# I Will Survive 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. ## 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 test[1]. 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 career[3]. 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 parable[2]. Borba pushed back on that interpretation in a DeviantArt comment reply, saying the comic was not written to promote a pro-life agenda[2]. ## 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 fandom[2]. 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 panels[2]. 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 Club[1]. 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]. ## How to Use 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 Truth[2]. Edits often play the comic's earnest tone against something absurd, keeping Nick and Judy's expressions intact while replacing the dialogue[2]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is I Will Survive? A 25-page Zootopia fan webcomic by DeviantArt artist Borba in which Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde argue over an unexpected pregnancy, later remixed as an exploitable[1][3]. ### Where did I Will Survive come from? Borba posted the first page to DeviantArt on March 17th, 2017, and released 24 more pages over the following two months[3]. ### What does I Will Survive mean? The title comes from Judy's dramatic response to the pregnancy, and the meme use plays on the comic's heavy tone, with many readers interpreting it as an anti-abortion story despite Borba's denial[2]. ### How do you use I Will Survive? People typically crop a single panel and paste it into another format like Distracted Boyfriend or Scroll of Truth, or swap the dialogue for a joke that clashes with the comic's serious tone[2]. ### Is I Will Survive still popular? The exploitable had its main run in December 2017 and got a small revival around the September 2018 sequel Born to Be Alive, but it is not in active circulation now[2][8]. ## References 1. [https://www.zootopianewsnetwork.com/2017/06/i-will-survive-by-borba-full-comic.html]() 2. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-will-survive]() 3. [https://www.deviantart.com/borba]() 4. [https://twitter.com/Hello_Tailor]() 5. [https://dismal-dragon.tumblr.com/]() 6. [https://ibrokemyotherone.tumblr.com/]() 7. [https://www.deviantart.com/borba/art/I-Will-Survive-01-670107797]() 8. [https://www.deviantart.com/borba/art/Born-To-Be-Alive-01]() 9. [https://www.reddit.com/r/zootopia/]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/i-will-survive Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library