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2008·Early YouTube

Rage comic

A fixed cast of crudely drawn faces that let anybody tell a story about a small humiliation.

You might remember it as rage face, FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU

A meme

The story

What this was

Comics assembled from a shared set of faces — rage guy, trollface, me gusta, forever alone — drawn badly on purpose so that the format, not the drawing, carried the joke. The dominant meme form of the early 2010s.

It first appeared in 2008, during early YouTube.

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Early YouTube

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Where it came from

There is no original to identify: this spread through many separate posts at once rather than from a first one. ViralWorld holds no copy of it either — what it was, when it spread and what people called it is the record.

Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this, because research established there was not one — it appeared in many places at once.

Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.

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Comics assembled from a shared set of faces — rage guy, trollface, me gusta, forever alone — drawn badly on purpose so that the format, not the drawing, carried the joke. The dominant meme form of the early 2010s.
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