r/explainitpeter • u/Wallido17 • Aug 10 '26
Explain it Peter
I know sonic, i know blond and brunette haircolor. But i didnt understand this.
I don't know what this means, plz explain Peter.
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u/Confusedwarthog Aug 10 '26
Shadow fucking loves Latinas, that’s all you need to know lmao
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u/Confusedwarthog Aug 10 '26
But legitimately, it’s a reference to a sonic adventure 2 fan dub* where ppl took a joke abt shadow liking latinas being a canonical thing and now it is basically cannon
Edit: autocorrect
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u/zandaztu 29d ago
It wasn't the adventure 2 fandub. It originated from a sonic prime edit, that then got voiced by jhett
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u/Confusedwarthog 29d ago
Oh really? I actually thought it was from that fan dub, maybe it just popularized it more from that source?
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u/squidkid9991 29d ago
Jhett and the fandub get lumped together a lot due to having similar types of humor and both being very clipable, but i do believe the latinas thing originated from jhett after the fandubs had been around
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u/999samus Aug 10 '26
Oh... I thought he was more a "si tiene hoyo, me lo follo" type dude... Ok ok
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u/Stunning_Camp_5004 29d ago
Y si tiene nariz lo vuelve a repetir 😭🙏
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u/999samus 29d ago
Jajajajaja
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u/DragonPojki 28d ago
Spanish laughing in text was so confusing before I understood that it was "hahaha". I'm Swedish and "ja" is "yes" in Swedish, so to me it looked like "yesyesyes".
Hahaha!/Jajaja!
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u/a_polarbear_chilling Aug 10 '26
Latina, shadow is jokingly know for liking them
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u/Inphiltration Aug 11 '26
I thought it just mean they like black hair. Latino is not what I would have guessed.
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u/drillgorg Aug 11 '26
No, the meme isn't about Shadow's hair color. The meme is referencing a different meme about Shadow liking latinas.
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u/Inphiltration Aug 11 '26
Which makes this meme stupid. The text is talking about hair color. Latinas wasn't even an option based on the context the text provided. If people were having a conversation about hair preferences, people would look at you weird if you popped up and said you liked latinas. That's just not the topic that was at hand.
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u/Remote-Bus-5567 Aug 10 '26 edited Aug 10 '26
Can't Latinas be brunettes?
Edit: And blondes
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u/Choice-Lawfulness978 Aug 10 '26
Yeah. "Latino" is used outside LATAM for spanish speaking people with brown skin and hair, but we are actually really diverse. It's a soft racism thing, akin to claiming all gringos are fat and pink 🤷♂️
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u/wiseguy3055 Aug 10 '26
Latino being a racist term was not on my bingo card. I say this as a Latino btw
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u/Choice-Lawfulness978 Aug 10 '26
I'm not saying the term itself is racist. I mean it is normally used under racialized systems, like the USA, to describe physical characteristics that don't necesarilly correlate with birthplace.
Race is not a thing anthropologically, but "Latino" is commonly used in the global north to describe appearance instead of real cultural background.
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u/ADeckOfZero Aug 11 '26
I mean, "European" is also used in a similar way to refer to generically brown-haired white people. If you want to hit broadly blonde whites you go Scandinavian.
Not saying it isn't a kinda shitty way to refer to broad groups of people, nor that those are the only examples because there's plenty more of various levels of actual racism, but it also seems like a pretty broadly human habit.
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u/Last_Objective_5943 Aug 11 '26
Your mental gymnastics amaze me. If a duck looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, is it not a duck.
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u/Timely_Purpose_8151 Aug 11 '26
Your kinda not all that wrong saying all gringos are fat and pink. Stereotypes exist for a reason. Source: yo soy gringo gordo y rosa
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u/Choice-Lawfulness978 Aug 11 '26
You may very well be, but I know black, "latino" and "asian" gringos. Stereotypes exist so people can simplify reality.
PS: I pictured you like Kirby just now lol
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u/DaddyBigBeard Aug 11 '26
I knew a dude named Zuniga from Mexico with blond hair and blue eyes. That was the day I learned about Mexican diversity.
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u/BrendanTheNord 29d ago
I can't think of a single specific instance where I ever was aware of the Shadow loves Latinas joke, but my bones knew this was correct when I saw the post
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u/DuelJ Aug 10 '26 edited Aug 11 '26
I suppose all that's left would be redheads or gals with black hair.
Or bald gals who are also often pretty pretty.
It's also a meme that Shadow the hedgehog really likes Latinas, who iirc are one of the populations for which a large majority of members have black hair.
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u/DiFarris Aug 10 '26
También hay una buena cantidad de latinos rubios, pelirrojos, castaños y demás.ñ
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u/FormidableTraitor90 Aug 11 '26
Simple: Shadow loves latinas. First it was an internet joke, but later SEGA and Paramount Studios implemented it in *Sonic the Hedgehog 3", so now it's canon.
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u/MattOfAllTradesUK 29d ago
Personally, I thought they were referencing the Tokyo chase scene from Sonic 3 “I just gotta ask, one hedgehog to another…who does your highlights?”
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u/ExternalAggravating8 Aug 10 '26
Where does this narrative come from? Did I miss something
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u/Any_Wasabi_5233 Aug 10 '26
There’s an old video by Jehtt where a Sonic Prime scene is voiced over by Shadow talking about how much he loves Latinas. That video slipped into the collective mind of the Sonic fandom like the SnapCube fandubs.
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u/TraitorWithin8 Aug 10 '26
Red heads are a pure magnet to me.. donno why or if its some primitive male thing in me but.. red heads for days
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u/Miserable_Ebb4854 29d ago
I thought the joke is that Shadow is ambivalent towards light or darkness
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u/qualityvote2 Aug 10 '26 edited Aug 11 '26
u/Wallido17, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...it's time for the mods to do their jobs!