Spider-Man Cosplayers Recreate The Iconic Pointing Meme at SDCC
At this point in the history of nerd culture, nearly everyone who’s anyone knows about the iconic Spider-Man «pointing meme» where Spidey and his similarly dressed doppelgänger point accusingly at one another in hilarious fashion; an image that's turned this meme into a viral masterpiece that has been used as fuel for many different memes across the world. And now, at the recent 2022 gathering of nerds at the one and only Comic-Con Museum in San Diego, a Guinness World Record amount of cosplayers have recreated this meme to epic results!
Uploaded on Instagram by @comicconmuseum, this account is the official page for an “experience unlike any other,” where fans of Comic-Con and nerd culture alike can come to enjoy all things comics, film, television, video games, and anime-related. A photo taken during the final day of this year's epic San Diego Comic-Con but shot at the front of the Comic-Con Museum, this particular photo encapsulates everything great about meme culture and nerdom, as it marries fan love for Spider-Man with the impressive costume feats cosplayers pull off daily.
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A meme pulled from a 1967 episode of the animated Spider-Man show titled “Double Identity,” this “Spider-Man Pointing at Spider-Man” image became a hit in the mid-2010s, solidifying it as a hilarious Spidey meme, sure, but also as a highly versatile meme template. Transcending the meme community to a point where it was recreated in live-action by OG Hollywood Spider-Man, Tobey Maguire, Amazing Spider-Man, Andrew Garfield, and MCU Spider-Man, Tom Holland, during the multiversal madness that was Spider-Man: No Way Home, this meme has always been ripe for the cosplay pickings,
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