Peter Parker's Glasses

About

Peter Parker's Glasses is a multi-pane exploitable series in which Spider-Man alter ego Peter Parker looks at various images that drastically change as he puts his glasses on and off.

Origin

In the 2002 film Spider-Man, the protagonist Peter Parker takes his glasses on and off while discovering he no longer needs them after gaining super powers (shown below).

On August 29th, 2016, a four-pane image in which Hillary Clinton is transformed into a land fill was posted on 9gag (shown below).^[1] Within seven months, the post received more than 29,200 points and 680 comments.

Spread

On October 14th, Redditor TheNotoriousWeb-M-D submitted a Watch Those Wrist Rockets-themed version of the image to /r/me_irl,^[5] where it gathered upwards of 2,500 points (97% upvoted) within five months (shown below, right). On March 12th, the official Twitter feed for the Houston Rockets tweeted a version of the image in which a goat is transformed into the basketball team's shooting guard James Harden (shown below).^[4] Within 10 days, the tweet received more than 5,100 likes and 4,000 retweets.

On March 19th, Redditor HellspawnedJawa submitted a photoshop of the image in which a screenshot of a dog humping a woman becomes a poster for the 2017 film Beauty and the Beast (shown below, left). The following day, Redditor 0v3r1de submitted a picture of Parker looking at a cover the book The Diary of a Young Girl by Ann Frank which transforms into the book Diary of a Wimp Kid to /r/dankmemes^[2] (shown below). Within 24 hours, the post gained over 3,000 points (95% upvoted) and was subsequently reposted to /r/MemeEconomy.^[3]

Templates

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