Where did this Gravity Falls Image come from?!

[@antoniogris]

Brazilian here. The phrase "Estúdio versao Gravity Falls" in the ways it's writen makes me believe it portrays the members of an art/animation studio instead of students of an art class It would be cool if someone could somehow get in touch with people from that studio (or class) to get some extra context

[@ThatGFFAN]

That's interesting. Thank you so much for the insight. Hopefully someone maybe who was part of that might one day see this and have some info to share.

[@Redeetvvalt]

Real

[@gooberdude666]

"translated from Portuguese it reads: Juan and the gang..." Is honestly so funny to me for no reason

[@prestontheruler9332]

@@gooberdude666 I think its really funny thinking of it as Juan is the main character in the photo, everyone who was originally in gravity falls is a side character

[@coolguymandudeD]

@@prestontheruler9332 yeah i was about to say

[@brantjustilian3791]

Well that hoax character does look Hispanic

[@Noob_LoI]

@@brantjustilian3791 Brazilians are not hispanic, hispanic people speak spanish and brazilians speak portuguese

[@driveasandwich6734]

​@@Noob_LoI Brazilian here. Technically we *are* Hispanic. Hispanic means "relating to Hispania", which historically used to be a synonym for Iberia, which includes Portugal. So while Hispanic can be used in the sense you said, it can also include us.

[@itzgoogol69420]

i can't believe we finally know the lore of Juan "Graggle" Gravityfallsman

[@ThatGFFAN]

Juan could've defeated Bill Cipher himself with 1% of his power!

[@adamcurazi2122]

What do you mean “could’ve”? He did in the finale, don’t you remember. He is truly hero, never going to forget him. Best Gravity falls Character!

[@brandongaylord1039]

😲I honestly already figured it out just me looking at this character in the picture I realized that was probably a real dude what was working on the show.

[@brandongaylord1039]

The creators and artists just drowning themselves on the beginning image of the show 😅

[@antoniogris]

Juan% of his power?

[@austenlangford]

@@brandongaylord1039 why did they drown themselves?

[@driveasandwich6734]

I love how even in the image he seems uncomfortable by how out of place he is

[@dairekelly8620]

@@driveasandwich6734 he's like "where on earth am I"

[@pizzanarwhalisntpossessed]

I bet Juan is eatting copper wires with Pyramid Steve, laughing behind our backs

[@imaymellow]

Someone has got to draw this XD

[@sourdoughsdreams9578]

Imagine your funny fan made desktop background causing such hubbub over a decade later. That’s awesome!

[@ThatGFFAN]

This is basically the Gravity Falls equivalent of all those lost media searches for Minecraft stuff where someone years ago makes a random video or takes a screenshot of something that becomes super iconic and then people years later are allocating tons of memory off their PC's to brute force finding a world seed for it, lmao.

[@GhostsGraveyard]

Imagine a new show comes out, and you and your friends like it and decide to draw some ocs. You upload them to archive it, and never think about it again. All the sudden, you go to check up on that show you watched ages ago, and your self insert is on the front page. That would be so confusing and funny.

[@undyingUmbrage413]

all of the sudden

[@GhostsGraveyard]

@ thanks for the grammar check Caliborn.

[@CriacaoDeArthur9080]

I love how my country keeps sneaking in the most random spots on the internet. Shoutout to Juan

[@YourMuseBillCipher]

Eu sinto que o Brasil tem algo de especial que não importa onde eu vou EU NÃO CONSIGO ESCAPAR DO MEU PAIS😭

[@DaviNoob11]

@@YourMuseBillCipher "Você pode correr o quanto quiser, mas não pode escapar de si mesmo"

[@marekbainbridge2009]

I saw some merchandise with this image on AliExpress I was so confused

[@Plackowicz]

The fact it happend to The Gravity Falls of all shows is hilarious. I can't belive Alex Hirsch never referenced this in The book of Bill

[@YourMuseBillCipher]

Now I feel a sensation of dread that you said it... I'm gonna pull out a random sheet of paper and make it up as "the lost chapter" and there's some of the earth triangle thing on the backside hehe

[@jackmonster0017]

my theory is that it's probably just an archival site made by a group of friends who just decided it would be fun to draw themselves and each other as gravity falls characters, not to mention the name of the site being a cheese brand definitely feels like an inside joke along with the thrown together-ness of it all. I'm sure there's probably dozens of sites like these made by random friend groups that just never resurface because they're so obscure.

