19 Inches of Venom

About

19 Inches of Venom refers to jokes made about a tweet posted by PlayStation UK that advertised a 19-inch Venom figurine with the phrase, "Treat yourself to 19 inches of Venom." The tweet led to a series of jokes on Twitter implying that "19 inches of Venom" was a reference to Venom's penis.

Origin

On September 4th, 2023, the @PlayStationUK^[1] Twitter account advertised that pre-orders for the Spider-Man 2 video game Collector's Edition came with a 19-inch Venom figurine. The tweet (shown below) reads, "Treat yourself to 19-inches of Venom and more with the Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Collector's Edition," gaining over 7,000 retweets, 63,000 likes, and notably 18,000 quote-tweets, many of which were jokes about the tweet's phrasing.

Spread

The tweet was immediately parodied in a variety of jokes that implied "19-inches of Venom" referred to the size of Venom's penis. For example, on September 4th, 2023, X^[2][3] user @tamoorh posted a meme poking fun at the account's manager for tweeting such a suggestive phrase, gaining over 10,000 retweets and 60,000 likes in one day (shown below, left). The same day, user @RedLightning420 posted a Tom Holland getting backshots meme featuring Venom to joke about the tweet, gaining over 2,100 retweets and 25,000 likes in one day (shown below, right).

IGN joined in on the joke, tweeting a video of Emo Peter Parker with the caption, "me on my way to get those 19 inches," gaining over 6,800 retweets and 64,000 likes that day (shown below, top). User @buckfastbadlad tweeted a video of a soccer player crawling on the ground in pain to joke about the tweet, gaining over 140 retweets and 1,900 likes in one day (shown below, bottom).

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