The Buttaface Contest Girl Stacy, also known as the Butterface Contest Girl Stacy, refers to a woman, named Stacy, who participated in the "Miss Buttaface Contest" on the Howard Stern Show in the 2000s. The contest involved women with subjectively attractive bodies and less attractive faces taking a brown paper bag off their heads before an audience and a panel of judges. The clip of Stacy in the Buttaface Contest went viral on Twitter / X in mid-August 2025, sparking memes and viral discourse about misogyny, feminism and a perceived cultural shift from the 2000s to 2010s.

Origin

On May 13th, 2004, The Howard Stern Show aired the "Miss Buttaface Contest" in which they rated the bodies and faces of female contestants who were considered "butterfaces," a slang term for "but her face," meaning a woman with an attractive body but a less attractive face.

The full video was shared to YouTube years later, on October 21st, 2021, by YouTuber^[1] 我的世界萌小熊, gaining over 54,400 views in four years.

At the video's 8:51-minute mark (shown below), a woman named Stacy is shown in a black bikini with a brown paper bag over her head. When she removes it, the audience is heard jeering, and the judges, including Howard Stern, Artie Lange, Rob Schneider and Robin Quivers, are heard cracking jokes about her appearance.

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On October 28th, 2023, TikToker^[2] @anonym0usqz posted the clip of Stacy in the Buttaface Contest contest, adding a text overlay caption that read, "'I wish I was an adult in the 2000s :(' / The 2000s," which used the clip as an example of life in the 2000s. Over two years, the video gained over 175,800 likes (shown below).

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@anonym0usqz shes legit one of the prettiest girls ive ever seen. #2000s #toxic #2004 #buttaface #trending #foryoupage #!!️ #fyp ♬ original sound – 🫶🏻

On August 13th, 2025, X^[3] user @NoCapMediaa reposted the abovementioned TikTok video, captioning it, "Bruh." Over two days, the post received over 58 million views and 251,000 likes (shown below).

Bruh pic.twitter.com/g4GGIfgDTz

— Wild content (@NoCapMediaa) August 13, 2025

Viral quote-tweets and replies surfaced in the following days. For instance, on August 13th, X^[4] user @LilithLovett quoted the video, writing, "Perhaps we did need feminism in the 2000s," gaining over 360,000 likes in two days (shown below).

Also on August 13th, 2025, X^[5] user @NippinJimmsky quoted the post, levying a similar take about feminism, reading, "Watch like 5 seconds of a 2000s reality TV show and you will instantly understand why 2016 feminism was the way it was," gaining over 221,000 likes in two days (shown below).

On that same day, X^[6] user @bumbadum14 posted a photo of Stacy from the video, using the This Was Considered Comically X meme format in the caption that read, "This was comically ugly 20 years ago... Unreal how far we have fallen." The post received over 35,000 likes (shown below).

On August 14th, 2025, X^[7] user @TheOnlyDSC posted a tweet that roughly followed the Model vs. Cashier format, comparing the Buttaface Girl to actress Zendaya. The tweet received over 132,000 likes in a day (shown below).

Also on August 14th, Redditor icey_sawg0034 reposted the original clip to the /r/popculturechat^[8] subreddit, gaining over 11,000 upvotes and 2,800 comments in a day. The top comment, shared by Redditor^[9] Boring_Appearance_89 on that same day, read, "Crazy, she is fucking gorgeous," receiving over 10,000 upvotes in a day.