[@anaaifos]

Omg yes! I thought the same thing

[@YourMuseBillCipher]

That's a great theory

[@adamcurazi2122]

I love the scene of Gravity falls where he defeats Bill Cipher as an HERO and save Gravity falls. He is truly hero, never going to forgetting about him.

[@lizardlover9941]

He did it, he saved the town!

[@maplemaple626]

I swear I'd always see that whenever I wanted to use the group photo for a reference or something. I always thought it was some random deviantart image where the creator did a self-insert. Had no idea it was that old and had lore lmao.

[@ThatGFFAN]

lol, you and me both. This was such a strange thing to research to make this video.

[@Grayalloy337]

My favorite moment from the show was when Juan said “It’s Gravity time.” And fell on top of Bill Cipher, killing him instantly

[@AiryOneFictionKinner]

@@Grayalloy337 my favourite episode fr fr✨️✨️✨️

[@Loganischeese]

CODES: 1:34: "When am I getting my own page on the lost characters wiki?" 3:01: "The last win for Gravity Falls" 4:57: "Colder than my math teacher in highschool when I asked for a mark boost!" 8:19: "Plot twist... bro is Juan himself!" 9:52: "It's not. I checked while editing and he deleted it and now I'm very sad" 13:13:" Other Juan is er Juan T Trippe (the text is cut off by the end cards) (These have all probably been solved already, but it's fun to try and decipher these. Also, I was unable to solve the code at 11:39.)

[@zache001]

11:39 decodes to "MAYBE THE REAL JUAN WAS THE OC'S WE MADE ALONG THE WAY" in Vigenere Cipher using the key word "JUAN". juan is the goat lol

[@zache001]

also 13:13 is "MY OTHER JUAN IS CLIPPER JUAN T TRIPPE"

[@connorbeith3232]

I loved when Juan and Soos were paired together for adventures, they always made a good team!

[@Chiptendo]

There's something so creepy yet cool on how that gravity falls is such a mysterious show that even the creator himself didn't make some of the mysteries.

[@Midsummer-korok]

juan is so iconic

[@randomcommentog]

I’ll be honest I thought this was a troll video because I’ve never seen this image before

[@ThatGFFAN]

lmao, I would've too had I seen this. But I've seen that image so many times myself while looking up GF stuff and others have too that it was just too good a topic to not milk out a video on. Plus, if anyone's gonna talk about super obscure GF stuff that no one otherwise would care about...I'm probably the only insane enough person to try it :D

[@randomcommentog]

@ThatGFFAN True if anyone would talk about something about this it would be you I thought it was a troll video because from the small thumbnail I thought it was you in the GF style

[@NerdOwlLover487]

I have never seen this image until now.

[@jimjimmers8571]

Right. Next you’ll be saying there was never a Juan Pines in the series. Checkmate, Fed.

[@Glitchnb]

@@jimjimmers8571 Juan pines is so iconic

[@shellykidvid]

@@GlitchnbHow could anybody not know him?

[@Glitchnb]

@@shellykidvid I know right?

[@Sweguin]

They finally caught him after all these years...

[@nifan9065]

As a brasilian is so funny to me that some random ahh drawing of an arts class ended up being the top result for GF on Google

[@daviszdirector]

bro thats just juan the janitor. chill guy. he punched bill in the face

[@Maxanimates2763]

One time I was in an art class, and they printed out reference images of cartoon characters. The gravity falls one was the iconic poster/ Disney+ gravity falls icon of dipper and Mabel stepping over a log that is actually a monster foot, except this guy was there. Ive been wanting to know about this for years, thank you thatGFfan.

[@allthedumbthingz-oc5cc]

I don’t think I’ve seen that image before. And I loved searching for Gravity Falls fanart on the regular around when the show was airing. Wow, have I been living under a rock. This reminds me of a KZbinr’s online avatar accidentally being used by official online sources talking about Pokémon Go. The KZbinr didn’t mind it, minus one instance where he was worried about people thinking he was sponsoring some contest from a store.

