I’m Something of a Scientist Myself

I’m something of a scientist myself is a popular quote turned image macro, from the 2002 Spider-Man movie.

Online the image macro is used as a punchline to memes about someone’s trivial scientific knowledge.

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Spider-Man was premiered in the US on May 3^rd, 2002.

One of the scenes presents Norman Osborn (played by Willem Dafoe) meeting the protagonist, Peter Parker (portrayed by Toby MacGuire).

The first case of the image macro showed up on 4chan on October 25^th, 2016.

The format would appear on Reddit in 2017, first on the r/raimimemes subreddit, then on various other subreddits.

By the end of 2017, “I’m something of a scientist myself” would appear on sites like Imgur, Facebook, Tumblr as well as Instagram.

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