Lets Go Mets

2019Catchphrase / audio meme / reaction formatactive

Also known as: "It's About the Mets Baby · " "Love the Mets · " "LolMets"

Let's Go Mets is a 2019 audio meme from a distorted fan scream ("It's about the Mets, baby!") paired with absurd video edits, notably 1960s King Kong cartoons, channeling ironic celebration of the Mets' decades of chaos.

"Let's Go Mets" is a sports catchphrase turned ironic internet meme built around the New York Mets baseball team. Originating as a standard stadium chant, the phrase went viral through a distorted audio clip of a fan screaming "It's about the Mets, baby! Love the Mets!" that got paired with absurd video edits, most famously a 1960s King Kong cartoon. The meme thrives on the specific brand of suffering that comes with being a Mets fan, turning decades of bizarre injuries, historic collapses, and improbable chaos into a form of digital coping humor.

TL;DR

"Let's Go Mets" is a sports catchphrase turned ironic internet meme built around the New York Mets baseball team.

Overview

At its core, "Let's Go Mets" is a three-word chant you'd hear at any Mets game at Citi Field or the old Shea Stadium2. The internet stripped it of sincerity and rebuilt it as something weirder. The meme version typically features a low-quality, slightly distorted audio recording of a man screaming at full volume: "It's about the Mets, baby! Love the Mets! Get a home run, baby! Love the Mets! Let's go Mets!"4 This clip gets layered over completely unrelated videos, images, and threads as a kind of conversational flashbang4.

The visual side ranges from pixelated Mets logos to edits of King Kong vibing, Spider-Man looking defeated, or just plain text posts in lowercase with zero punctuation. The style is deliberate. Posts tend to look like something sent at 2 AM after a few beers, contrasting the grand tradition of New York baseball with internet chaos4.

The exact creator of the viral audio clip is unknown, but it sounds like a fan who'd been screaming for three hours straight and finally found a microphone4. The recording picked up traction on Twitter around 2019, with users pairing it with absurd imagery. One of the biggest early catalysts was the "King Kong" video edit. Someone took a clip from the 1960s King Kong cartoon where the giant ape is dancing and dubbed the "Love the Mets" audio over it4. It shouldn't work. It's a cartoon gorilla and a baseball chant. But the combination of the distorted audio, the earnest energy, and the complete absurdity made it stick.

A July 2019 tweet captured the vibe perfectly, posting in the voice of Spider-Man: "I am a man with somethin to say, Spida Man. And that's Let's Go Mets, Baby"1. This leaned into the fact that Peter Parker is canonically a Mets fan from Queens, a detail the internet would mine heavily in the years to come4.

Origin & Background

Platform
Twitter (audio clip), YouTube (King Kong edit)
Key People
Unknown, Unknown
Date
~2019
Year
2019

The exact creator of the viral audio clip is unknown, but it sounds like a fan who'd been screaming for three hours straight and finally found a microphone. The recording picked up traction on Twitter around 2019, with users pairing it with absurd imagery. One of the biggest early catalysts was the "King Kong" video edit. Someone took a clip from the 1960s King Kong cartoon where the giant ape is dancing and dubbed the "Love the Mets" audio over it. It shouldn't work. It's a cartoon gorilla and a baseball chant. But the combination of the distorted audio, the earnest energy, and the complete absurdity made it stick.

A July 2019 tweet captured the vibe perfectly, posting in the voice of Spider-Man: "I am a man with somethin to say, Spida Man. And that's Let's Go Mets, Baby". This leaned into the fact that Peter Parker is canonically a Mets fan from Queens, a detail the internet would mine heavily in the years to come.

How It Spread

The meme spread primarily through Twitter, where dedicated accounts began posting "Let's Go Mets" content regardless of the team's actual performance. These weren't official Mets PR accounts. They posted during the darkest hours of losing streaks. When the team was down 10-0, seeing a pixelated image of a smiling Met mascot captioned "lets go mets" became a form of gallows humor.

The "LolMets" strain of the meme ran parallel, feeding on years of genuinely strange Mets moments. The team had a history that practically generated memes on its own: outfielder Yoenis Céspedes broke his ankle stepping in a hole on his ranch while dealing with a wild boar. Bobby Bonilla Day, where the team pays a retired player over a million dollars every July 1st, became an annual internet holiday. These incidents gave the meme a bottomless supply of raw material.