[@eldritchhorrorwithwifi]

Juan carried the show for me personally tbh

[@AltName7]

10:42 A wallpaper site might've just been scraping wordpress pages that contained images that lined up with common wallpaper sizes.

[@the10ofdiamondscard]

bro thinks he's part of the team

[@picky9687]

Exactly what I thought lol

[@7.6Millionthcat]

"And bumblebee!" Ahh character

[@adam.n-steve]

I almost miss Graggle Simpson hiding in the thumbnail. That meta self-aware clickbait arrow really distracted me 😂

[@GuardianRail408]

How have I never heard/seen of Juan? Literally all gravity falls information is old to me I think that other than production I've seen and heard everything about mysteries about everything, both in and out of the show, and I've never heard of Juan, this is insane

[@That_koala]

My friends cousin had that dude on a gf pillow🥲

[@ThatGFFAN]

lmao, I've heard about that. That's honestly hilarious someone used it on a pillow and actually sold it ;-;

[@rat_massacre]

OH MY GOD WHERE DID HE BUY IT I NEED ONE

[@That_koala]

@@rat_massacreidk i think from a boot leg shop

[@MushroomSpecimen]

Those guys are thr real OG Gravity Falls fan!

[@MyObsessions247]

I’m noticing all of the code during the video… buuuuuuuttttt I’m not gonna even try to decode it >:3 Here’s the Timestamps tho: 1:36 3:02 4:59 6:49 8:21 9:54 11:41 13:13

[@pepsiman3893]

8:20 is: plot twist bro is juan himself!

[@lmaosomerandomguy]

1st one is WHEN AM I GETTING MY OWN PAGE ON THE LOST MEDIA WIKI? 2nd one is THE LAST WIN FOR R/GRAVITYFALLS 3rd one is colder than my math teacher in high school when I asked for a mark boost! 4th one is that dog probably hates mondays puppies to abu dhabi the 5th one someone already solved in the replies so I do not have to solve it. 6th one is it's not I checked while editing and he deleted it and now I am very sad 7th one is MAYBE THE REAL JUAN WAS THE OC'S WE MADE ALONG THE WAY and finally the 8th one aka the last one is OTHER JUAN IS ER JUAN T TRIPPE (I know this is not what the cipher is supposed to say but there's probably a part that's being blocked up by the end cards) The lowercase answers were decoded with boxentriq and the capital answers were solved with the break the code gravity falls page or dcode.

[@soldofficialyt]

The fandom naming him after Graggle Simpson is hilarious

[@tylerb.gaming762]

This gives off the same vibes as that one image of Arthur with Chill Guy in it

[@_Whyro_]

I like how as far as I know this image only exists in one specific place on the entire internet and the site doesn't even acknowledge the random guy

[@SillyFoxnamedAlex]

Damn dudes oc became so famous is almost official and got merch

[@loggingfire1]

Plot twist, the guy who found it is Juan

[@pemanilnoob]

I love you Juan

[@khadija_candy]

This reminds me of how the image on the Wikipedia page for the anime "Aikatsu stars" uses a version of the promotional art that's edited to include a character from the prequel anime that does not actually appear in the original image. And due to this it's the first image that comes up when you search for it. It's been like this for at least a year so it's weird no one had fixed it.

[@kristin332]

i don’t know why this is so funny to me 😭 i’m laughing so hard watching this

[@elizabethsharp9556]

Someone left a comment under the Adventure Time section A pirates drawing has a signature and it’s cute Adventure Time fairy also has a signature The Johnny Quest one is under Adventure Time and also has a signature Juan’s Adventure Time art in the first row has a signature.

[@somemadnessfan4763]

this is the GF equivilant of that one SFM FNAF poster using the old 2015 Splinks models with the classics on one side and the Toys on the other and how it's used on EVERY article and sometimes official merch for the series right now they're phasing it out in favour of using images from the cancelled Fanverse game FNAF + by Phisnom (which still preplexes me considering that game is cancelled), or screencaps from the Movie. But that SFM image will still creep up sometimes

[@Individualthatisabsorbant]

The Quest for the Lost Thumbnail is as great a mystery as the Author of The Journals.

