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You And I Are Not So Different refers to scene from 2002 film Spider-Man where Spider-Man and Green Goblin on the roof talking each other and saying that they are the same. The scene gained popular in 2020s as reaction and object labeling edits when the two sides which claiming they are different, but then in one case found out they are not.

Origin

On May 3rd, 2002, the Spider-Man film directed by Sam Raimi has been premiered in the US^[1]. In the film, there is a scene Green Goblin kidnapped Spider-Man and took him to the roof. After he conscious, Green Goblin talking to Spider-Man, claiming that they are the same because they are "amazing creatures", later he denied it and reply "I'm not like you, you're a murderer." (scene shown below).

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In 2020s, the scene gained popular which been used as reaction image of the two sides that looks different turns out to be same instead. For example on December 12th, 2020, Reddit^[2] user TonyGr7 uploaded a screenshot of headline news about Koala to the /r/memes. The post received more than 32,000 upvotes in four years (shown below).

On December 11th, 2021, Facebook^[3] page "Screen Rant" uploaded an edit by adding image of Masturbating Spider-Man and photo of Willem Dafoe in front of the photo of himself. The post received more than 127,000 reactions and 17,000 shares in three years (shown below).

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