The Spider-Man connection deepened when *Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse* released. The internet noticed that Peter B. Parker's defeated, down-on-his-luck energy perfectly matched the Mets fan experience. Crossovers between the depressed Peter B. Parker and the "Love the Mets" audio started circulating, reinforcing the idea that rooting for the Mets is a character trait, not just a hobby.

The meme adapted when Steve Cohen bought the Mets in 2020 for $2.4 billion, giving the team the highest payroll in baseball history. The underdog narrative got complicated. How do you meme about being lovable losers when you're spending hundreds of millions? The internet pivoted quickly. When the Mets spent big in 2023 and then sold everyone at the trade deadline, "Let's Go Mets" shifted from "we are losers" to "we have infinite money and we are still doing Mets things".

In 2024, the meme hit a surreal peak when Grimace, the purple McDonald's mascot, threw out a first pitch at Citi Field. The Mets immediately went on a winning streak, and the internet declared Grimace a good luck charm. The overlap between a fast food mascot and a baseball curse was exactly the kind of nonsense the meme thrives on.

How to Use This Meme

The "Let's Go Mets" meme is flexible by design. Common approaches include:

1

Audio edit: Take any video, especially one that has nothing to do with baseball, and overlay the "It's about the Mets, baby!" audio clip

2

Text post: Write "lets go mets" in all lowercase with no punctuation, typically in response to bad news, chaos, or a completely unrelated conversation

3

Image reaction: Pair a defeated or absurdly cheerful image with the phrase, especially during Mets losing streaks

4

Thread invasion: Drop the "Love the Mets" monologue into a serious discussion thread as a non sequitur

5

Spider-Man crossover: Use images of Peter Parker looking exhausted or defeated with Mets references

Cultural Impact

The meme crossed well beyond the baseball fanbase. People who have never watched a single inning use "Let's Go Mets" as a general expression of blind, chaotic optimism. It works in political threads, tech discussions, and personal life updates. The phrase functions as what one writer called a "conversational flashbang," disorienting everyone and shifting the energy of an entire thread.

The New York Mets themselves are one of MLB's most valuable franchises, worth an estimated $3.2 billion as of 2025. This creates an ironic backdrop: one of baseball's richest teams still generates some of the internet's most self-deprecating fan content.

The meme also reinforced the cultural link between Spider-Man and the Mets. Peter Parker's Queens origin and underdog status already made him a natural Mets fan in Marvel canon, but the internet meme community made this connection impossible to ignore.

Urban Dictionary entries for "Let's Go Mets" lean into the absurdist angle, defining the phrase in deliberately over-the-top ways that have little to do with actual baseball.

Fun Facts

The Mets were founded in 1962 as a replacement for New York's two departed National League teams, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants. The team's blue and orange colors come directly from those two teams.

The 1969 "Miracle Mets" World Series win is considered one of the biggest upsets in baseball history, which set the template for the team's "improbable things happen" identity.

The Mets' original 1962 season saw them go 40-120, the second-worst record in modern MLB history, behind only the 2024 Chicago White Sox.

The meme's characteristic style of lowercase text with no punctuation is a deliberate aesthetic choice that contrasts the formality of professional sports with internet shitposting.

People outside New York sometimes think the meme is mean-spirited, but most posters are die-hard fans. If a rival Phillies fan tries to use it, it feels wrong, like an outsider making fun of your sibling.

Derivatives & Variations

King Kong "Love the Mets" edit

A 1960s King Kong cartoon clip dubbed with the viral audio, considered the gold standard version of the meme[4]

Spider-Man / Peter B. Parker edits

Crossovers using the depressed *Into the Spider-Verse* version of Peter Parker paired with Mets audio or text[4]

Grimace Rally memes

Content celebrating the Mets' winning streak after Grimace's 2024 first pitch appearance[4]

Bobby Bonilla Day posts

Annual July 1st content mocking the deferred payment contract, often paired with "Let's Go Mets" energy[4]

LolMets compilations

Collections of genuinely bizarre Mets moments (injuries, collapses, strange decisions) presented as evidence of a cursed franchise[4]

Frequently Asked Questions

Lets Go Mets

2019Catchphrase / audio meme / reaction formatactive

Also known as: "It's About the Mets Baby · " "Love the Mets · " "LolMets"

Let's Go Mets is a 2019 audio meme from a distorted fan scream ("It's about the Mets, baby!") paired with absurd video edits, notably 1960s King Kong cartoons, channeling ironic celebration of the Mets' decades of chaos.

