About

So Stoked To Watch Ratatouille With You Tonight refers to a selfie of a shirtless, muscular man captioned, "so stoked to watch Ratatouille with you tonight." The image was posted online in May 2021 and inspired redraws over the course of the year where the muscular man is redrawn as a new character, typically a reference to pop culture media.

Origin

On May 26th, 2021, Instagram^[1] user daddyknives posted a selfie image of a shirtless, muscular man holding an iPhone, captioned with an Instagram text bar, "so stoked to watch Ratatouille with you tonight," gaining over 3,600 likes in 10 months (shown below). This is the earliest known upload of the image.

Spread

The meme went viral through reposts in the following weeks. For example, it was posted to /r/196^[2] on June 6th, 2021, gaining over 2,000 upvotes in nine months. On June 13th, Twitter^[3] user @bmotl15 posted a meme using the phrase, gaining over 11,900 likes in a similar span of time (shown below).

On September 24th, Twitter^[4] user @sparkdation posted a redraw of the meme where Venom replaces the man, gaining over 200 likes in six months (shown below).

On March 5th, 2022, Instagram^[5] page sonny5ideup posted the original meme, gaining over 50,000 likes in two weeks. On March 19th, Twitter^[6] user @OtachanShow posted a redrawn version of the meme, gaining over 36,000 likes and 2,100 retweets in two days.

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