Black-and-white collage of three Badussy War meme images featuring celebrities as fictional wartime figures.

Badussy War

2021viral videodeclining

Published October 15, 2026

Badussy War is a late-2021 TikTok and Stan Twitter trend that treats the slang term "badussy" as the subject of a fictional 1904 to 1991 conflict, with creators posting fake sepia battlefield portraits of celebrities like Nicki Minaj and Cardi B. The joke took off after a November 2021 clip tagged a photoshopped vintage image as "Cardinal Bacillus"1. By spring 2022, war footage edits were topping a million plays each on TikTok7.

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Overview

Each clip typically features a photoshopped celebrity or meme icon aged into a sepia 1800s war portrait, paired with a slowed and reverb edit of Rex Orange County's "Pluto Projector"1. Creators rebrand their subjects as fake generals and colonels with names like "Cardiac B. Arrest" or "Cardinal Bacillus," and overlay somber text claiming the figure was shot or betrayed in a specific year of the imaginary war4. The humor forces campy Stan Twitter icons, including Kim Kardashian, Trisha Paytas, James Charles and Jiafei, into a straight-faced historical drama.

Fan contributors on the Badussy War Fandom wiki fleshed out an elaborate lore, dating the conflict's start to 1903 when "Cardiac B. Arrest, supreme queen of Bussyland" had a trade meeting with Queen Abby Lee of the ALDC that ended in a wig snatching9. Later videos invented civilian characters too, like "tesla honda civic dunn, a scientist teacher who saved her students from an explosion" in 19452.

Origin & Background

Platform
TikTok (Stan Twitter viral spread)
Creator
@cardibbq
Date
2021

TikToker @cardibbq posted the earliest known Badussy War video on November 7, 2021, overlaying the text "Rare picture of Cardinal Bacillus. She was shot by Nicki Minaj in 1894 in Badussy War" on a sepia photoshop1. The clip earned roughly 1.4 million plays and defined the template of aged celebrity edit, invented military name and funereal audio4. Its slowed and reverb edit of Rex Orange County's "Pluto Projector" became the sound most imitators looped10.

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How It Spread

Two weeks after the first video, @aybeslays extended the lore on November 20, 2021 with a clip about "tesla honda civic dunn," a fictional teacher killed in a 1945 explosion, which drew around 528,900 plays2. The next day, aybeslays followed up with a vintage Nicki Minaj photoshop that climbed to about 2.8 million plays and 737,400 likes3. Twitter picked up the format on November 22, 2021 when user @wihajooon shared a screenshot of the aybeslays clip to Stan Twitter5.

Lore grew into December 2021, with @nessabarrettqueefshart posting a Badussy War entry that drew about 215,300 plays6. The trend peaked in early 2022, and on April 13, 2022, @dojacatsoldvape posted "Rare Footage from the Badussy War," earning roughly 1.2 million plays within three months7. Instagram caught the format by mid-year, with meme page shook.yt sharing a Badussy War edit on July 19, 2022 that drew around 25,900 likes in a day8.

Timeline

2021-11-07

@cardibbq posts the earliest known Badussy War TikTok with the "Cardinal Bacillus" sepia portrait.

2021-11-20

@aybeslays introduces fictional character "tesla honda civic dunn" killed in a 1945 explosion.

2021-11-21

@aybeslays posts a vintage Nicki Minaj photoshop that reaches about 2.8 million plays.

2021-11-22

Twitter user @wihajooon posts a screenshot of the aybeslays clip to Stan Twitter.

2021-12

@nessabarrettqueefshart posts a Badussy War video, extending lore into December.

2022-04-13

@dojacatsoldvape posts "Rare Footage from the Badussy War," earning around 1.2 million plays.

2022-07-19

Instagram meme page shook.yt shares a Badussy War edit that gets about 25,900 likes in a day.

How to Use This Meme

Creators typically start with a photoshopped vintage portrait of a celebrity or meme icon, desaturated to sepia or black-and-white, and rename them into a fake general such as "Cardiac B. Arrest". The slowed and reverb edit of "Pluto Projector" plays over text that claims a dramatic fate at a specific date in the 1904 to 1991 war10.

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