About

The Ice War on Europa, also known as War Forever, is an RPG zine project started by Twitter / X user @lolt64 and various collaborators in January 2025, who began posting as though they were soldiers part of a never-ending war on Europa, a moon of Jupiter known for its icy geography. By April 2025, several internet users began participating in the fictional "Ice War on Europa" by posting and sharing fan art, vignettes and memes. On April 19th, 2025, an official NASA Twitter account made a post referencing the never-ending Ice War on Europa. Despite the popular participation in the trend, @lolt64 has clarified that the setting was not meant to be a Backrooms or Goncharov-esque collective fiction, but rather fan fiction of an existing narrative, although they encourage people to take inspiration from their work. The predominant theme explored in posts under the hashtag "#WarForever" is the bleak, ridiculous and hopeless nature of an endless war, with the creator emphasising the absurdity of war rather than finding meaning or virtue in it.

Origin

On January 9th, 2025, Twitter / X^[1] user @lolt64 tweeted the earliest known reference to their Ice War on Europa RPG project, writing, "the frozen wastes of europa," gathering over 400 likes in three months.

X user @lolt64 set up the tone and setting of his Europa Ice War story in subsequent posts, as seen in the following tweets^[2][3] from January 12th and January 17th, which gathered over 1,000 and 4,000 likes, respectively, in three months.

Spread

X^[4] user @lolt64 continued posting about the War on the Ice Planet Europa, gathering nearly 2,000 likes on an April 9th, 2025, post captioned, "MEANWHILE, ON THE WAR-TORN ICE MOON EUROPA, IN THE PRE-WAR GLOBAL CHAT THAT NEVER SHUT DOWN…" The image showed a conversation between various soldiers stationed on Europa, and also contains one of the earliest mentions of the term "warmie," an insult used for people with the hopes of feeling the sensation of warmth again.

Memes about Europa rapidly spread on April 18th, with several Twitter users making posts participating in the RPG project.

For example, on April 18th, 2025, X^[5] user @tarnationface posted a tweet that read, "the Ice War has been going on for so long now that you can see the trench network from space," gathering over 15,000 likes in three days. Also on April 18th, X^[6] user @laserboat999 wrote, "Imagine bleeding out on the glacier and looking up and seeing this," alongside a photo of Jupiter. The post gathered over 25,000 likes in three days.

More internet users participated in posting about the Ice War on April 19th, including X^[7] user @SpaceBasedFox, who posted a meme featuring The Simpsons character Bart Simpson that gathered over 26,000 likes in two days.

Also on April 19th, 2025, the official NASA X^[8] account made a reference to the Ice War on Europa, writing, "Science Forever," as a play on the catchphrase "War forever."

On April 20th, Europa Ice War creator and X^[9] user @lolt64 made a post about the trend and clarified some key details about the lore. He clarified that, unlike the Backrooms or SCP Foundation, the Ice War on Europa is a concrete project he started, and not a spontaneous piece of collective fiction. He also clarified the overall tone of the RPG, which is bleak, hopeless and ridiculous, comparing it to BJ Blazkowicz's grim thoughts in Wolfenstein. The war is meant to be absurd and pointless, and not "badass."

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