Joker and Peter Parker Dancing

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Joker and Peter Parker Dancing refers to a still image of Joker from 2019 film of the same name dancing on street stairs, with 2007 film Spider-Man 3 character Peter Parker photoshopped dancing next to him. In early September 2019, the format gained significant spread on Reddit as a reaction image.

Origin

On July 23rd, 2019, a set of three promotional photos for 2019 film Joker were released. One of the photos showed titular character Joker, portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix, dancing on street stairs in a clown outfit (shown below, left).^[1] On August 27th, 2019, a set of posters for the film, including a poster in which Joker is shown dancing on the stairs (shown below, right), was released.^[2]

On August 28th, Twitter account @TheTopComics posted an edited version of the poster in which Emo Peter Parker from 2007 film Spider-Man 3 had been added in (shown below, left).^[3] The poster gained over 890 retweets and 5,800 likes in one week. On August 31st, 2019, Twitter user @rahalarts posted a similar edit of the promotional image, gaining over 140 retweets and 370 likes in the same period (shown below, right).^[4]

Spread

On September 1st and 2nd artist @Bosslogic posted two notable edits of the promotional photograph which gained over 6,900 and 2,200 likes in one week, respectively (shown below, left and right).^[5]^[6]

On September 3rd, 2019, Redditor belfagoor posted a meme based on the image of Joker and Peter Parker dancing which gained over 43,400 upvotes in /r/dankmemes subreddit in three days (shown below).^[7]

In the following hours, the format gained significant spread on Reddit, with multiple notable examples posted to /r/memes, /r/dankmemes and other major meme communities on the websites. On September 3rd, 2019, Redditor OG-Dreadful posted an HD version of the format to /r/MemeTemplatesOfficial subreddit, gaining 4,000 upvotes in two days.^[8]