"Let's Go Mets" is a sports catchphrase turned ironic internet meme built around the New York Mets baseball team. Originating as a standard stadium chant, the phrase went viral through a distorted audio clip of a fan screaming "It's about the Mets, baby! Love the Mets!" that got paired with absurd video edits, most famously a 1960s King Kong cartoon. The meme thrives on the specific brand of suffering that comes with being a Mets fan, turning decades of bizarre injuries, historic collapses, and improbable chaos into a form of digital coping humor.

TL;DR

"Let's Go Mets" is a sports catchphrase turned ironic internet meme built around the New York Mets baseball team.

Overview

At its core, "Let's Go Mets" is a three-word chant you'd hear at any Mets game at Citi Field or the old Shea Stadium. The internet stripped it of sincerity and rebuilt it as something weirder. The meme version typically features a low-quality, slightly distorted audio recording of a man screaming at full volume: "It's about the Mets, baby! Love the Mets! Get a home run, baby! Love the Mets! Let's go Mets!" This clip gets layered over completely unrelated videos, images, and threads as a kind of conversational flashbang.

The visual side ranges from pixelated Mets logos to edits of King Kong vibing, Spider-Man looking defeated, or just plain text posts in lowercase with zero punctuation. The style is deliberate. Posts tend to look like something sent at 2 AM after a few beers, contrasting the grand tradition of New York baseball with internet chaos.

The exact creator of the viral audio clip is unknown, but it sounds like a fan who'd been screaming for three hours straight and finally found a microphone. The recording picked up traction on Twitter around 2019, with users pairing it with absurd imagery. One of the biggest early catalysts was the "King Kong" video edit. Someone took a clip from the 1960s King Kong cartoon where the giant ape is dancing and dubbed the "Love the Mets" audio over it. It shouldn't work. It's a cartoon gorilla and a baseball chant. But the combination of the distorted audio, the earnest energy, and the complete absurdity made it stick.

A July 2019 tweet captured the vibe perfectly, posting in the voice of Spider-Man: "I am a man with somethin to say, Spida Man. And that's Let's Go Mets, Baby". This leaned into the fact that Peter Parker is canonically a Mets fan from Queens, a detail the internet would mine heavily in the years to come.

Origin & Background

Platform
Twitter (audio clip), YouTube (King Kong edit)
Key People
Unknown, Unknown
Date
~2019
Year
2019

The exact creator of the viral audio clip is unknown, but it sounds like a fan who'd been screaming for three hours straight and finally found a microphone. The recording picked up traction on Twitter around 2019, with users pairing it with absurd imagery. One of the biggest early catalysts was the "King Kong" video edit. Someone took a clip from the 1960s King Kong cartoon where the giant ape is dancing and dubbed the "Love the Mets" audio over it. It shouldn't work. It's a cartoon gorilla and a baseball chant. But the combination of the distorted audio, the earnest energy, and the complete absurdity made it stick.

A July 2019 tweet captured the vibe perfectly, posting in the voice of Spider-Man: "I am a man with somethin to say, Spida Man. And that's Let's Go Mets, Baby". This leaned into the fact that Peter Parker is canonically a Mets fan from Queens, a detail the internet would mine heavily in the years to come.

How It Spread

The meme spread primarily through Twitter, where dedicated accounts began posting "Let's Go Mets" content regardless of the team's actual performance. These weren't official Mets PR accounts. They posted during the darkest hours of losing streaks. When the team was down 10-0, seeing a pixelated image of a smiling Met mascot captioned "lets go mets" became a form of gallows humor.

The "LolMets" strain of the meme ran parallel, feeding on years of genuinely strange Mets moments. The team had a history that practically generated memes on its own: outfielder Yoenis Céspedes broke his ankle stepping in a hole on his ranch while dealing with a wild boar. Bobby Bonilla Day, where the team pays a retired player over a million dollars every July 1st, became an annual internet holiday. These incidents gave the meme a bottomless supply of raw material.

