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"Do You See This Shit?" is an exploitable screencap from the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon series. The scene became an exploitable template in the 2010s, as memers added different characters to the scene and added the caption, "Do you see this shit, X?"

Origin

The screencap originated from the second part of the first episode of the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon titled "Sub-Zero for Spidey," which first aired on September 9th, 1967.^[1] The scene involves Spider-Man trying to find the ice creature that had attacked Dr. Smartyr, and then finds the culprit not long after climbing up a building and looking down from its rooftop.

A screencap of Spider-Man looking down from the rooftop was created when the series was released on DVD in 2004.

Spread

The earliest known use of the meme was on MLPForums, in a thread titled "Spiderman and Batman picture captions ONLY [Bad Language]". On January 27th, 2012, MLPForums user D1SC0RD posted the screencap, but added My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic character Applejack looking down from the rooftop with Spider-Man along with the caption "do you see this shit applejack?".^[2]

Later edits would change out Applejack with different characters such as Pearl, Luz, Dr. Robotnik, or Invader Zim (examples shown below).

On September 16th, 2019, Twitter artist MagicalPouch posts a drawing of Inosuke and Gonpachiro from Demon Slayer for #redrawinosuke using the "are you seeing this shit applejack" image as a reference.^[3] The Tweet received over 1,000 likes and over 500 retweets (shown below).

In 2020, a surge of Hololive fanart using the scene started to appear. On September 19th, 2020, Twitter artist Frank Pineda posted the meme using Hololive characters Shirakami Fubuki and Kiryu Coco, citing MagicalPouch's Gonpachiro version of the meme as the reference for Fubuki.^[4]

Meme Template

Various Examples

Search Interest

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