Peter B. Parker Sucking Fingers — Peter B. Parker sucking his fingers at a diner booth in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Peter B. Parker Sucking Fingers

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Published September 21, 2026

Peter B. Parker Sucking Fingers is an image macro pulled from a scene in the 2018 animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, in which the character licks burger grease off his fingers in a diner. Sitting dormant for six months after the trailer dropped, the still resurfaced on Twitter in late December 2018 and became a go-to reaction template for gross-out captions across Twitter, Instagram, and Reddit.

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Overview

The format works as a reaction image, where the still frame of a rumpled Peter B. Parker slowly sucking his fingers is paired with a caption describing something gross the poster is pretending to savor1. The visual is off-putting on its own, so the joke depends on stacking that discomfort against a first-person confession, usually bathroom, food, or hygiene humor3.

Alongside the still, video remixers on Instagram looped the burger beat or spliced it against unrelated clips to sharpen the gross-out timing3. The Spider-Verse film2 gave the scene enough recognition that captions rarely needed to explain the source, which helped the exploitable travel on Twitter, Instagram, and Reddit without extra context3.

Origin & Background

Platform
YouTube (source scene) / Twitter (meme spread)
Date
2018

The scene is from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, an animated Sony Pictures film released in December 20182. Its first trailer went up on YouTube on June 6, 2018, and included a beat in a diner where a scruffy Peter B. Parker eats a cheeseburger and licks the grease off his fingers afterwards1. The moment sat unused as a meme for roughly six months.

Meme use kicked off on December 26, 2018, when a Twitter user posted a still from the scene captioned 'me when I get shit on my fingers while wiping my ass,' the earliest documented repost of the image as an exploitable3.

How It Spread

In the days after the December 26 Twitter post, the joke was reposted across Twitter, iFunny, and Instagram3. Instagram account salad.snake shared its own version of the still on December 26, 2018, and the post pulled in more than 40,300 likes over the following four months3.

Video remixes started appearing on Instagram in late December 2018. Accounts thermalblitz and elmemexicano cut their own edits of the scene, with thermalblitz posting on December 29, 20183. Through early 2019, the still and the clip kept surfacing on Instagram and Reddit, though never at the scale of Spider-Verse's other viral moments like the 'What's up danger' beat3.

Timeline

2018-06-06

Sony Pictures uploads the first Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse trailer to YouTube, teasing the diner scene where Peter B. Parker sucks burger grease off his fingers[1].

2018-12-14

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse opens in U.S. theaters, giving the diner scene wider audience recognition[2].

2018-12-26

A Twitter user posts the earliest documented reaction-image version of the still, captioned about wiping[3].

2018-12-26

Instagram account salad.snake reposts the still, eventually pulling more than 40,300 likes over four months[3].

2018-12-29

Instagram creator thermalblitz posts a video remix of the diner scene, one of the earliest edits of the format[3].

How to Use This Meme

Typical use pairs the still with a first-person caption describing a moment of disgust the poster is pretending to enjoy, often bathroom, food, or hygiene humor3. Remix versions loop the diner clip against unrelated audio or splice it onto other footage to punch up the gross-out timing3.

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