Only In Gotham

Tropes and genres
Synonym(s)	onlyingotham, gotham memes
Related tropes/genres	Gotham TikTok
Related articles on Fanlore.

Only In Gotham is a tag used for Batman social media fanworks, especially outsider POV works, which portray the daily life of Gothamites from the perspectives of people living in Gotham and posting to their social media accounts. Some specific forms exist, such as Gotham TikTok, but these kinds of works can be found across many platforms. Tumblr posts frequently feature popular meme templates with text relevant to Gotham, sometimes even with an image redesigned to feature DC characters, and/or doctored tweets, particularly by canon characters, but a variety of forms of onlyingotham posts can be found. The community can also include dedicated roleplay blogs, usually of original characters or minor characters that serve as blank slates.

The trend may have first been popularized by a series of posts of "Gotham memes" made in 2019, one of which has more than 47,000 notes as of October 2024.

Example Fanworks

Tumblr

• Okay, hear me out: Gotham city memes by ambrosius-faust, reblog by lovepsychothefirst (August 5, 2019)
• okay, but memes from the perspective of Gotham citizens are like,,, my favourite thing by batarangsoundsdumb (March 4, 2021)
• Gotham Memes Pt. 2 by writer-room (December 24, 2022)

AO3

• #OnlyInGotham by Eat0crow (October 15, 2019)
• #SoftRobin by mistolez (January 21, 2021)
• #trending by phis_corner (September 17, 2021)
• Gotham Online by notjuli (December 4, 2023)
• r/onlyingotham by amurderofmagpies (December 20, 2023)
• Buzzfeed of Gotham by alphaofallcats (March 11, 2024)

Fannish Links

• only in gotham tag on Tumblr
• gotham memes related tag on Tumblr
• Tumblr: hashtagonlyingotham tag on AO3