Spiderman Pointing At Spiderman
Where it came from
A shot from the 1967 Spider-Man animated series where two identical Spider-Men confront each other and point, each accusing the other of being the impostor. Became a meme for pointing out hypocrisy in the 2010s.
Two Spider-Men stand in a bare warehouse, pointing at each other. They're wearing the same suit, the same mask, and they both look furious. The joke is that both of them think the other is the fake. You use it whenever two things are hypocritically accusing each other of the same thing they're both doing, or when two groups are identical but convinced they're opposites.
The original 1967 frame is so obviously cheap-looking — the animation is stiff, the backgrounds are empty, the colors are flat — and that era-incongruity is part of what makes it funny. It's a 60-year-old cartoon being used to call out internet discourse. The format is so widely understood now that you can just post it with no text and people still get it.
Evergreen at this point. People post it monthly about whatever the latest hypocrisy discourse is, and it never stops being applicable.
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