While living in Georgia he worked at the Georgia Renaissance Festival as a pirate named Rusty Compass. Many girls just went to see and take pictures with him.
May 28, 2010: Marc Bernadin of io9 writes an article about possibly casting a non-white Spider-Man.
May 30, 2010: io9 commenter Rootadoo suggests Donald Glover; twitter user wittyallusion tweets about it, Donald Glover retweets. Comedy vlogger Michelle Vargas creates a facebook fanpage.
May 31, 2010: #donald4spiderman becomes the number 3 trending topic in the USA; number 2 in Canada.
June 3, 2010: The IMDB news feed finally jumps on the bandwagon, erroneously crediting Donald Glover with creating the Facebook fanpage.