Rage comic
You might remember it as rage face, rage faces, Rage comics and 1 more
The first face, Rage Guy, says “FFFFFFFUUUUUUUU-”
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2008·Early YouTube
A fixed cast of crudely drawn faces that let anybody tell a story about a small humiliation.
At a glanceThe facts
- Spread in
- 2008
- Format
- Meme
- Where it started
- 4chan’s /b/ board, in 2008
- What it said
- The first face, Rage Guy, says “FFFFFFFUUUUUUUU-”
- Also known as
- Baoman, in China
- Origin
- No single original
- Available
- Not held by ViralWorld
What this wasThe story
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.
Why it matteredWhat changed
A fixed cast of badly drawn faces meant anybody could make a comic without being able to draw. They were most popular in the early 2010s, and in China a site built on them was receiving thousands of submissions a day.
TimelineIn order
- Made
The first rage comic is posted to 4chan: four panels ending on a furious face. Others repost it with new stories.1
- Mainstream
One of the faces, the Y U NO guy, appears on a roadside billboard advertising a chat service.1
- Took off
Searches for rage comics, the rage guy and the troll face all peak in the same month.1
- Taken down
The Chinese rage-comic site baozoumanhua.com, which had been receiving thousands of submissions a day, is banned.1
What it createdWhat came out of it
- The meme it became TrollfaceMeme · 2008
The face was drawn as one panel of a rage comic called Trolls and lifted out of it.
LegacyWhat it left behind
- Because the faces are standardised and easy to read, the comics have been used to teach English as a foreign language.1
More from hereIn this collection
Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · copied, redrawn and reused until the original stopped mattering · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later
Where it came fromWhat we know
This spread through many posts rather than one identifiable original. The example shown is one surviving copy and is not claimed as the first.
Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this. It spread through many posts rather than from one identifiable original.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.
More from 2008You were there
ConnectedFollow it further
- Spread by 4chanPhenomenon · 2003
The first rage comic was posted to 4chan’s /b/ board in 2008, where others reposted and altered it.
SourcesWhat was read
Sources last read on . That date is about the history on this page. Whether the media still plays is checked separately and can change any day. How ViralWorld documents things