[@rmmimerin130]

He is literally a entity i feel like this would be an actual episode

[@averagegamingplayer]

My guess is that it was one of the largest resolution versions of the group image and sites talking about GF preferred to have the best quality they could find in their posts.

[@AKA.910]

The Film Theorists should make a video about this picture

[@mossofthemoon]

Why is he so short? He has a beard, implying he's an adult. But he's barely taller than Dipper and Mabel. Is there a known reason, or is he just that short?

[@ApplePizzaPie]

@@mossofthemoon Common case of people drawing characters to look like the main characters to stay on model, even if the main charactets are kids and the drawn character is an adult.

[@iammicrowavedchair]

plot twist: alex hirsch actually created juan as a troll and juan is canonically the most powerful character in the show

[@shellykidvid]

More than Bill? More than the Axolotl?

[@iammicrowavedchair]

@ they are ants compared to juans power

[@OlavoHenriqueLimaLeite]

I read the title: The Graggle of Gravity Simpsons

[@alvinlima7770]

"Bread with polenguinho" is peak humor lol

[@Nzap27]

If gravity falls was still going they would definitely make a joke about it

[@toll4568]

i remember seeing on tiktok some girl had bought a gravity falls pillow with this specific image on the pillow, so thats why i was familiar with this self insert picture. either way i didnt pay it much attention and just assumed that it was mermando

[@dixierekt8096]

Oh that's Graggle Pines

[@Dashhaddy]

This bout to be chill guy all over again 🤦

[@bichoblancoquebaila8723]

@Dashhaddy when you are Long forgotten until 12 years but you're Just a confused juan

[@Digital_Void200]

@Dashhaddy the fact that i was about to say the exact same sentence

[@bungiecrimes7247]

He doesn’t look very chill. Just a nervous guy

[@hanahyperfixates]

You know I almost didn't click on this, but thank God I saw the clickbait arrow in the thumbnail 😂 (great video, man)

[@ThatGFFAN]

I knew it would work😂 Thanks, Hana :P

[@AceCipher]

bro imgen being the kid that drew it in 2012 nd then you google gravity falls and see your drawing sitting there as the face of the show

[@brendiesel386]

Looks like older human mermando

[@SigmaFroid]

When I first saw this image I thought it was weird but now that I know the backstory behind it I still think it's weird. Great video

[@kai_3788]

What makes this more interesting to me is that Juan is not a very popular name in Brazil. I was born in, and lived most of my life in Brazil and have never once met someone named Juan. Looking at a 2010 census shows that there were only 45,735 people in Brazil named Juan, which made up 0.03% of the population. So that only makes the odds of this happening even more astronomical.

[@s4turn_st4rz_yt]

For a minute, I thought you would pull a Nick Robinson and say you made the drawing 😭 like in the McDonalds DS game video

[@EthanPlushMovieProductions]

Bro is not apart of the team 😭🙏

[@Buddy_Duck]

The google image algorithm tends to do stuff like that. For a short time, a fan made stock drawing of Daffy Duck made by a friend and I was one of the first results on Google images when you looked up the character. To be fair, to an untrained eye the image probably looked official, so it’s not a big surprise, I think it’s just funny that Google thought a newgrounds link contained official art of Daffy Duck.

[@shellykidvid]

Why is your voice so weirdly calming?

[@fireinthefreezer]

I think it got popular because I saw a video on tiktok of someone who bought a gravity falls pillow and it had this random self insert on it.

[@Canal-Insano-Videos]

Yeah, Brazil is a very obscure country when talking about media

[@Picosbackupchannel]

Bro’s not apart of the team😭😭😭

[@Grunkle_Stanley]

Well, you can't alter my memory you Triangle deamon...

