Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are no longer the hottest celebrity couple of the week. That honor officially goes to Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, in a classic example of “why the hell is this suddenly trending on Tumblr?”
Bugs and Daffy—or Baffy, if you’re a shipper—have been an onscreen partnership since the 1930s, sharing a long-running friendship/rivalry with potentially flirtatious undertones. Bugs has also long been interpreted as queer-coded; a genderfluid agent of chaos whose role is sometimes compared to classic trickster myths.
In other words, the concept of a Bugs/Daffy romance is not especially new. It’s just grabbing people’s attention this week because it was acknowledged by the official Looney Tunes Instagram account.
Over the past few weeks, @LooneyTunes has made several comments about Baffy being canon, recently posting a video celebrating the ship.
Given that the vintage Warner Bros. cartoons have a more flexible brand than the tightly-controlled nature of their Disney rivals, this was basically just a fun, throwaway fan interaction… until someone reposted the Insta comments to Tumblr, where they promptly went viral.
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“Baffy is canon” emerged from precisely the correct intersection of queerness and absurdity to become massively popular on Tumblr, appearing out of nowhere to become the site’s #1 trending topic. There is no better platform to spread the news about a queer nonbinary duck/rabbit romance.
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Longterm Baffy shippers were vindicated. Everyone else was confused but thrilled. As per Tumblr tradition, many found out via the Destiel confession meme. Newcomers discovered the wealth of pre-existing Baffy fanart and embraced the headcanon that Bugs and Daffy are the adoptive parents of the Warner siblings from Animaniacs. Congrats to the happy couple!