It Was Me, Barry!

2010copypastasemi-active

Published September 2, 2026

It Was Me, Barry! / Zoomposting is a copypasta and video meme built around a Flash: Rebirth panel where villain Zoom brags about personally causing every bad thing in Barry Allen's life. The joke first showed up as an anonymous 4chan post in February 2010, then slowly picked up steam for a decade before a 2020 Twitter voice-over blew it up into a full-blown video format.

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Overview

The format takes Zoom's original monologue and swaps in petty, absurd, or crude misfortunes that Zoom takes credit for ruining5. Common text posts imagine Zoom running at super-speed to knock over a drink, ruin an intimate moment, or mess with someone's food. The core joke is that a supervillain would waste god-tier powers on humiliating micro-crimes instead of world-ending schemes.

Video versions pair Zoom footage, usually from the animated film Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, with a spoken 'It was me, Barry' confession delivered in a smug drawl2. Text posts on 4chan and Reddit stick closer to the comic panel's cadence, opening with 'Remember when...' and closing with the title line3.

Origin & Background

Platform
4chan (origin) / Twitter and YouTube (viral spread)
Creator
Anonymous
Date
2010

DC Comics ran the six-issue Flash: Rebirth series from April 2009 through February 2010, and one scene had Eobard Thawne, also known as Zoom or Reverse-Flash, confessing to a lifetime of sabotage against Barry Allen, including his mother's murder5. The over-the-top villainy read as unintentionally funny to a lot of comic readers.

An anonymous user on 4chan's /co/ board wrote the earliest known It Was Me, Barry! parody on February 8, 2010, applying the same 'it was me, Barry' structure to a small everyday indignity. The original post has been lost, but the joke stuck around on the board for years.

How It Spread

On June 27, 2014, an anonymous /co/ user opened a thread titled 'Zoom is a dick' with a new parody, and the reply chain filled with variations that pushed the joke deeper into 4chan comic culture. Redditor u/pump_dragon later screenshotted highlights from that thread onto r/FlashTV on December 6, 2014, where the compilation pulled over 250 upvotes5.

The breakout hit on June 14, 2020, when Twitter user @viewtifulval uploaded a voice-over clip narrating a Zoom confession about super-speed sabotage during a teenage makeout, which passed 33,700 likes and 13,000 retweets1. Three days later, YouTuber kingozebras synced that audio to a Flashpoint Paradox scene and cleared 1.2 million views2. On July 12, 2020, YouTuber Radical Larry read a batch of fresh It Was Me, Barry! parodies aloud for another 170,000 views3.

By early 2021, the Zoomposting copypasta had spread past comic communities into other fan spaces on Reddit, with posters using Zoom to jokingly claim credit for random misfortunes4.

How to Use This Meme

Write a memory of some small embarrassment, gross moment, or piece of bad luck in the second person ('Remember when you...'), then reveal at the end that Zoom secretly engineered it at super-speed, closing with 'It was me, Barry.' Video versions typically dub that confession over Zoom footage from Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox.

Frequently Asked Questions

It Was Me, Barry!

2010copypastasemi-active

Published September 2, 2026

It Was Me, Barry! / Zoomposting is a copypasta and video meme built around a Flash: Rebirth panel where villain Zoom brags about personally causing every bad thing in Barry Allen's life. The joke first showed up as an anonymous 4chan post in February 2010, then slowly picked up steam for a decade before a 2020 Twitter voice-over blew it up into a full-blown video format.

copypasta memes dc comics memes villain memes 4chan memes delayed virality memes

Overview

The format takes Zoom's original monologue and swaps in petty, absurd, or crude misfortunes that Zoom takes credit for ruining5. Common text posts imagine Zoom running at super-speed to knock over a drink, ruin an intimate moment, or mess with someone's food. The core joke is that a supervillain would waste god-tier powers on humiliating micro-crimes instead of world-ending schemes.

Video versions pair Zoom footage, usually from the animated film Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, with a spoken 'It was me, Barry' confession delivered in a smug drawl2. Text posts on 4chan and Reddit stick closer to the comic panel's cadence, opening with 'Remember when...' and closing with the title line3.

Origin & Background

Platform
4chan (origin) / Twitter and YouTube (viral spread)
Creator
Anonymous
Date
2010

DC Comics ran the six-issue Flash: Rebirth series from April 2009 through February 2010, and one scene had Eobard Thawne, also known as Zoom or Reverse-Flash, confessing to a lifetime of sabotage against Barry Allen, including his mother's murder5. The over-the-top villainy read as unintentionally funny to a lot of comic readers.

An anonymous user on 4chan's /co/ board wrote the earliest known It Was Me, Barry! parody on February 8, 2010, applying the same 'it was me, Barry' structure to a small everyday indignity. The original post has been lost, but the joke stuck around on the board for years.

How It Spread

On June 27, 2014, an anonymous /co/ user opened a thread titled 'Zoom is a dick' with a new parody, and the reply chain filled with variations that pushed the joke deeper into 4chan comic culture. Redditor u/pump_dragon later screenshotted highlights from that thread onto r/FlashTV on December 6, 2014, where the compilation pulled over 250 upvotes5.

The breakout hit on June 14, 2020, when Twitter user @viewtifulval uploaded a voice-over clip narrating a Zoom confession about super-speed sabotage during a teenage makeout, which passed 33,700 likes and 13,000 retweets1. Three days later, YouTuber kingozebras synced that audio to a Flashpoint Paradox scene and cleared 1.2 million views2. On July 12, 2020, YouTuber Radical Larry read a batch of fresh It Was Me, Barry! parodies aloud for another 170,000 views3.

By early 2021, the Zoomposting copypasta had spread past comic communities into other fan spaces on Reddit, with posters using Zoom to jokingly claim credit for random misfortunes4.

How to Use This Meme

Write a memory of some small embarrassment, gross moment, or piece of bad luck in the second person ('Remember when you...'), then reveal at the end that Zoom secretly engineered it at super-speed, closing with 'It was me, Barry.' Video versions typically dub that confession over Zoom footage from Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox.

Frequently Asked Questions