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.

You can pretty much find rage comics anywhere on the internet if you search Google, but here are a few sites that have them.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. It just kept its name from the first “ffffuuuu” guy. In the end from its origin, even though the punch lines at the end are called rage faces, they all are not meant to represent rage. The Rage Comic has a great affect on all cultures because the different rage makers give people something to get into to express feeling in a different way. When the Rage Comics first started to spread and become popular is when it had its greatest cultural impact, although it still has an impact today. Rage Comics have came a long way, too long of a way that it is losing its social meaning. To conclude, Rage comics are used to take serious moments and put them into a comic to make it not so serious and funny. The comics that are mutated for the better represent great new context because the more rage faces the better you can describe your scenario in a comic with few words. Some people don’t grasp the concept of the rage comics so when the comics are sometimes mutated it’s been for the worse and not for the better. For example, there are quite a few rage faces and when making rage comics you are expected to use the correct rage face or character that will fit your scenario.Īlso people have taken it out of hand because when you think of a comic you think of something simple with few words. In some cases the rage comics’ mutations fit well into new context, and then on the other hand some are taking way out of proportion. The original context of the meme, Rage Comics was to humor others with your ridiculous stories that may or may not have happened to you. The rage comics use a different language tied in with the cultural norms that we all understand to create humor.

Using derp or herp in the rage comics is also a form humor showing social indifference by not caring. In actuality derp is used to represent stupidity, but in the rage comics it is used as expression to represent unimportant dialogue, just as blah blah is used. For example, in almost every comic there is going to be some form of derp or herp. This meme in my opinion has made its own statement because it has certain words that are used in the comics that mean certain things. This character is usually used in a situation responding to an awkward or disgusting event. This shows a cultural difference because you do not need to know Spanish to know what me gusta mean. One known cultural reference that the rage comics represent is the me gusta guy. Usually at the end of a comic there is a punch line (rage face) that represents an emotion because of the situation that just occurred. The responses are displayed through the rage faces and rage characters. In normal life one person may do something and expect a certain response, well in the rage comics it is similar. The cultural reference in these Rage Comics is used to make fun of society resulting in humor. For example, the forever alone guy represents disappointment and loneliness in life and may be used in a comic where a person goes through a break up.

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