The Spider-Man connection deepened when *Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse* released. The internet noticed that Peter B. Parker's defeated, down-on-his-luck energy perfectly matched the Mets fan experience. Crossovers between the depressed Peter B. Parker and the "Love the Mets" audio started circulating, reinforcing the idea that rooting for the Mets is a character trait, not just a hobby.

The meme adapted when Steve Cohen bought the Mets in 2020 for $2.4 billion, giving the team the highest payroll in baseball history. The underdog narrative got complicated. How do you meme about being lovable losers when you're spending hundreds of millions? The internet pivoted quickly. When the Mets spent big in 2023 and then sold everyone at the trade deadline, "Let's Go Mets" shifted from "we are losers" to "we have infinite money and we are still doing Mets things".

In 2024, the meme hit a surreal peak when Grimace, the purple McDonald's mascot, threw out a first pitch at Citi Field. The Mets immediately went on a winning streak, and the internet declared Grimace a good luck charm. The overlap between a fast food mascot and a baseball curse was exactly the kind of nonsense the meme thrives on.

How to Use This Meme

The "Let's Go Mets" meme is flexible by design. Common approaches include:

1

Audio edit: Take any video, especially one that has nothing to do with baseball, and overlay the "It's about the Mets, baby!" audio clip

2

Text post: Write "lets go mets" in all lowercase with no punctuation, typically in response to bad news, chaos, or a completely unrelated conversation

3

Image reaction: Pair a defeated or absurdly cheerful image with the phrase, especially during Mets losing streaks

4

Thread invasion: Drop the "Love the Mets" monologue into a serious discussion thread as a non sequitur

5

Spider-Man crossover: Use images of Peter Parker looking exhausted or defeated with Mets references

Cultural Impact

The meme crossed well beyond the baseball fanbase. People who have never watched a single inning use "Let's Go Mets" as a general expression of blind, chaotic optimism. It works in political threads, tech discussions, and personal life updates. The phrase functions as what one writer called a "conversational flashbang," disorienting everyone and shifting the energy of an entire thread.

The New York Mets themselves are one of MLB's most valuable franchises, worth an estimated $3.2 billion as of 2025. This creates an ironic backdrop: one of baseball's richest teams still generates some of the internet's most self-deprecating fan content.

The meme also reinforced the cultural link between Spider-Man and the Mets. Peter Parker's Queens origin and underdog status already made him a natural Mets fan in Marvel canon, but the internet meme community made this connection impossible to ignore.

Urban Dictionary entries for "Let's Go Mets" lean into the absurdist angle, defining the phrase in deliberately over-the-top ways that have little to do with actual baseball.

Fun Facts

The Mets were founded in 1962 as a replacement for New York's two departed National League teams, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants. The team's blue and orange colors come directly from those two teams.

The 1969 "Miracle Mets" World Series win is considered one of the biggest upsets in baseball history, which set the template for the team's "improbable things happen" identity.

The Mets' original 1962 season saw them go 40-120, the second-worst record in modern MLB history, behind only the 2024 Chicago White Sox.

The meme's characteristic style of lowercase text with no punctuation is a deliberate aesthetic choice that contrasts the formality of professional sports with internet shitposting.

People outside New York sometimes think the meme is mean-spirited, but most posters are die-hard fans. If a rival Phillies fan tries to use it, it feels wrong, like an outsider making fun of your sibling.

Derivatives & Variations

King Kong "Love the Mets" edit

A 1960s King Kong cartoon clip dubbed with the viral audio, considered the gold standard version of the meme[4]

Spider-Man / Peter B. Parker edits

Crossovers using the depressed *Into the Spider-Verse* version of Peter Parker paired with Mets audio or text[4]

Grimace Rally memes

Content celebrating the Mets' winning streak after Grimace's 2024 first pitch appearance[4]

Bobby Bonilla Day posts

Annual July 1st content mocking the deferred payment contract, often paired with "Let's Go Mets" energy[4]

LolMets compilations

Collections of genuinely bizarre Mets moments (injuries, collapses, strange decisions) presented as evidence of a cursed franchise[4]

Frequently Asked Questions