Far from being insignificant doodles, the faces are now an accepted and standardized form of online communication used to tell stories that can be quick and funny or serious and deeply personal.īecause they have become so ubiquitous, and because any surfer worth his salt should have a working knowledge of top Internet memes, we've created this Field Guide to Rage Faces.
The amateur cartoons, made using a recurring set of expressive characters, are used by a growing international community. Rage comics are no longer as popular or ubiquitous as they were in the late 2000s and early 2010s, but they are still seen throughout mainstream culture, even used in advertisements by major corporations.Once merely obscure inside jokes on the image board 4chan, the "rage face" comics that now appear widely on the Internet have have been toughened by natural selection as they evolved into a dominant species of Internet meme. Though rage comics began on 4chan and can be found all over the internet, their unofficial home is on the “f7u12” section of Reddit, which stands for FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU (Seven F’s, 12 U’s), the so-called proper number of F’s and U’s to use when spelling out a particularly piqued fuck. However, the intent of rage comics has never been to create something original, but rather, to use familiar experiences to generate laughs. Nor is there one consistent sense of humor in them rage comics span a wide variety of different themes and styles, with many camps not liking the comics created by other camps. There is no one person who makes them or official creator. Part of the success of rage comics lies in the fact that they are easy to create. The joke, in all of these comics, tends to be the reader’s ability to relate to the experience-and the rage comic character’s extreme reaction represents what we all are feeling on the inside when dealing with life’s uncomfortable and stressful moments. Situations can include a trip to the DMV, getting pulled over by a cop, or telling one’s mother that you’re moving back in. Most rage comics stories focus on small, often real-life episodes, usually an awkward social interaction, blown out of cringeworthy proportion. This first four-panel rage comic depicted a person using a toilet, resulting in the toilet water splashing back up, leading to the expression of rage shown by Rage Guy.ĭespite their name, rage comics aren’t exclusively depictions of “rage,” as most characters express other, though still intense, emotions. The name of these rage comics comes from the fact that the very first rage comic depicted only one character, now known as either “FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU” or “Rage Guy,” who is indeed a very angry fellow. The website Know Your Meme identifies eight major rage comic faces/characters. Though simplistic and exaggerated, many of the faces, like the “Me Gusta” face, are grotesquely hyper-detailed to play up their humor and shock value. By their nature, these comics are drawn with deliberate crudeness in Microsoft Paint or a similarly basic image editor-and the humor tends to be just as crude. The protagonists of r age comics are a cast of recurring figures, usually caricatured faces. They took off in online message boards like 4chan and Reddit in 2008. From the sobbing “Forever Alone” character to the furious “FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU” guy to the evil, blue-faced “I LIED!” figure, rage comics are short, usually four- to six- panel web comics that humorously depict everyday situations that are generally exasperating, depressing, or awkward.
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