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Where did the incredible gassy meme come from

Checked on November 20, 2025
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Executive summary

The "Incredible Gassy" meme began as a commissioned parody character — a fart-focused pastiche of Mr. Incredible created by artist Bobo Comics around 2021 — and evolved into a broader internet fixture through reposts and remixes, including a spike of explicit AI edits in 2025 called "Incredible Gassy Viggle AI" [1]. Know Your Meme documents the character's commissioning, early reposting (a cropped SFW upload in 2021), and the 2025 wave of Viggle AI rotoscoped videos that inserted real people into the explicit animation [1].

1. Origins: a commissioned parody that went viral

Incredible Gassy was not an official studio creation but a parody likely commissioned from artist Bobo Comics in or around 2021; the character is a lime-green, morbidly obese take on Mr. Incredible whose "superpower" is flatulence, and that commissioned work served as the base material for later memes [1]. A cropped, SFW version of the animation was posted on YouTube in June 2021, which helped seed the character into meme circuits [1].

2. How the meme spread through reposts and subcultures

After the original commission, Incredible Gassy circulated in niche corners of the internet — soyjak comics and fetish-adjacent communities — and was reposted across platforms, which normalized the image as a template for jokes and reactions [1]. Know Your Meme notes that some Twitter accounts may have helped popularize the character, though those claims are unconfirmed in the record provided [1].

3. The 2025 Viggle AI surge: remixing people into the animation

In 2025 a separate surge occurred when Viggle AI-generated videos crudely rotoscoped disliked or ridiculed public figures and regular users into the explicit Incredible Gassy animation; Know Your Meme documents this as a notable phase that intensified attention and controversy around the meme [1]. A later Know Your Meme entry specifically calls out a March 29, 2025 TikTok reedit that used Viggle AI to place a different TikToker into the Incredible Gassy animation and received large engagement over months [2].

4. Why the meme is provocative and spreadable

The meme combines recognizable nostalgia (an obvious riff on Pixar’s Mr. Incredible) with juvenile shock humor and, in many versions, explicit adult content — a mix that fuels rapid remixing and sharing in transgressive online communities [1]. The 2025 Viggle AI variants added another viral hook: inserting real people into that explicit template creates humiliating, attention-grabbing clips that spread quickly [2] [1].

5. Conflicting accounts and gaps in the record

Know Your Meme’s entries acknowledge uncertainty: the precise commissioning details, the exact originator accounts that popularized the character, and the full timeline of reposts are not fully confirmed in the sources provided [1]. An editorial guide on Know Your Meme frames the creation as "someone on the internet decided to create Incredible Gassy," reflecting both the obvious parody intent and the murky provenance [3]. Outside the provided sources, available reporting does not mention additional primary evidence for the earliest posts or the artist’s full account.

6. Cultural context and downstream effects

Because the character originated in fetish and niche meme communities, it illustrates how subcultural content can migrate into mainstream meme formats and be weaponized via AI tools; Know Your Meme records both the fetish commissioning and the later AI-driven humiliations [1]. The Viggle AI wave also produced critical reactions and commentary online, with some users calling the technique ethically fraught — a dynamic visible in the platform engagement around the March 2025 reedit [2].

7. What this means for tracing meme origins

The Incredible Gassy case highlights recurring problems in meme provenance: commissioned art can become decontextualized, reposted binaries obscure original creators, and fast-moving AI remixes accelerate both spread and harm; Know Your Meme’s documentation stitches together these phases but leaves some claims unconfirmed [1]. Researchers and platforms citing this meme should note where provenance is documented and where the record explicitly says claims are unconfirmed [1].

If you want, I can extract a concise timeline of specific documented posts (e.g., June 2021 YouTube repost, November 2024 Reddit repost, March 29, 2025 TikTok Viggle AI edit) with their citations from these sources.

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