Big Chungus
An absurdly fat Bugs Bunny from a 1941 cartoon, repackaged as a fake PS4 game — one of 2018's most nonsensical viral jokes.
A deliberately stupid meme: a frame of obese Bugs Bunny from the 1941 short Wabbit Twouble, labeled 'Big Chungus' on a mock PlayStation 4 game cover. The humor is pure anti-comedy — treating a nonsense title like a real AAA release. It spread when a GameStop employee story about a customer asking for the fake game went viral.
History
Reddit user GaryTheTaco (Braden) created the PS4 cover meme privately on March 20, 2018, and posted it publicly to r/comedyheaven on December 1, 2018. The image uses a frame from Wabbit Twouble (1941) where Bugs inflates to mock Elmer Fudd. Know Your Meme documents the GameStop anecdote and Warner Bros.' later official acknowledgment as drivers of late-2018 virality.
Cultural scores
Editorial estimates of cultural weight — Current Popularity tracks how much people are posting about this now, not historical fame.
Current Popularity = how actively people are posting about this today. Influence = lasting footprint. Cringe = online reception. Brainrot = absurdist energy. Scores last reviewed 2026-07-25. How scoring works
Timeline
1941
Wabbit Twouble releases — source cartoon for the fat Bugs frame
Mar 2018
GaryTheTaco creates the Big Chungus PS4 cover meme privately
Dec 1, 2018
First public Reddit post to r/comedyheaven
Dec 2018
GameStop customer story goes viral; meme explodes across Reddit
2019+
Warner Bros. references; remains an absurdist classic
Examples
- “Customer asks GameStop for Big Chungus — employee confusion story”
- “Fake sequel covers: Big Chungus 2, Xbox edition, Nintendo Switch”
- “Using 'chungus' as slang for anything comically oversized”
Media
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References
Sources behind this entry. Prefer primary reporting and established culture archives over rumor.
- Big Chungus — Wikipedia
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