

More "rage faces" have been introduced, and by the early-mid 2010s, hundreds of rage comics were produced and uploaded online every day, alongside LOLCats and other memes. The original rage face was the "Rage Guy", to whom the format owes its title.

Originating as a collection of anonymous webcomics posted on 4chan back in 2008, the format quickly spread across the web, thanks to its accessibility (pretty much anyone with Photoshop and online access can produce a rage comic within minutes) and the catchiness of many "rage faces". Essentially a Cut-and-Paste Comic format with a shared pool of recurring face sprites, most rage comics tell short anecdotal stories with a punchline from their authors' lives. "rage face comics" are not a single webcomic per se but a massive agglomeration of unrelated webcomics by different authors across the interwebs, united only by their distinct style and topics. Example usage is "le walking around the house" and "le browsing knowyourmeme".Rage Comics a.k.a. Most rage comic creators tend to add a "le" at the beginning of a sentence which signifies an action or as a replacement for the word "the". Generators can be found on QuickMeme and MemeGenerator. The most successful examples are Forever Alone and Y U NO Guy. Some ragefaces found their way to become successful Advice Animal-style image macros. 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. "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.
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A full catalogue of rage faces can be found in the Dan Awesome's Ragemaker site.Īs a result of the popularity of rage comics and the need for an easier method for their creation, several "rage makers" have been developed. Some of the earliest notable examples were the Everything went better than expected and Fuck 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"). While most "rage faces" are not used to express rage, the name has been used due to their Rage Guy origins. As the name suggests, the comics' stories were mostly about circumstances that lead to anger or rage. The first amateur made comics date back to 2008 on 4chan's /b/ board with the introduction of FFFUUUU Rageguy 4-panes.
