About
“Splat Tim the Woomy” (or better known as just “Splat Tim”) is an image of a male Inkling from the Nintendo’s third person shooter Splatoon with a distorted face, typically captioned with the expression “He Does It!”
Origin
On July 6th, 2015, Instagram user @marble.soda posted a picture of a distorted Inkling character wearing a teal shirt with a dog printed on the front (shown below, left). On July 17th, the image was reposted by Twitter user @Cloesy,[3] along with the caption “it splat tim”, a misspelling of the phrase “It’s splat time” (shown below, right).
Spread
On August 3, 2015, Twitter user @McBedtime tweeted a photoshopped box art mock-up for a “Splat Tim” game (shown below).[4]
Images of the character subsequently began circulating on Tumblr, often featuring Splat Tim in a variety of other video games. In September, an ask blog for Splat Tim along with various other Splat Tim-themed Tumblr blogs.[2][5][6][7] On January 12th, 2017, DeviantArtist[8] Bromighty uploaded a painting of Splat Tim (shown below, left). On August 28th, Redditor tayne_peach posted a photograph of himself cosplaying as Splat Tim to /r/splatoon[9] (shown below, right).
Various Examples
Search Interest
External References
[2]Tumblr – Ask Splat Tim
[3]Twitter – @Cloesy – it splat tim
[4]Twitter – @McBedtime
[6]Tumblr – Splat Tim!
[9]Reddit – /r/splatoon