An Animated Cat Singing The iPhone Ringtone Became A Meme
Fans were excited to finally see The Batman when it came out on Friday, but many were left a little stunned to find out that the main antagonist, the Riddler, had only 500 followers on the in-universe Gotham social media site, yet still managed to gather a devoted loyal following and get a video with over 13 million views.
There’s a line in THE BATMAN where they reveal The Riddler has “over 500” online followers like that’s a lot.
— Lance St. Laurent (@LanceStLaurent) March 6, 2022
Largely on Twitter over the weekend, people were a bit taken aback at that lowly 500 follower count, mostly because it's seen as something that isn't hard to attain on a social site like Twitter if you just make some content and post daily. As a result, roasting the Riddler for his tiny following in The Batman quickly became one of the breakout memes of the film shortly after release, alongside many others featuring the star Robert Pattinson trending online.
thinking about how one of the riddler's videos got 13 million views but he only had 500 followers
— kelsey weekman (@kelsaywhat) March 4, 2022
the riddler on live explaining his plans to his 500 followers pic.twitter.com/bIg35hvPCh
— n@t (@apologygirl43) March 6, 2022
The Riddler when he posts a TikTok to his 500 followers pic.twitter.com/6BWDKAHwSh
— Michael Cera Huckabee Sanders (@RobertJuniorJr) March 6, 2022
As the jokes and posts continued to spread, it then became a viral trend on Twitter to retweet or post if you had more followers than the Riddler and what it would be like to ratio the Riddler.
retweet if you have more followers than the riddler pic.twitter.com/mFkYmGu7Es
— by landee🏴 (@bylandee) March 6, 2022
retweet if you have more followers than The Riddler pic.twitter.com/BZ0emA0AWz
— Jb‼️ (@rowjefstan) March 1, 2022
me when they said the riddler had “over 500 followers” knowing i have almost a thousand pic.twitter.com/TmhTbQOIIs
— plusle ⚡️ (@yung_shark) March 6, 2022
When they said The Riddler had "over 500 followers" like that was numbers or something pic.twitter.com/SXQG2HV9Eq
— Ava (@lady_horseteeth) March 6, 2022
Memes referencing The Batman have been increasing since its release this past weekend, so there will almost surely be more to come.
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