I Did It, I Saved the Town / Billford Animation

About

I Did It, I Saved the Town, also known as the Billford Animation, refers to an explicit Gravity Falls animation that focuses on the "Billford" shipping of the characters Stanford Pines and Bill Cipher who are shown having homosexual relations because it's the only way that Pines can save the town. At the end of the animation, Pines is shown shirtless looking out of a window with his hands on his hips while the sun sets and he attests, "I did it. I saved the town." The animation was created by animator Mango Pablo who debuted SFW trailers on YouTube in September 2024. Mango Pablo posted the full animation to Patreon soon after. The Billford animation became infamous among the Gravity Falls fandom who posted memes about it on TikTok and elsewhere, centering on Pines' final quote, "I did it. I saved the town."

Origin

On August 26th, 2024, YouTuber^[1] Mango Pablo posted a trailer for an explicit Gravity Falls animation focused on the "Billford" shipping of characters Stanford Pines and Bill Cipher. In the SFW promo clip, Cipher initially says, "I'm going to destroy all of Gravity Falls." Pines retorts, eventually saying, "I'll do everything to stop you." The trailer received over 112,400 views in a month (shown below).

I'm going to destroy all of Gravity Falls.
No, f--- you, Bill.
Well actually, don't mind if you do! Hahahaha!
Wait, what?
You heard right. If you do it, I won't destroy the town!
I'll do everything to stop you.
Perfect, so do we have a deal?
Deal!

A few weeks later, on September 11th, YouTuber^[2] Mango Pablo posted another SFW clip from the animation, showing the ending where Pines is seen shirtless and remarks, "I did it. I saved the town." Over eight days, the video received roughly 90,000 views (shown below).

I did it. I saved the town.

During the same timeframe, Mango Pablo posted the clips to Twitter / X. For example, on September 6th, he posted the first trailer to X,^[3] gaining over 1.8 million views and 31,000 likes in 13 days. On September 11th, the "I did it. I saved the town" clip received over 517,000 views and 10,000 likes on X^[4] across eight days.

Also, in early September 2024, Mango Pablo posted explicit GIFs of the Billford animation to X.^[5]

Per Mango Pablo's September 6th tweet,^[3] the full animation was released on his Patreon on that day.

Spread

On September 9th, 2024, various reactions and memes regarding the I Did It, I Saved the Town animation surfaced on TikTok. For instance, on September 9th, TikToker^[6] @ieatworms_13 posted the ending of the animation, showing Pines looking out the window, gaining over 507,500 plays and 29,300 likes in 10 days (shown below).

On September 10th, TikToker^[7] @kj_1972_ posted one of the trailers, joking in text overlay, "New gravity falls episode just dropped y'all," gaining over 1.1 million plays and 32,200 likes in nine days (shown below).

Others started to find other instances of Pines standing with his hands on his hips like in the ending of the Billford animation. For instance, on September 12th, 2024, TikToker^[8] @gravityfallslover420 posted a video with the "I did it. I saved the town" audio, showing an illustration from a Gravity Falls book, receiving over 555,900 plays and 101,200 likes in a week (shown below).

On September 10th, TikToker^[9] @ajbutworse posted a video of them cosplaying as Pines in the "I did it. I saved the town" pose, gaining over 161,600 plays and 8,700 likes in nine days (shown below).

Image-based memes about the animation also spread on X, evident in a post shared by X^[10] user @iNo0ra__zzZ on September 11th, 2024, showing a Man Breaking Chains edit regarding Pines' final quote, earning over 14,000 likes in eight days (shown below).

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