Back in early 2018, Braden created a seemingly random meme of a chonky Bugs Bunny to share amongst his friends. Coining the image “Big Chungus,” he didn’t think much of it at the time, but little did he know that his humble creation would ultimately evolve into one of the biggest memes of the late 2010s.

As the original creator of the meme, Braden, who goes by the online handle Gary the Taco, agreed to share the origin story of how he created the meme, and what he thinks of it all these years later. This is the story of Big Chungus, from inside joke to internet phenomenon, straight from Dr. Frankenstein himself.