Despacito Spider

About

Despacito Spider is a Roblox character, particularly seen in Robloxian Highschool, featuring two heads on top of each other with spider's legs attached. The character is generally named "Despacito" after the song by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, or features a reference to the song. In most of the edits, the character is depicted as threatening.

Origin

The "Despacito Spider" is a creation known in Roblox as the "Bighead Pill"^[1] with spider legs attached. The earliest known post to show the character with "Despacito" appeared December 31st, 2017 on Imgur ^[2] (shown below).

Spread

Over the following few months, the character began spreading in the Roblox community. On January 21st, 2018, Twitter user @BxrkTM drew the image (shown below, left). On February 27th, it appeared in /r/RobloxMemes, where it gained 69 points.^[3] The following day, the spider was submitted to /r/cursedimages, where it gained 57 points.^[4] On March 24th, Roblox player Stratus Studios posted art of the character making it look more threatening (shown below, right).

The character became popular on the Roblox shitposting subreddit /r/GoCommitDie, where several edits of the character gained thousands of points. For example, a post by Tornado873 on June 29th gained over 1,700 points (shown below, left). Another by user Zenith386 posted July 4th also gained over 1,700 points (shown below, right).

On August 1st, 2018, "Despacito Spider" was added to Urban Dictionary ^[5] (shown below).

On September 7th, the creators of Robloxian Highschool appeared to acknowledge the popularity of the character when they made the spider the logo of Robloxian Highschool (shown below).

Various Examples

Search Interest

External References