Communist Bugs Bunny — Bugs Bunny with yellow hammer and sickle symbol gesturing to claim something

Communist Bugs Bunny

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Published November 15, 2026

Communist Bugs Bunny, also called We Have Bugs Bunny, pairs a red-tinted still of Bugs from the 1940 cartoon 'A Wild Hare' with a hammer and sickle to declare that something belongs to everyone instead of one owner. An Imgur post titled 'Prove me wrong' hit 144,000 views in June 2020, and by late June Redditors on r/dankmemes were using the format to claim Homer Simpson and the United States as communal property.

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Overview

Communist Bugs Bunny posts follow a two-panel or captioned structure where someone claims personal ownership of a subject, then the recolored Bugs responds by rewriting the possessive pronoun as 'our' or 'ours.' Common versions swap 'my girlfriend' for 'our girlfriend' or 'my president' for 'our president,' with the gag depending on how absurd collectivizing the specific noun feels1. Non-English edits translate the pronoun shift directly, like the Portuguese 'nossa girl' version on Twitter in June 20204.

Red tints and the overlaid hammer and sickle do the heavy lifting; the source frame is Elmer Fudd's crouch, just cropped so only Bugs reads as the speech act. Variants swap Bugs for other Looney Tunes or Simpsons characters while keeping the Soviet overlay, as Redditor Jahanzaib69 did with a red-filtered Homer Simpson under the title 'Comrade Homer'2. Short video edits also work, with the Soviet national anthem looping under the still frame7.

Origin & Background

Platform
Imgur / Reddit (viral spread)
Date
2020

'A Wild Hare,' a Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies short directed by Tex Avery and released on July 27, 1940, is widely considered Bugs Bunny's official theatrical debut6. Around the 57-second mark, Elmer Fudd creeps up to Bugs' rabbit hole in a crouched pose with one finger raised to his lips, and that single frame is what later posters would recolor red and stamp with the Soviet hammer and sickle3.

Imgur user WhatDoYouLookLike posted one of the earliest known Communist Bugs Bunny edits on June 8, 2020, under the title 'Prove me wrong,' and that version climbed to 144,000 views, 2,700 points, and 275 comments1. YouTuber SomethingDraw uploaded a video rendition the same day titled 'Soviet Bugs Bunny,' which reached roughly 5,000 views and 157 likes7.

How It Spread

Within a week, Communist Bugs Bunny moved onto Twitter as a reply-image gag. On June 13, 2020, user dowvred replied to a tweet praising a performer with 'nossa girl,' the Portuguese translation of 'our girl,' showing how multilingual the format had already turned (translated from Portuguese)4. iFunny poster Slumpire uploaded another variant on June 21, 2020, keeping the hammer-and-sickle overlay but flipping the subject8.

By late June the meme hit r/dankmemes in force. Redditor Jahanzaib69 published 'Comrade Homer' on June 23, 2020, swapping Bugs for a red-filtered Homer Simpson, and the entry drew more than 35,200 upvotes and 108 comments2. The same day, AMIS7 shared a version arguing that the U.S. is both capitalist and communist at once, and that post earned nearly 59,000 upvotes, 582 comments, and three Reddit awards5.

Timeline

1940-07-27

Warner Bros. releases 'A Wild Hare,' the Merrie Melodies short containing the Elmer Fudd crouch frame later used for the meme.

2020-06-08

Imgur user WhatDoYouLookLike posts 'Prove me wrong,' one of the earliest known edits, which reaches 144,000 views.

2020-06-08

YouTuber SomethingDraw uploads a video rendition titled 'Soviet Bugs Bunny.'

2020-06-13

Twitter user dowvred replies 'nossa girl' to a fan tweet, demonstrating a Portuguese-language variant.

2020-06-21

IFunny poster Slumpire uploads another variant of the image.

2020-06-23

Redditor Jahanzaib69 publishes 'Comrade Homer' to r/dankmemes, replacing Bugs with a red-filtered Homer Simpson.

2020-06-23

Redditor AMIS7 posts a version about the U.S. being capitalist and communist at once, which earns nearly 59,000 upvotes.

How to Use This Meme

Pick any caption where someone asserts personal ownership, like 'my cat' or 'my favorite band,' then attach the recolored Bugs reply with the pronoun shifted to 'our.' It lands hardest when the original claim is mildly possessive about something trivial, since the Soviet imagery turns everyday property into a resource to be nationalized. Video edits often loop the Soviet anthem under the frame for extra absurdity.

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