This Is the Taste of a Liar — Bucciarati licking tear from Giorno Giovanna's cheek in JoJo anime

This Is the Taste of a Liar

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Published October 2, 2026

"This Is the Taste of a Liar!" is a quote from the 1996 manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Vento Aureo, delivered by Bruno Buccellati after he licks sweat off Giorno Giovanna's cheek to expose his dishonesty. The scene drew parody edits as early as 2007 and exploded on Reddit in 2019, becoming a signature image macro of r/ShitPostCrusaders.

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Overview

This Is the Taste of a Liar is an image macro built around a single panel from Hirohiko Araki's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Vento Aureo, in which the character Bruno Buccellati licks sweat off Giorno Giovanna's face and declares the taste belongs to a liar1. The format works as a reaction image for calling out dishonesty: edits typically swap Giorno's face for a politician, celebrity, cartoon character or fandom in-joke while leaving Bruno's smug tongue-out pose intact2.

The appeal rides on how absurd the panel is on its own. A grown man tasting another man's sweat as interrogation reads as both deeply strange and unmistakably JoJo, which is why early edits treated it as a universal licker template long before the series had an anime adaptation3. Later edits circulating on r/ShitPostCrusaders leaned harder into the character pairing itself, with Bruno outing other JoJo cast members as liars4.

Origin & Background

Platform
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga (source); Reddit (viral spread)
Creator
Hirohiko Araki; Unknown
Date
1996

The scene first appeared in Chapter 443, "Bucciarati Is Coming, Part 1," of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Vento Aureo, published on January 10, 19961. In the chapter, Buccellati questions Giorno about the fate of a gangster named Leaky-Eye Luca; Giorno denies involvement while unknowingly clutching Luca's eye, and his nervous sweat gives him away when Buccellati licks his cheek2. The anime adaptation's first episode, "Gold Experience," aired on July 5, 2018, and reanimated the moment, pushing it in front of a much larger audience5.

How It Spread

Parody edits predate the anime by more than a decade. On November 18, 2007, a Penny Arcade forum user going by Wren posted a version featuring Team Fortress 2's Spy and Engineer in place of Bruno and Giorno3. On March 13, 2008, a JoJo's Bizarre Adventure community forum user named Tobunshi swapped Giorno's face for former U.S. president George W. Bush6.

The template jumped to English-speaking imageboards on January 9, 2013, when an anonymous 4chan /co/ poster uploaded a SpongeBob SquarePants crossover riffing on a similar face-licking gag from the episode "The Smoking Peanut"78. Tumblr user WeeklyManga reposted that SpongeBob version on June 9, 2014, picking up 536 notes by mid-20159.

The format's biggest surge came after the anime aired. On October 5, 2019, Redditor SicilianFork posted an edit to r/ShitPostCrusaders that cleared 13,700 upvotes in three days4. The same day, Redditor C3t8csPazG posted a separate edit with similar numbers and dropped a transparent PNG of Buccellati licking in the comments, which other users recycled into dozens of follow-up edits that week10.

Timeline

1996-01-10

Chapter 443 of Vento Aureo is published in Weekly Shonen Jump, introducing the sweat-tasting scene[1].

2007-11-18

Penny Arcade forum user Wren posts a Team Fortress 2 edit of the panel[3].

2008-03-13

JJBA forum user Tobunshi posts a George W. Bush edit of the scene[6].

2013-01-09

An anonymous 4chan /co/ user uploads a SpongeBob SquarePants crossover edit[7].

2014-06-09

Tumblr user WeeklyManga reposts the SpongeBob version, which collects 536 notes over the following year[9].

2018-07-05

The Vento Aureo anime adaptation premieres with episode one, "Gold Experience," animating the scene[5].

2019-10-05

Reddit edits by SicilianFork[4] and C3t8csPazG[10] each clear 13,700 upvotes on r/ShitPostCrusaders, triggering a wave of follow-up edits.

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