Eggma'am

About

Eggma'am, also known as Doctor Eggma'am, is a gender-bent version of the villain Doctor Eggman from the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series. She became the subject of Rule 63 fan art and redraws starting in early 2021 on Twitter when Doctor Robotnik was handed the Super Crown power-up by Bowser in a fan art depiction. She is similar to other feminized versions of classic video game characters like Toadette and Bowsette.

Origin

On February 8th, 2021, Twitter^[1] user aukives posted a fan art depiction of the Super Mario character and villain Bowser handing the Super Crown to Doctor Eggman. The tweet (shown below, left) received roughly 6,900 likes over the course of one year. The next day, on February 9th, Twitter^[2] user TinaFate1, or CEO of MILFS, quote retweeted the fan art, captioning a drawing they'd made with "sorry not sorry," and earning roughly 14,600 likes in one year (shown below, right).

The original drawing of Eggma'am (shown below, left) was then named "Eggma'am" later on February 9th by Twitter^[3] user TinaFate1 in a reply they posted that received over 580 likes in one year (shown below, right).

Spread

In February 2021, Twitter users started to create their own Eggma'am drawings. For instance, on February 9th, Twitter^[4] user GoodMudkip posted a drawing that received 74 likes in one year (shown below, left). Also on the 9th, Twitter^[5] user UltimaShadowX posted a tweet that related Eggma'am to the Sonic character Omlette, earning over 740 likes in one year (shown below, right).

On November 23rd, 2021, Twitter^[6] user RCaseDrawsStuff posted Eggma'am art, earning over 580 likes in four months (shown below, left). On December 2nd, 2021, Twitter^[7] user RCaseDrawsStuff followed up on their Eggma'am drawing, stating, "After I drew Eggmaam I started brainstorming what my take on gender swapped Sonic characters might look like and this is what I came up with for Knuckles last night." Their Rule 63 version of Knuckles received roughly 1,400 likes in three months (shown below, right).

In March 2022, interest in Eggma'am on Twitter received a resurgence in attention. This was sparked by a drawing posted by Twitter^[8] user ciosuii on March 5th that earned roughly 122,600 likes over the course of six days (shown below, left). Multiple Twitter users and digital artists hopped onto the Eggma'am fan art trend going into the remainder of 2022. For instance, on March 9th, Twitter^[9] user NRG_98 posted a new Eggma'am drawing, earning roughly 1,800 likes over the course of two days (shown below, right).

Additionally, on March 7th, the website Nintendo Life published an article^[10] titled, "Forget Bowsette, 2022 Is The Year Of 'Eggma'am,'" which earned attention on Twitter^[11] from ciosuii, whose tweet about it earned roughly 1,300 likes over the course of three days (shown below).

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