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. It was suspected that users may have started trolling the EFLcomics subreddit and a thread was posted titled "How to tell if user is actually Japanese, or just trolling" on October 17th.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. “Rage comics are special because at their core they consist of well known faces or expressions which are meant to show universal emotions of varying degrees under a wide variety of circumstances.” The Daily Dot published an interview with Professor Stillar where he explains why he chose rage comics as a teaching tool on October 17th. Hilariously absurd" that linked directly to the EFLcomics subreddit and has received 2,908 up votes as of October 18th, 2011.
On October 18th, 2011, a thread was posted to the r/bestof subreddit titled "Non-native speakers practice English using rage comics. On October 3rd, 2011, English instructor Scott Stillar created a subreddit titled "EFL comics" for his Japanese ESL students from the University of Tsukuba, Japan to learn english. The most popular makers are the Memebase Ragebuilder and Dan Awesome's Ragemaker. Rage MakersĪs a result of the popularity of rage comics and the need for an easier method for their creation, several "rage makers" have been developed. The "rage comics” brand, Baozou Manhua, was censored on multiple online platforms for a 58-second video posted which used rage comics to joke about two Chinese civil war figures: Ye Ting, an army general, and Dong Cunrui, a People’s Liberation Army soldier who destroyed an enemy bunker in a suicide bombing. On May 1st, 2018, The National People's Congress of China passed and enacted the “Heroes and Martyrs Protection Act,” making it illegal to make jokes at the expense of communist heroes or martyrs.
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On May 9th, 2012, Paul Boutin of the New York Times published an article teaching readers how to edit their own rage comic strips to relieve stress. The app lets you view, rate and share Rage Comics.
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In February of the same year, The Rage Comics App was made available for free download in the apple store. On February 25th, 2012, Youtuber PistolShrimps upload the first episode of 6 entitled "Rage Comics – In Real Life." This first upload garnered 132,000 likes and 13,000,000 views within the first six years (shown below). On December 24th, 2011, Facebook launched rage comics stickers for use in Facebook Messenger.
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A full catalogue of rage faces can be found in the Dan Awesome's Ragemaker site.
Some of the earliest notable examples were the Everything went better than expected and F*ck Yea characters. This allowed users to submit their own original rage comics, which resulted in the creation of a large number of new characters. In January 2009, Reddit launched the "FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU" subreddit (widely known as "f7u12").
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