Spoderman / Spodermen

About

Spoderman, also known as Spodermen or Spooderman, is an MS Paint character resembling a poorly-drawn version of Spiderman. The character usually appears as a recurring character in Dolan comics or videos. Any content involving Spoderman typically contains poor grammar and spelling, and has many signature phrases such as "an fagit", and "sweg".

Origin

The earliest known mention of Spoderman appeared on the website WrestleWarehouse.com,^[7] advertisting a Spider-Man cape for kids. However, due to what the site is selling, it's can be assumed that this is a typo and not related to the meme.

The earliest known appearance of Spoderman appeared on FunnyJunk^[9] on March 29th, 2012. User evilfederation posted a picture of the character, a poorly drawn version of the Marvel comics superhero (shown below), received more than 770 upvotes and 64,000 views in five years.

Spread

In the comments to the initial FunnyJunk post, people started reposting pictures of Spoderman and adding captions. These comments included intentional misspellings of Spider-man characters, like Mary Jane and Green Goblin (shown below).

On March 30th Spoderman appeared in a Dolan comic. Posted to FunnyJunk by user koalablast,^[8] the comic is a variation on the Dolan "Everything Was Expensive" installment. In the comic (shown below), Dolan enters a science lab and comes Spoder man. The character then says, "So many spoders."

On April 12th, 2012, YouTuber ^[1] Dolan Duk uploaded "The Uncle Dolan Show Episode 1."In the episode, the characters Dolan and Gooby meets the character Spoderman. As of August 2017, the video has over 1.5 million views.

After Spoderman's appearance on The Uncle Dolan Show, search interest for the character began to increase. On July 23rd, 2012, two Spoderman YouTube channels launched. The first, Spoderman Internatiunal^[2] uploaded the video "Spoderman Theme Song" that day. The video (shown below, right) received more than 680,000 views in five years.

The other account, the verified Spoderman^[3] YouTube account has more than 329,000 subscribers and 31.6 million views as of August 2017. The account's most popular video, "Spoderman: How to Have Swag", was uploaded on January 15th, 2013. The video (shown below, right) has received more than 2.6 millions views in four-and-a-half years.

On September 9th, 2016, YouTuber Behind the Meme posted an explainer of spoderman entitled "What is spoderman? The history of the spiderman meme explained." The video (shown below) has received more than 780,000 views in less than a year.

Various Examples

Search Interest

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