Volleyball Booty — 3D rendered video game character in denim shorts posed near a volleyball net

Volleyball Booty

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Published October 4, 2026

Volleyball Booty is an object-labeling image macro built from a photoshopped shot of two volleyball players' rear ends, used to rank one thing as superior to another. The template sat dormant for seven years after its 2011 origin before exploding on Reddit in October 2018, where it became a go-to object-label format on r/dankmemes.

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Overview

Volleyball Booty, also called Volleyball Butts or Thicc Volleyball Player, is an object-labeling image macro built on a photoshopped close-up of two volleyball players bent over on the court, with one rear end noticeably larger than the other1. Captioners paste logos, titles, or names over each butt so the bigger one represents whatever the poster considers superior and the smaller one takes the loss.

The joke works because the visual gap is obvious at a glance, which makes it a clean fit for versus comparisons: a hyped franchise beating an older one, a dominant platform mocking a weaker rival, a new release crushing its predecessor3. Common pairings on the format include Rick and Morty next to Futurama, Fortnite beside Minecraft, and Google Chrome stacked over Internet Explorer5.

Origin & Background

Platform
Reddit (source photo) / Reddit r/dankmemes (viral spread)
Date
2011

On October 27th, 2011, Reddit user therabbiscat posted a zoomed-in photograph of two women playing volleyball to the small r/VolleyballGirls subreddit under the title "Glorious Perfection"1. The following month, an edited version with one rear exaggerated in size turned up on the New Schoolers Forums inside a "Volleyball shorts appreciation thread"2.

No single creator for the doctored image is confirmed. The photoshop circulated as reusable template art for seven years before anyone wrote captions on it5.

How It Spread

The template went viral on October 23rd, 2018, when Redditor vlas667 posted a version to r/dankmemes with Rick and Morty labeled on the larger rear and Futurama on the smaller one. The post picked up more than 43,800 points and over 900 comments within a day3.

Other captioners jumped in the same day. Pintexxz slapped Fortnite and Minecraft onto the players, while bananapooper2000 posted a variant with Google Chrome's logo over the bigger butt and Internet Explorer's over the smaller5. The following day, Mciscool200 took the template to r/MemeEconomy with a Netflix adaptation joke that cleared 11,400 points, and sub_to_naffa posted a Reddit-upvotes gag back on r/dankmemes that pulled over 31,300 points in nine hours4.

Timeline

2011-10-27

Redditor therabbiscat posts the original volleyball photo to r/VolleyballGirls[1].

2011-11

A photoshopped version with one exaggerated rear end appears on the New Schoolers Forums[2].

2018-10-23

Redditor vlas667 posts the Rick and Morty vs. Futurama caption to r/dankmemes, hitting 43,800+ points in 24 hours[3].

2018-10-23

Fortnite/Minecraft and Chrome/Internet Explorer variants follow on the same day[5].

2018-10-24

A Netflix adaptation version lands on r/MemeEconomy, and sub_to_naffa's Reddit-upvotes variant draws 31,300+ points on r/dankmemes[4].

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