What is WW2 vs. WW3 Pin-Up Posters?

It is a two-panel Shadman webcomic turned exploitable meme that compares a classic WWII pin-up poster to a modern image of Belle Delphine doing an ahegao face.

Where did WW2 vs. WW3 Pin-Up Posters come from?

Shadman posted the original comic from @Shadbase on Twitter on January 15th, 2020 with the caption "War never changes".

What does WW2 vs. WW3 Pin-Up Posters mean?

The joke contrasts how pin-up taste shifted from painted bombshells to internet personalities like Belle Delphine, using the "War never changes" line as deadpan commentary.

How do you use WW2 vs. WW3 Pin-Up Posters?

Keep the two-panel layout and replace the WWIII poster with a current waifu, VTuber or fandom target, as the r/Komi_san editor did with Shouko.

Is WW2 vs. WW3 Pin-Up Posters still popular?

Posting slowed after a 2022 run of VTuber edits on Reddit and Twitter, though the template still circulates on r/MemeTemplatesOfficial.

WW2 vs. WW3 Pin-Up Posters

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Published November 12, 2026

Cartoonist Shadman posted a two-panel webcomic on Twitter in January 2020 showing a WWII soldier admiring a classic pin-up and his WWIII counterpart ogling Belle Delphine, captioned "War never changes." Within days, Reddit communities like r/TIHI and r/im14andthisisdeep pushed it viral, and by 2022 editors were swapping the WWIII poster for VTuber Gawr Gura.

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Overview

WW2 vs. WW3 Pin-Up Posters, also known as War Never Changes by Shadman, works as a before-and-after comparison about shifting taste in pin-up imagery1. The upper panel shows a nostalgic WWII GI gazing at a hand-painted bombshell poster, while the lower panel shows a modern soldier staring at a photo of Belle Delphine making an ahegao face1.

Replacement edits typically swap the lower image for whichever waifu, VTuber or anime character the poster wants to roast, keeping the "War never changes" caption intact3. Tone across edits ranges from self-deprecating fandom jokes to "im14andthisisdeep" style mockery of the original comic's premise3.

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Origin & Background

Platform

Twitter (source) / Reddit (viral spread)

Creator

Shadman

Date

2020

On January 15th, 2020, artist Shadman posted the two-panel comic to Twitter from the @Shadbase account with the caption "War never changes"1. The artwork collected more than 59,000 likes across the next three years3. Hours later, the same image went up on the r/Shadman subreddit, where it reached over 9,700 upvotes2.

How It Spread

Across January 16th, 2020, the comic bounced into r/im14andthisisdeep, r/JustBootThings and r/TIHI, where the "Thanks I Hate Modern War" repost collected roughly 5,700 upvotes3. On January 17th, a user on r/Komi_san posted the earliest known edit, swapping Belle Delphine for a Komi Shouko image and reaching 5,200 upvotes4. Template requests hit r/MemeTemplatesOfficial twice on January 20th as other subreddits tried to recreate the panels3.

The comic resurfaced through VTuber fandoms a year later. On June 4th, 2021, an r/Hololive edit featuring Yozora Mel in the lower panel passed 8,400 upvotes5. A clean template reappeared on r/MemeTemplatesOfficial on September 14th, 2021, giving posters a blank layout to work from3.

In early 2022, @DonieDarko3 posted a Gawr Gura version to Twitter on February 24th6, and a week later, r/blursedimages shared another soldier edit on March 2nd that reached around 5,700 upvotes7.

Timeline

2020-01-15

Shadman posted the "War never changes" comic to Twitter and r/Shadman.

2020-01-16

Reposts hit r/im14andthisisdeep, r/JustBootThings and r/TIHI.

2020-01-17

R/Komi_san user posted the earliest known Shouko edit.

2020-01-20

Template requested twice on r/MemeTemplatesOfficial.

2021-06-04

R/Hololive edit featuring Yozora Mel reached 8,400 upvotes.

2021-09-14