Happy Shadow

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About

Happy Shadow (also called "The Legendary Happy Shadow" by the original artist: Swedish user Shadoukun) is a digital work of fanart drawn in the impression of Yuji Uekawa's Adventure era Sonic style. Something about the appearance of this beginner level art often makes people use it in exploitable meme formats ^[1]. Happy Shadow is recycled in amateur artist fan work as well. ^[2]

Beginning

It was posted initially on DeviantArt teasing a school project magazine by users GhostieShadow and Shadowkun ^[3]. As of 2022 it has 6k views and over 20k downloads according to DeviantArt metrics.

Meme-ification

it gradually became a likely choice of imagery for comical and serious works of content related to the Sonic the hedgehog series unofficially and often without proper credit. Recently, merchandising is included in the digital piracy. ^[4]

in the below image fanpop.com user shadowilfre posted an edited Happy Shadow as character Shady ^[5]

YouTube user Yesenia The Hedgehog using Happy Shadow for a Donald Duck line ^[6]

in a Sonic 06 review by YouTube user ClementJ64 posted November 9, 2012 he included Happy Shadow over an image of a child and an elderly woman playing bingo to depict his joke ^[7]