This quest paper covers the most important topic in the field of mechanics. It is the nonlinear viscoelastic wave equations with variable degenerate damping and sources acting in both equations. We seek to prove that this system has no solution with positive initial energy. So, to establish our goal, we utilize the methods and techniques used by Said‐Houari in (J. Nonlinear. Differ. Equ. Appl, vol. 18, 2011, pp. 659‐684.).