Fastest Running Cartoon Characters Ever
Fastest Running Cartoon Characters Ever is a 3D animated speed comparison video uploaded by YouTuber RED SIDE on August 14th, 2026, ranking 70 cartoon characters from slowest to fastest across a desert. Within days, the clip jumped to TikTok, fused with the Huss Valley slang, and turned Po from Kung Fu Panda into the summer's most argued-about speedster.
Overview
Fastest Running Cartoon Characters Ever, also known as the Cartoon Characters Running Meme or Fastest Hussers, is a 3D animated ranking video by YouTuber RED SIDE that stacks 70 cartoon characters against each other in a straight-line sprint through a desert map1. The clip cycles from the slowest characters like Angry Birds and Minions up through Shin Chan and SpongeBob before crowning a top-tier finisher, which gave TikTok editors a ready-made bracket of clips to chop up2.
The meme itself lives in the edits and captions people layered onto those clips. TikTokers relabeled the racers as "hussers" who were "hussin," borrowing the Huss Valley slang that had been circulating since July 2026, and stitched individual character runs into reaction posts, ironic power rankings, and joke edits where an unlikely character wins23.
Origin & Background
The source video, titled "Fastest Running Cartoon Characters Ever! 3D Comparison," was uploaded to YouTube by the channel RED SIDE on August 14th, 2026, and was built in Unreal Engine1. Within roughly 12 days it pulled in over 1.3 million views, 39,000 likes and 4,700 comments, and the comment section quickly filled up with references to the memes the video was already inspiring elsewhere2.
How It Spread
How to Use This Meme
Most edits typically pull a single character's run from the RED SIDE animation and pair it with a caption that either treats the character as an unstoppable "husser" or acts confused that they beat someone faster. A common convention is to freeze on the moment one character overtakes another and add a text overlay for the joke, and Po from Kung Fu Panda is often the punchline character2.