Vegeta Cult is a TikTok trend from mid-2021 where users adopted profile pictures of anime characters, memes or celebrities wearing Vegeta's green SAB jacket from Dragon Ball Super: Broly.

Where did Vegeta Cult come from?

TikToker @____vegetatard started it in June 2021 and formally announced the Vegeta Cult on July 30th that year.

What does Vegeta Cult mean?

Membership signals you edited Vegeta's SAB jacket onto a character for your TikTok PFP and joined a loose follower group that raided large creators' comment sections.

How do you use Vegeta Cult?

You change your TikTok profile picture to a character wearing Vegeta's green jacket, then follow other members and leave takeover-style comments on big accounts.

Is Vegeta Cult still popular?

Peak activity was July and August 2021, when Dexerto and Distractify both covered the trend; mainstream coverage fell off after that period.

Vegeta Cult

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Published October 22, 2026

Vegeta Cult is a TikTok group from summer 2021 whose members photoshopped Vegeta's green SAB jacket from Dragon Ball Super: Broly onto anime characters and reaction images for their profile pictures. The trend came out of TikToker @____vegetatard's June 15th, 2021 return-from-ban video and grew into coordinated follow chains and comment-section raids. By early August 2021, swarms on a Charli D'Amelio video drove Dexerto and Distractify to publish explainers on how the cult worked.

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Overview

To join the group, a user changed their TikTok profile picture to an edit of an anime character, meme figure or celebrity wearing Vegeta's green jacket, the SAB coat he wears in Dragon Ball Super: Broly2. Edits ranged from clean composites of anime protagonists in the jacket to messier photoshops slapped onto reaction images2. Original art was fine, but recycling someone else's jacketed character also counted.

Once inside, members followed each other to inflate counts, then descended on big creators' comment sections with lines about the cult's unstoppable power and a coming takeover of the app1. The vibe leaned into Vegeta's Saiyan-prince posturing, mixing Dragon Ball references with the raid-based humor that drove earlier TikTok groups like the Hamster Cult and the Lana Cult1.

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Origin & Background

Platform

TikTok

Creator

@____vegetatard

Date

2021

Vegeta Cult traces to TikToker @____vegetatard, who started it in June 20212. On June 15th, 2021 he posted a return video showing Vegeta in the green SAB jacket after a recent ban, and by June 28th he was showcasing a cluster of parody accounts using the same PFP under names like 'vegetarduncle' and 'vegetardstepmom,' set up as a mock 'family'3.

He formally announced the Vegeta Cult on July 30th, 2021, then posted an August 1st roundup of fan jacket edits that gained more than 300,000 views in five days3.

How It Spread

Through July 2021, jacket edits spread onto anime leads, reaction images and famous figures as cult members followed each other to boost counts1. Dexerto reported that participants had gained thousands of followers through the trend, comparing it to the earlier Lana Cult (centered on Lana Del Rey) and Hamster Cult (centered on the Staring Hamster meme)1.

Raids amplified visibility. On August 5th, 2021, cult member @hatefulyosha filmed a mass swarm of jacket avatars in the comments of a Charli D'Amelio video set to the RIP Bozo sound, with the clip gaining over 500,000 views in a day3. The next day, Dexerto1 and Distractify2 both published explainers walking readers through how to make a jacket PFP.

Timeline

2021-06-15

@____vegetatard posts a TikTok announcing his return from a ban, using an image of Vegeta in the green SAB jacket from Dragon Ball Super: Broly.

2021-06-28

@____vegetatard shares parody 'family' accounts (vegetarduncle, vegetardstepmom) copying the same jacket PFP.

2021-07-30

@____vegetatard formally announces the Vegeta Cult on TikTok.

2021-08-01

A follow-up roundup video of fan jacket edits gains over 300,000 views in five days.

2021-08-05

@hatefulyosha posts footage of Vegeta-jacket avatars flooding a Charli D'Amelio video set to the RIP Bozo sound, drawing over 500,000 views.

2021-08-06

Dexerto and Distractify publish explainers describing the Vegeta Cult and how to join.

How to Use This Meme

Typical practice: pick an anime character, meme or celebrity, edit Vegeta's green SAB jacket from Dragon Ball Super: Broly onto them, and set the result as your TikTok PFP2. From there, members commonly followed back other cult accounts and chimed into large creators' comment sections about the group's power1.