LEGO Bruce Wayne Zoom-In

About

LEGO Bruce Wayne Zoom-In refers to a meme and scene from The LEGO Batman Movie in which Bruce Wayne's at a gala and sees Batgirl as the camera zooms in and the song "(I Just) Died In Your Arms Tonight" by Cutting Crew plays. In 2023, a clip of the scene was captioned on TikTok and found usage as an exploitable green screen template to portray being in love at first sight. The LEGO Bruce Wayne Zoom-In then became a notable reaction GIF on Instagram and Twitter / X where it would often appear in the comment sections of numerous posts.

Origin

On February 10th, 2017, The LEGO Batman Movie was released in American theaters.^[1] In one scene, Bruce Wayne is at a gala wearing a white tuxedo and black bowtie when he sees Barbara Gordon (aka Batgirl) across the room. The camera zooms in on his face as the song "(I Just) Died In Your Arms Tonight" by Cutting Crew^[2] plays.

The scene was posted to Facebook^[3] by the official The LEGO Batman Movie account on January 21st, 2017, as part of a promo, gaining 3,000 reactions in six years. The unaltered scene was first published to YouTube on June 12th, 2017, by YouTuber^[4] Serodi, gaining roughly 268,300 views and 6,700 likes in six years (shown below).

In January 2017, the scene was then added as a GIF to the site Tenor.^[5]

However, predominant memetic usage of the scene didn't surface until late 2022. Currently, the first-known meme to use the scene was posted by iFunnier ^[6] @StupidDarkMemes on September 22nd, 2022, who referenced the McDonald's Cashier concept, gaining roughly 35,300 smiles in one year (shown below).

Spread

Going into early 2023, the aforementioned video was reposted to Reddit^[7] and gained copycats on TikTok.^[8]

Original variations then started to surface, such as a moldy meme shared by iFunnier^[9] @unlesstheyfall on March 9th, 2023, which referenced autistic people and trains, gaining roughly 1,800 smiles in nine months (shown below, left).

On May 28th, Redditor Geek_32 shared a distressing and crudely recaptioned meme to /r/doodoofard^[10] that received over 2,600 upvotes in seven months (shown below, right).

Later in 2023, predominantly starting in September 2023, TikTokers notably adopted the format. For instance, on September 15th, TikToker^[11] @dvrkie825 posted a Mugshawtys meme that referenced "I Can Fix Her," gaining roughly 112,800 plays and 4,500 likes in three months (shown below, left).

On October 6th, TikToker^[12] @crazywandastan posted an iteration that referenced "seeing Bro's mom for the first time," gaining roughly 1.2 million plays and 207,300 likes in two months (shown below, right).

On October 27th, 2023, TikToker^[13] @igreenscreenthings posted a greenscreen template of the scene, which received roughly 2.7 million plays and 161,500 likes in two months (shown below, left). The template quickly gained usage, evident in a meme shared by TikToker^[14] @teej1602 on October 28th, which received roughly 84,000 plays and 10,300 likes in two months (shown below, right).

LEGO Bruce Wayne GIF On Instagram

In late 2023, as the template trended on TikTok and Instagram via video content, Instagram users began spamming a GIF of the LEGO Bruce Wayne Zoom-In within comment sections. The spam trend gained notoriety on the app, evident in an Instagram screenshot shared by iFunnier^[15] @Amoogus on November 8th, 2023, which gained roughly 1,600 smiles in one month (shown below).

Similar screenshots were shared on Instagram^[16] in late 2023.

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