On March 8th, 2020, Facebook user Raven Perez posted an edit in which Raphael was edited to say "Cowabummer!" (shown below), a portmanteau of Michelangelo's catchphrase "Cowabunga" and "bummer." The post received over 280 reactions and 3,100 shares in two months. Prior to March 2020, the format maintained moderate popularity online with a number of viral posts on Instagram and Reddit. For example, a December 14th, 2019, reupload by Instagram user memesbutspicy gained over 35,400 views and 7,000 likes in six months. On December 5th, 2019, Instagram and iFunny user blazie (blaziee) posted a video edit in which Raphael rapped "My Nigga" by YG (shown below), with the edit receiving viral spread online in the following days. A December 3rd edit by Redditor Gangspacito received over 8,100 upvotes in /r/ComedyNecrophilia. On November 23rd, Redditor ItsAesthetical posted the earliest known recaption of the edit, gaining 60 upvotes in /r/okbuddyretard in six months. Starting in early December 2019, the "Can you draw them farting" edit received viral spread online, with multiple viral reposts on Reddit, iFunny and Instagram. On November 19th, 2019, Redditor Kabelcan made the earliest found repost of the image in /r/iamveryrandom (shown below, right). However, the comic did not see use as a meme format until in November 2019 an unknown user posted an edit in which a speech bubble reading "Can you draw them farting" was added as Raphael's response. On March 22nd, 2018, Imgur user thegentilewookie posted an Infinity War Is The Most Ambitious Crossover Event In History meme using the image, with the post gaining over 1,800 points and 119,200 views in two years (shown below, left).
On November 11th, 2017, an unknown Redditor posted the panel to /r/TwoBestFreindsPlay subreddit, writing "Injustice 2 character pack 3 new intros are weird." The post gained over 550 upvotes in six months. For example, prior to September 6th, 2016, Tumblr user gotitforcheap posted a photograph of the panel, with the post gaining over 53,500 likes and reblogs in three years. Following the release of the issue, the panel has been widely circulated online with multiple posts on Reddit, Tumblr and other sites.