What Are You Gonna Do With That Big Bat?

About

What Are You Gonna Do With That Big Bat?, continued Gonna hit me? Better make it count. Better make it hurt. Better kill me in one shot, refers to a voiced-over image of an anthropomorphic baseball reading the quote in a distorted, demonic-sounding cadence. The image alongside the quote was originally tweeted in 2017 and first voiced over in 2018, becoming a popular catchphrase on image macros over the next three years.

Origin

On an unknown date in 2017, the now-deleted Twitter account @MisterBaseball5 posted an image macro showing an anthropomorphic baseball under a quote telling the reader to hit them hard and make it count, telling them they better kill them in one shot (shown below).

On March 8th, 2018, YouTuber^[1] chovythebear posted a voiced-over version of the image, garnering over 14,000 views in three years (shown below).

Spread

Over the course of the next two years, the meme was shared across social media a number of times, both in image form and in voice-over video form.

On July 26th, 2020, YouTuber Uncle Frozen Balloon posted a new voiceover of the image in which the quote is read in a demonic voice, garnering over 35,000 views in a year (shown below).

On the same date, Instagram^[2] user @_kingorange shared the demonically voiced version of the meme, garnering over 320,000 views and 33,000 likes in a year. The video was shared numerous times across social media in the following year, inspiring a number of posts referencing it, attaching the phrase to new images (example shown below).^[4]

On May 24th, 2021, Instagram^[3] user @salad.snake posted the demonic version of the meme, garnering over 335,000 views and 69,000 likes in two weeks.

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