Do You Have the Slightest Idea How Little That Narrows It Down?

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Do You Have the Slightest Idea How Little That Narrows It Down? refers to a quote uttered by the Batman Beyond animated series character Blight upon encountering Batman. Online, an image macro based on the scene gained popularity in memes about situations in which provided information does not help narrow down possible solutions.

Origin

On May 28th, 1999, episode 13 "Ascension" of the first season of Batman Beyond animated series premiered.^[1] In one scene of the episode, Batman (Terry McGinnis) opposes villain Blight, accusing him of killing his father. To this, Blight responds that this piece of information does not help him figure out the identity of Batman.

- Who are you?
- You really want to know?
- Yes!
- You killed my father.
- Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

On February 6th, 2020, Twitter^[2] user @Jaoaoaoaoao tweeted three captioned images from the scene, with the tweet garnering over 22,900 retweets and 97,700 likes in two weeks (tweet and images shown below). A February 10th, 2020, Imgur^[3] repost of the images received additional 4,100 points and 126,100 views.

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On February 12th, 2020, Redditor^[4] runic7_ posted a three-panel image based on the post to /r/memes subreddit, where it gained over 15,100 upvotes prior to being removed (shown below, left). On the same day, Redditor^[5] dr_tst posted the first known edit of the image to /r/PrequelMemes, gaining over 51,900 upvotes (shown below, right).

Starting on February 12th, the format saw a significant spread on Reddit. For example, a February 12th post by Redditor^[6] MrJokster received over 8,700 upvotes in the /r/dndmemes subreddit. A February 13th, 2020, post by Redditor^[7] Mini_Knight received over 5,100 upvotes in /r/Animemes.

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