[@Pixelusually]

Tldw: he was supposed to be revealed in season 3 as the secret new member of the pines family who was to be revealed in episode 1. His most important role in the season was him being possessed by bill cipher in episode 8 to reveal that bill hadn't died, but after they decided not to have the series continue, and later on decided bills fate, he never got a chance to appear

[@BrainlesssBrainlesss]

Bro that’s exactly how chill guy started 😭

[@Feurigel1806]

I guess at some point I also saw that page, cause I do remember it, I looked it up and I've seen it on a German video. My memories are also super confused. Cause I remember seeing the German video about this picture, but the weird thing, to me it feels like 2 years ago, but actually the German video is from 9 months ago ^^" Anyways the video is from the channel "BillToons" and there's a guy named "The Attributer" who found the source of the picture on March and actually commented on the same Twitter post as you? I'm pretty sure the picture got so popular since it was so early made and was like one of the first pictures from GF you would find on Google images xD

[@Kamil_Horvath]

I have never seen this image before in my life. This is so interesting 👀

[@sage.81]

Anyone else look up Gravity Falls and not have this image show up?

[@ThatGFFAN]

Seems Google has since fixed it given even I couldn't get it while making this video. I had to use old screenshots for that reason.

[@sage.81]

@ Oh well that makes sense, it isn't an official image

[@rayganparksmitchell]

0:31 That's not a Gravity Falls character! That's just some random dude! It's an OC or something!

[@bryn550]

Its the chill guy incident all over again

[@BeatriceVanille]

Brasil mentioned

[@firepeaman2440]

WHO INVITED MY MAN BLUD BRO THINK HE ON THE TEAM 💀💀💀

[@Eva_Graces_Stories]

“Reddit actually answering a question for once” was not on my 2025 Bingo Card

[@Cosmicfallsr]

Am I the only one who's never seen the image and can't even find it trying to look Google images lol

[@ccsunshine6370]

1:35 When am I getting my own page on the lost media wiki? 3:01 the last win for r/gravityfalls 4:59 6:50 9:53

[@Cold_Frost41]

"And bumblebee" ahh image 😭🙏

[@Zinyak12345]

I think I got them all but it's probably close enough regardless. 1:35 - "WHEN AM I GETTING MY OWN PAGE ON THE LOST MEDIA WIKI?" 3:01 - "THE LAST WIN FOR R/GRAVITYFALL" 6:50 - "THAT DOG PROBABLY HATES MONDAYS AND MAILS CUTE PUPPIES TO ABU DHABI" 8:20 - "P-L-O-T T-W-I-S-T B-R-O I-S J-U-A-N H-I-M-S-E-L-F" 9:54 - "IT'S NOT. I CHECKED WHILE EDITING AND HE DELETED IT AND NOW I'M VERY SAD." 11:40 - "MAYBE THE REAL JUAN WAS THE OC'S WE MADE ALONG THE WAY"

[@Llemon_core]

"And bumblebee!!" ahh moment

[@JacksonOTighe]

Am I the only one who is thinking about the ciphers that pop up

[@JeD.87]

He thinks he's a chill guy

[@Pinkythebunny9721]

I kinda wonder if he will get the pyramid Steve type of fan content?

[@Maquenaz]

thats actually just carlos

[@StudioTanuki]

just put the fries in the bag luh bro

[@Manface-m2y]

Bro is NOT apart of the team💀

[@HungDouge]

I wonder if Juan knows that his oc is at the very top of the image search

[@Vynil-Ike]

This is so funny, it´s next level gaslighting.

[@aboiscool]

I think that it's an edited image of mermando

[@sasamichan]

there's a guy on Deviant Art who does this fan art series Im 90% shore that's one of his

[@Vimdo]

bro thinks hes on the team 😂

[@Doggo_on_vr]

Why is graggle on the thumbnail? Edit: just watched the vid and now know why

[@ThatGFFAN]

Helps if you watch the video🙂

[@ChazTheFloofer]

Just not a chill guy

[@RulerOfArniskad]

Interesting video but, what's up with the codes? I'll edit this comment later if I decide to decode them, but how come so many people are ignoring it? I've only seen one comment acknowledging it

[@chickennuggets6847]

There's at least one person with the user @Loganischeese who has decoded the codes, you just need to scroll down a bit further

[@HenrikhWolf]

I've never seen that image before