Manga-style fox character with tear and speech bubbles saying 'Don't worry. I will survive.'

I Will Survive

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Published August 1, 2026

I Will Survive is a 2017 Zootopia fan webcomic by DeviantArt artist Borba in which Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde argue over an unexpected pregnancy. It became an exploitable in December 2017 after a Twitter panel went viral, with users mocking the comic's melodrama and its perceived stance on abortion.

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Overview

I Will Survive is a Zootopia fan webcomic by DeviantArt artist Borba that pairs Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde in a dramatic argument after Judy takes a home pregnancy test1. The comic runs 25 pages and ends with the couple breaking up over whether to keep the interspecies child, with Judy raising concerns about the safety of the birth and the toll on her police career3.

The series became an exploitable in December 2017 after a single panel started circulating on Twitter and Tumblr, where users mocked its heavy-handed tone and read it as an anti-abortion parable2. Borba pushed back on that interpretation in a DeviantArt comment reply, saying the comic was not written to promote a pro-life agenda2.

Origin & Background

Platform
DeviantArt (creation) / Twitter / Tumblr (viral spread)
Creator
Borba
Date
2017

Borba uploaded the first page of I Will Survive to DeviantArt on March 17th, 2017, showing Judy Hopps reacting to a positive pregnancy test3. Over the following two months, Borba posted another 24 pages in which Nick Wilde argues to keep the baby while Judy pushes back, leading to a dramatic split between the two Zootopia leads3.

The comic sat inside the Zootopia fan community for months before breaking out. On June 1st, 2017, YouTube channel ZPD Comics uploaded a full slideshow of the finished pages, and the fan blog Zootopia News Network wrote up the comic the same day1.

How It Spread

The meme phase started on December 6th, 2017, when Twitter user @Hello_Tailor 4 posted a panel of Nick pleading with Judy about her "unborn child." The tweet passed 4,800 likes and 2,000 retweets in 24 hours, pushing the comic in front of an audience well outside the Zootopia fandom2.

Remix edits followed the next day. On December 7th, Tumblr user Dismal-Dragon 5 posted a Distracted Boyfriend parody using Judy's imagined rabbit-fox offspring, and Tumblr user ibrokemyotherone 6 made a Scroll of Truth edit from the same panels2. That same day, Borba replied in the DeviantArt comments to deny that the comic was meant as anti-abortion messaging 7, and Zootopia News Network added an edit to their original post acknowledging the sudden wave of new readers arriving from Twitter, Tumblr, and The AV Club1.

Borba returned to the story on September 30th, 2018, posting the first page of a sequel titled Born to Be Alive 8. A link to the sequel hit /r/Zootopia the same day and picked up 25 points 9, and on October 3rd, Tumblr user snekcore reblogged the page with a Mr. Incredible reaction image reading "I can't. Not again. I'm not strong enough"2.

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The exploitable typically pulls a single panel from Borba's comic, usually the "unborn child" plea, and swaps in a new caption or pastes it into another meme template like Distracted Boyfriend or Scroll of Truth2. Edits often play the comic's earnest tone against something absurd, keeping Nick and Judy's expressions intact while replacing the dialogue2.

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