About

Double Boost refers to a move in Sonic Forces when Sonic the Hedgehog and the player's avatar join together to perform a high-five. After this gesture, they perform a Spin Jump before dashing away, and with their combined strength, they perform an augmented boost.^[2] Once activated, a short version of the song Fist Bump plays instead the background music.^[1] The song has been used in remix videos on YouTube.

Origin

On July 6th, 2017, the official Sonic the Hedgehog YouTube account uploaded the full version of the song. As of March 3rd, 2018, the video has 2.9 million views with about 2.1 million likes (shown below).^[1]

The theme to Sonic Forces was composed by Tomoya Ohtani, written by Douglas Robb, and performed by Hoobastank. The rock song is somewhat similar to previous songs in earlier installment of Sonic games like the Sonic Adventure series.^[1]

Spread

On August 26th, 2017, YouTuber XPool da Meme Lord uploaded a video of Sonic the Hedghog and their possible original character performing a Double Boost using sprite animation, which gained 3,560 views as of March 2018. In June 2019, the video had been removed by the creator (shown below, left).^[4] A day later, YouTuber Jdude330 made a Blazblue edit of when Sonic and the avatar complete a Double Boost, obtaining 6,700 views (shown below, right).^[7]

On November 15th, 2017, YouTuber Redcat628 created a video with Plankton of Spongebob Squarepants when he tries to shift into maximum overdrive, receiving 3,100 views (shown below, left).^[6] Three days later, YouTuber Modern Sonic made a version with live action plush Sonic and Sliver performing the gesture, currently having 1,050 views (shown below, right).^[5]

On February 13th, 2018, YouTuber Mr. Pasquale posted a shitpost of Double Boost, attaining 74,000 views (video shown below).^[8]

As of the month of March, searching up the term "double boost" results in over 1,860,000 matches on YouTube.^[9]

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