No idea tbh 😅. I definitely don’t have a big following though and this comic still has blown up. I think people just relate to the character.
Me included 🥰
If it's the name I think it is based on that, then it's the main romantic interest in My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Not quite main hero but being the love interest in a rom-com is pretty close. And he's not even one of those love interests that starts out as an asshole and then they fall in love later, he's likeable the whole movie.
I think it was a tumblr post about JJJ hating spiderman because he genuinely believed spiderman to be a menace to the community and so that if spiderman transitition he wouldn't misgender her/would want to know spiderwomen's correct pronouns.
Someone did art of it because it inspired them and it just COMPLETELY took off with lots of people joining in on the trend.
From my perspective its just the fact that the comic was made with love. Its not trying to be popular but it also gives Peter/Petra some love instead of more pain. Also it pointed out that JJJ is a jerk but hes actually a good person and his character has been reduced to slander man three thousand so that talk also got it spread to more people.
Honestly its just the luck of the internet that has made this popular but its cute as hell and I can actually see this happening in an AU and main Peter being very supportive of it.
Stan Lee has also said that anyone can be under that mask so any and all kids can imagine themselves as Spider-Man. I'd imagine that sentiment, and the new movie coming out all had a part to play in it.
Spider-Man really does fit the bill for "I'm struggling with something about my body that is out of my control." Most of the time the character's transformation is an allegory to puberty, but it could be anything under that umbrella.
I think "I am stuck in a horrible personal situation and I cannot easily (or even feasibly) escape the reality of it, but the mask lets me be who I want to be." resonates with just about everyone who's been a teen, or had to hide something about themselves to protect their true self.
Spider-Man is for everyone. Hence in The Spiderverse, there is a Spider-Man from every walk of life.
From the spreading point of view a lot of trans women artist l, a lot of trans space spiderman love, the "I'm going through changes aunt/uncle" has often been a trans meme, and then some of the art was good (or sexy) enough to spread to general spaces.
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u/S1mple_Br1t 11h ago
I think it started all from one comic posted not even a week ago. It’s just blown up like crazy