About

Grab Her Waist, also known as Batista Bomb Her, is a four-panel exploitable image template which at first appears to be giving advice on how to make a woman feel special ("grab her waist, pull her close, lift her up") but ends with violent advice. The original four-panel image ended with "Batista Bomb Her," referencing WWE wrestler Batista's finisher, but has been changed in edits.

Origin

The first mention of "grab her waist, pull her close, lift her up, Batista Bomb her" came from Twitter, though it is unclear who first tweeted it. The earliest known tweet of the phrase is dated June 6th, 2014, in a retweet of deleted account "@DrakesLilBro" by user @KortneyWilliams^[1] (shown below).

In early 2016, the text of the tweet was paired with images. It is unclear where the image originated (shown below).

Spread

The earliest known edit of the image appeared on Imgur^[2] on May 2nd, 2016, using Danny Devito's character in It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia as the fourth image (shown below, left). However, it was not until a year later when an illustrated edit of the original image appeared that the template began seeing exploitable edits. The earliest known post of the illustrated edit appeared on Imgur^[3] on September 2nd, 2017 (shown below, right).

The illustrated edit inspired the majority of exploitable edits. Examples include a Pokémon edit posted in /r/Animemes^[4] on October 2nd, 2019 that gained over 5,400 points (shown below, left) and a post in /r/MinecraftMemes^[5] posted

Various Examples

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