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Spider-Man Texting refers to a screenshot of Spider-Man texting in Marvel's Spider-Man. Shortly after the game's release, the screenshot was paired with various captions and photoshops imagining various humorous things Spider-Man was texting.

Origin

In a scene of Marvel's Spider-Man, Peter Parker as Spider-Man texts Mary Jane Watson while swinging around New York City (shown below, mild spoilers).

On September 10th, 2018, Twitter user @Green_Enkidu^[1] posted a screenshot from the scene implying that Spider-Man was using the gay male dating app Grindr (shown below).

Spread

In the following days, other Twitter users took the screenshot to imagine various humorous things Spider-Man was texting. One popular strand of the jokes imagined him texting a girlfriend. For example, Twitter user @mineifiwildout posted a "stayed home and trusted you" parody, gaining over 13,000 retweets and 48,000 likes (shown below, left). User @OMGits_khairy gained 4,300 retweets and 9,400 likes with a parody imagining Spider-Man texting Green Goblin.

Of note, EDM producer Diplo joined in on the meme, gaining over 1,500 retweets and 6,700 likes (shown below, left). Another popular example tweeted by user @hypedresonance gained over 980 retweets and 3,600 likes (shown below, right). The jokes were covered by The Daily Dot.^[2]

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