Splat Tim

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About

"Splat Tim the Woomy" (or better known as just "Splat Tim") is an image of a male Inkling from the Nintendo's third person shooter Splatoon with a distorted face, typically captioned with the expression "He Does It!"

Origin

On July 6th, 2015, Instagram user @marble.soda posted a picture of a distorted Inkling character wearing a teal shirt with a dog printed on the front (shown below, left). On July 17th, the image was reposted by Twitter user @Cloesy,^[3] along with the caption "it splat tim", a misspelling of the phrase "It's splat time" (shown below, right).

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On August 3, 2015, Twitter user @McBedtime tweeted a photoshopped box art mock-up for a "Splat Tim" game (shown below).^[4]

Images of the character subsequently began circulating on Tumblr, often featuring Splat Tim in a variety of other video games. In September, an ask blog for Splat Tim along with various other Splat Tim-themed Tumblr blogs.^[2]^[5]^[6]^[7] On January 12th, 2017, DeviantArtist^[8] Bromighty uploaded a painting of Splat Tim (shown below, left). On August 28th, Redditor tayne_peach posted a photograph of himself cosplaying as Splat Tim to /r/splatoon^[9] (shown below, right).