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Jacob Batalon Behind-the-Head Basketball Shot refers to a reaction video featuring the cast of the 2017 Marvel Spider-Man: Homecoming celebrating a missed basketball shot by actor Jacob Batalon. Many online have used the video to express feelings of support for a friend.

Origin

On July 28th, 2019, Jacob Batalon posted on Instagram ^[1] a video of himself looking at the camera and shooting a basketball in a pool. Because he is not looking at the shot, he misses the basket, but his friends, the cast of Spider-Man: Homecoming, celebrate as if he made the shot. The post received more than 1.4 million views and 500,000 likes in two days (shown below).

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That day, the Twitter ^[2] account @_tholland_ shared the video. The post received more than 24 million views, 5,800 likes and 2,200 retweets in two days.

Twitter user @uhhmarvel tweeted the video with the caption "if your friends don’t hype you up like this what’s the point." The post received more than 350,000 likes and 113,000 retweets in two days (shown below).

if your friends don’t hype you up like this what’s the point pic.twitter.com/GLbSw5uTyH

— 𝙘𝙝𝙡𝙤𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙬 𝙛𝙛𝙝 (@uhhmarvel) July 28, 2019

The following day, ESPN tweeted the video with the caption "The Spider-Man cast = friendship goals." The post received more than 1.4 million views, 53,000 likes and 6,000 retweets in 24 hours (shown below).

The Spider-Man cast = friendship goals 😂 (via lifeisaloha/Instagram) pic.twitter.com/EPLhf3T906

— ESPN (@espn) July 29, 2019

Various Examples

The kind of friends I need 😂#MondayMotivation pic.twitter.com/pUabwkMOvD

— Ayo of Ibadan (@theayoadams) July 29, 2019

my friends hyping me up after i shoot my shot and get rejected pic.twitter.com/mrtYV3C3NG

— 𝙖𝙣𝙖 (@slwutty) July 29, 2019

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