Miles Morales Says Hey

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Miles Morales Says Hey or Miles Morales Flirting refers to a memorable scene from 2018 animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse in which the protagonist Miles Morales attempts to flirt with a schoolmate by placing his hand on her shoulder and saying "Hey". In December 2018, the scene was featured in various remix videos and was adopted for an exploitable comic series.

Origin

On December 13th, 2018, Sony Movies SA^[1] posted a special clip from its upcoming animated movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. In the scene, main protagonist Miles Morales makes an unsuccessful pass at his schoolmate Gwen Stacy by placing his hand on her shoulder and saying "Hey".

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On December 17th, 2018, iFunny user whipmynip^[2] uploaded a screenshot of a three-panel meme based on the scene in which Miles Morales was replaced by Bee-Movie character Barry B. Benson (shown below, left). The post gained over 73,000 likes in one month. On December 18th, 2018, SuperHeroHype^[3] forum user Kane52630 posted a two-panel meme based on the scene (shown below, right). It is unclear whether Kane52630 was the original creator of the image.

On December 21st, Twitter^[4] user @Toasty_Nerd posted a video remix of the scene. The post gained over 9,000 retweets in one month.

On the same day, Memedroid^[5] user TheFiveO5050 posted three-panel meme which received over 1,400 points in one month. On December 23rd, Redditor^[6] Sqoof posted another version of the meme, presumably created by Redditor Lem1697, to /r/dankmemes subreddit. The post gained over 40,100 upvotes in one month.

Following the initial posts, numerous image and video versions of the meme were posted on several platforms, including Reddit^[7], Instagram^[8], Twitter^[9] and YouTube^[10].