Slammo Pose

About

Slammo Pose is a pose where a character stands in a rear-facing position with their head turned to look over their shoulder and their hips slanted to accentuate their posterior. The pose was popularized by artist Slammo on Twitter in September 2022. That November, Slammo then announced the Slammo Pose Challenge, challenging artists to draw characters in the Slammo pose and use the hashtag "#slammopose," inspiring numerous drawings of characters doing the stance.

Origin

Artist Slammo, known as @slammo12 on Twitter and slammathejamma on Instagram, often draws characters in a rear-facing pose that accentuates the character's posterior. Examples of characters striking the pose can be seen in a June 29th, 2022, Instagram^[1] post sharing a drawing of Asuka, Rei and Mari from Evangelion (shown below) and a September 19th post to Twitter^[2] sharing a drawing of Rebecca from Edgerunners.

On September 19th, 2022, Twitter^[3] user @AaronBissessar commented under the Rebecca artwork, "Da slammo patented pose😂." On September 23rd, @slammo12 posted an image to Twitter^[4] compiling various characters in the pose, writing, "the slammo pose! maybe i should make it a challenge?" garnering over 25,000 likes and 2,400 retweets in three months. This is the first time the pose was officially given a name.

Spread

Artists began drawing characters in the Slammo pose over the following months. For example, on November 28th, 2022, Twitter^[5] user @amarilloarts_ posted a 3D rendering of a character in the pose, using the hashtag "#slammopose," garnering over 1,800 likes in a week. On November 29th, @slammo12 reposted the compilation art to Twitter,^[6] garnering over 25,000 likes in a week.

On December 1st, 2022, the artist then posted an image to Twitter^[7] announcing the "Slammo pose challenge," encouraging artists to share drawings of characters in the post under the hashtag "#slammopose," garnering over 3,500 likes in a week (shown below).

The challenge inspired numerous artists to post drawings of characters in the Slammo pose. On December 2nd, Twitter^[8][9] users @mushbedroom and @aywakutakuay posted versions of the challenge that garnered over 450 and 670 likes respectively in six days (shown below, left and right). On December 3rd, Twitter^[10] user @Dide6an posted a version of the trend that garnered over 12,000 likes in five days.

That same day, Twitter^[11] user @lokigunART posted a drawing of Cammy from Street Fighter doing the Slammo pose, garnering over 1,000 likes in five days (shown below).

Various Examples

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