What is You're Too Slow!?

It's Sonic the Hedgehog's taunt in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, where he jogs in place with his feet drawing a figure-eight while taunting the opponent, later remixed heavily online.

Where did You're Too Slow! come from?

The line was written for Sonic's inclusion in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, which launched in the U.S. on January 31, 2008; the figure-eight run itself dates back to the Super Peel-Out move in Sonic CD.

What does You're Too Slow! mean?

In context it's Sonic bragging about his speed, but as a meme it's shorthand for over-the-top smugness, usually paired with the looping run animation.

How do you use You're Too Slow!?

People typically sample the audio into music remixes, splice it into YouTube Poop edits, or reference the figure-eight leg animation in fan art and cartoons like Piemations' 2016 Sonic video.

Is You're Too Slow! still popular?

It's a classic Sonic-meme touchstone that still gets referenced in fan work and comics well after Brawl's launch, with notable 2016 revivals from Piemations and Completely Serious Comics.

You're Too Slow!

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Published October 8, 2026

You're Too Slow! is a taunt Sonic the Hedgehog performs in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, where he jogs in place with his feet tracing an infinity sign while mocking opponents3. After the game's 2008 release, the clip was ripped, looped, and remixed into one of the earliest Sonic-based YouTube Poops, spawning years of parody edits.

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Overview

You're Too Slow! is Sonic's down taunt in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, delivered while he jogs in place with his legs blurring into a figure-eight loop1. The pose borrows directly from the Super Peel-Out move introduced in Sonic CD, where Sonic charges his feet into an infinity sign to launch forward at ramming speed2. In Brawl the animation is purely cosmetic, which is part of what made it so irritating since players could spam it mid-match without consequence3.

The meme itself is less about the taunt in isolation and more about what fans did with the audio. The line was ripped from Brawl footage almost immediately and spliced into music remixes, YouTube Poops, and shitpost edits that loop Sonic's smug delivery over and over1. Visually, the figure-eight leg animation became a shorthand for Sonic cockiness, resurfacing in webcomics and animated shorts long after Brawl's hype cycle ended4.

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Origin & Background

Platform

Super Smash Bros. Brawl / YouTube (viral spread)

Date

2008

Super Smash Bros. Brawl launched in the United States on January 31, 2008, and the taunt was written specifically for Sonic's appearance in the game1. Within days, taunt-showcase videos began hitting YouTube; one of the earliest circulating uploads collects Sonic's full taunt animations in a single clip5. The line was flagged as grating almost instantly, both because of Sonic's smug tone and because the taunt could be mashed without cooldown.

On August 3, 2008, YouTuber onepiececool uploaded one of the first remix tracks to use the audio, pitching the line into a looping song that pulled in hundreds of thousands of views over the following years6. That video helped establish the template for every You're Too Slow! edit that followed: isolate the clip, loop it, build something stupid around it.

How It Spread

After onepiececool's 2008 remix, the taunt became a staple of early YouTube Poop culture, with uploaders treating the clip the same way they treated Ike's I Fight for My Friends line, as prime splicing material1. The audio stayed in regular circulation on YouTube and message boards through the late 2000s and 2010s, largely detached from active Brawl competitive play6.

The meme got a second wind in 2016 when animator Piemations referenced the taunt in a popular Sonic cartoon on July 9, 2016, which pushed past 6.5 million views7. A month later, on August 11, 2016, webcomic Completely Serious Comics ran a nine-panel strip riffing on the same gag4. Entries on Urban Dictionary documented the catchphrase as something Sonic players would spam-type at opponents, calling it an infamous catchphrase that was turned into a meme almost immediately after Brawl shipped8.

The companion Brawl line Come On, Step It Up had its own smaller run through machinima edits but never hit the same remix volume as You're Too Slow!1.

Timeline

2008-01-31

Super Smash Bros. Brawl releases in the U.S. with Sonic's You're Too Slow! taunt[1].

2008-08-03

YouTuber onepiececool uploads an early remix track built around the audio clip[6].

2016-07-09

Piemations releases a Sonic animation that references the taunt, pulling in millions of views[7].

2016-08-11

Completely Serious Comics publishes a nine-panel strip riffing on the meme[4].

How to Use This Meme

The typical format samples Sonic's audio line and the figure-eight running animation, then loops either or both into a longer bit. Common conventions include stretching the clip into a music remix, dropping it in as a punchline over an unrelated video, or recreating the pose in fan art and animation to signal that a character is being insufferably cocky.