from Sonic speedruns to random fast objects, animals, or people in a hurry[4]. ### How do you use Gotta Go Fast? Redraw a character in the same lopsided style as the original Sonic sketch and caption it with the phrase, or use the line as a reaction to something speeding up[4]. ### Is Gotta Go Fast still popular? The meme peaked between 2010 and 2013 across Tumblr, deviantArt and 4chan and settled into a classic Sonic fandom in-joke, with the Sanic redraw carrying it forward on Tumblr from July 2012[3]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk6AobT_SDo]() 2. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_X]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/gotta-go-fast]() 4. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Gotta%20Go%20Fast]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/gotta-go-fast Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library