Bubbles No Me Gusta

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Bubbles No Me Gusta is a reaction image and catchphrase pulled from an April 2016 episode of the Powerpuff Girls reboot in which Bubbles pulls a rage-comic NO face and shouts the Spanish phrase 'no me gusta.' The moment drew immediate mockery for cramming two already-dated internet memes into one Cartoon Network scene, and the freeze frame of Bubbles' face became a popular exploitable template.

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Overview

Bubbles No Me Gusta refers to a two-second beat from Cartoon Network's 2016 Powerpuff Girls reboot in which Bubbles pulls a wide-eyed grimace and yells the Spanish phrase 'no me gusta,' meaning 'I don't like it'1. Viewers instantly recognized both the face and the phrase as direct lifts from rage comics, an image-macro format that had already faded from mainstream popularity by around 20134.

The exploitable version isolates Bubbles' distorted expression on a plain background, letting editors paste it into other artwork or swap in different characters' features4. The scene's infamy came from two directions at once, one being backlash over the show clumsily borrowing from expired internet culture, and the other being a fringe reading of the face as an anti-Semitic caricature that YouTuber RebelTaxi and other commentators pushed back on the same day3.

How It Spread

On April 15, 2016, animation YouTuber RebelTaxi published a Tumblr post arguing that Bubbles' expression was a straightforward rage-comic reference and not an anti-Semitic caricature as some Twitter users had claimed, pulling more than 3,000 notes inside eleven days3. The following day, an anonymous poster on 4chan's /co/ imageboard opened a thread rounding up hostile reactions to the scene7.

Screenshots of that /co/ thread jumped to Reddit's r/4chan the same day via an Imgur album, hitting 304 points at 96% upvoted and more than 31,100 views on Imgur4. On April 17, Redditor Men_cant_be_raped posted DiscordDiscord's video clip to r/CringeAnarchy, where it picked up 233 points and 115 comments5.

The template moment landed on April 19, when Twitter user SYM-PHO-GEAH edited Bubbles' face onto a body meant to evoke Dio Brando from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, pulling more than 600 retweets and 500 likes in the first week6. A Tumblr repost of the same edit picked up around 1,290 notes the next day8.

How to Use This Meme

The template is typically the isolated crop of Bubbles' NO face on a plain white or transparent background. People commonly paste it into other artwork, swap her facial features onto other characters, or pair the still with a 'no me gusta' caption applied to whatever thing they want to react to4.

Frequently Asked Questions

Bubbles No Me Gusta

2016reaction imageclassic

Bubbles No Me Gusta is a reaction image and catchphrase pulled from an April 2016 episode of the Powerpuff Girls reboot in which Bubbles pulls a rage-comic NO face and shouts the Spanish phrase 'no me gusta.' The moment drew immediate mockery for cramming two already-dated internet memes into one Cartoon Network scene, and the freeze frame of Bubbles' face became a popular exploitable template.

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Overview

Bubbles No Me Gusta refers to a two-second beat from Cartoon Network's 2016 Powerpuff Girls reboot in which Bubbles pulls a wide-eyed grimace and yells the Spanish phrase 'no me gusta,' meaning 'I don't like it'1. Viewers instantly recognized both the face and the phrase as direct lifts from rage comics, an image-macro format that had already faded from mainstream popularity by around 20134.

The exploitable version isolates Bubbles' distorted expression on a plain background, letting editors paste it into other artwork or swap in different characters' features4. The scene's infamy came from two directions at once, one being backlash over the show clumsily borrowing from expired internet culture, and the other being a fringe reading of the face as an anti-Semitic caricature that YouTuber RebelTaxi and other commentators pushed back on the same day3.

How It Spread

On April 15, 2016, animation YouTuber RebelTaxi published a Tumblr post arguing that Bubbles' expression was a straightforward rage-comic reference and not an anti-Semitic caricature as some Twitter users had claimed, pulling more than 3,000 notes inside eleven days3. The following day, an anonymous poster on 4chan's /co/ imageboard opened a thread rounding up hostile reactions to the scene7.

Screenshots of that /co/ thread jumped to Reddit's r/4chan the same day via an Imgur album, hitting 304 points at 96% upvoted and more than 31,100 views on Imgur4. On April 17, Redditor Men_cant_be_raped posted DiscordDiscord's video clip to r/CringeAnarchy, where it picked up 233 points and 115 comments5.

The template moment landed on April 19, when Twitter user SYM-PHO-GEAH edited Bubbles' face onto a body meant to evoke Dio Brando from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, pulling more than 600 retweets and 500 likes in the first week6. A Tumblr repost of the same edit picked up around 1,290 notes the next day8.

How to Use This Meme

The template is typically the isolated crop of Bubbles' NO face on a plain white or transparent background. People commonly paste it into other artwork, swap her facial features onto other characters, or pair the still with a 'no me gusta' caption applied to whatever thing they want to react to4.

Frequently Asked Questions