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Due to its lackluster box office performance and dour critical reception, Morbius inspired various internet memes.[124] Polygon wrote that the film became "a kind of collective internet hate watch",[125] with fans sharing meme shitposts which ironically praised it.[124][126][127][128][129] Following its release, the hashtag #MorbiusSweep, which jokingly claimed Morbius was the most financially and critically successful film of all time, began trending.[130] Claims included the film becoming the first to sell over a trillion tickets[131] and receiving an impossible 200% approval from Rotten Tomatoes.[132]
The film received a resurgence in internet memes following its release to video on demand, with many involving the fake[133][134] Morbius catchphrase "it's Morbin' time" [135][136][137], a play on the Power Rangers catchphrase "it's Morphin' time".[138] Users on the film's official Discord server call themselves "Morbheads",[131] and users engaged in "Morbin'" on various Discord servers by distributing pirated copies.[139] A large number of channels on the live-streaming service Twitch began illegally hosting the entire film on repeat;[137][140] one channel, Morbius247, was banned after acquiring thousands of followers.[141] Morbius piracy spread to other platforms, including Twitter, where the entire film was posted in a series of 52 two-minute long videos, and Tumblr, where it was compressed into a tiny GIF file.[125]
