Perhaps it’s the hype for the new Spider-Man film There is no way home butthere’s a lot of nostalgia around the original Spidey trilogy, which was released in the 2000s.
The trailer for the new film starring Tobey Maguire and Zendaya dropped a few weeks back but if you’ve spent any time on the internet in the past few days you’ll have seen an image from the original 2002 film starring Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst doing the rounds as a meme.
The image shows Dunst as Mary Jane, looking behind her while she answers her boss at the diner where they work. He had just interrupted a conversation between Dunst and Peter Parker, her love interest. Spider-Man.
However, the scene has been reinterpreted by those funny folks on the internet who have instead flipped the scene to make it appear that Mary Jane is defending Peter’s choices, who does, in all fairness, look quite forlorn and sad in the image.
For extra hilarity, some have replaced Peter with famous faces or other moments from pop-cultural history.
Similar to the viral Anakin Skywalker and Padme Star Wars scene earlier this year, the moment was taken out of context. But who needs context when memes are so hilarious?