Ima Get You the Battle Pass Miles
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Ima Get You the Battle Pass Miles, also known as Ima Get You the PS5 Miles, is a four-panel image macro meme in which the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse character Uncle Aaron promises his nephew Miles Morales to gift him a battle pass for Fortnite, but discovers shortly after that he is unable to do so by using Fortnite's in-game currency V-Bucks. Online, the meme format has been a subject of various references and is frequently used for recaptions.
Origin
On November 20th, 2020, Twitter[1] user @CloudStrian posted a meme using four still images from the 2018 animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse captioned with a humorous exchange about the PlayStation 5 shortage between the protagonist Miles Morales and his uncle Aaron Davis. The post (shown below) gained over 110 retweets and 590 likes prior to deletion.
Spread
On November 20th, 2020, Twitch streamer GamesCage tweeted[2] a voiced version of the meme that garnered over 230 retweets and 2,100 likes in three years (shown below).
(We recorded this live on stream) pic.twitter.com/WrIAd4X8zy
— GamesCage – Hype Guy (@OnTheDownLoTho) November 21, 2020
In the following years, the meme saw viral spread through reposts. For example, on November 21st, 2020, Tumblr[3][4] user joshlovesyou reposted the first and the fourth panels of the meme, with the posts gaining over 1,900 reblogs and 2,100 likes and 1,500 reblogs and 1,700 likes, respectively, in three years. On December 28th, 2021, Twitter[5] user @quotafallouts quote tweeted a post by the Twitter gimmick account Every Spider-Verse Frame with a reference to the meme. The tweet (shown below) garnered over 1,000 retweets and 11,900 likes in two years.
On March 23rd, 2022, Instagram[8][9] user anxolotls posted a version of the meme recaptioned with a joke about Fortnite's Battle Pass (original post no longer available) On May 10th, 2022, Twitter[6] user @spinal_coaster reposted the image, with the post gaining over 950 retweets and 6,700 likes in a year. The image was widely circulated online in the following months.
This version of the meme spawned more memes and references in 2022 and 2023, spiking in virality in May 2023 following the addition of the Miles Morales skin to Fortnite.[7]
Various Examples
Search Interest
External References
[1] Twitter – @CloudStrian
[2] Twitter – @OnTheDownLoTho
[3] Tumblr – joshlovesyou
[4] Tumblr – joshlovesyou
[5] Twitter – @quotafallouts
[6] Twitter – @spinal_coaster
[7] Fortnite – THE SPIDER-VERSE BRINGS WEB-SHOOTERS, MILES MORALES, AND MORE TO FORTNITE!
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