Fuck Yea

About

Fuck Yea is a series of four-pane cartoon strips featuring a stick figure looking rather self-complacent and quite frankly, for all the right reasons. Originally posted via /b/ board on February 11, 2010, these cartoons illustrate all sorts of triumphant moments in our daily lives that make us feel awesome, like when you wake up a few seconds before the morning alarm goes off. This phenomenon can be also seen as the antithesis to Rageguycomics, another four-pane series originating from 4chan circa late 2008.

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Aww Yea Guy

About

Aww Yea Guy is a character found in web comics based on a drawing of complacent looking man leaning backwards and shouting “AAAWWW YYYEEAA”. This image is typically used to express a feeling of accomplishment or success in various situations, most notably through Ragetoon comics, or other four-pane images. Also see: Fuck Yeah Guy

Origin

Urban Dictionary

The exclamatory phrase “aww yea” was first registered on Urban Dictionary in September 2003:

This word is almost as versatile as “fuck” or “word.” It can be used in a variety of ways, including (but not limited to):

1. Expressing excitement
2. A congratulatory exclamation
3. Agreement

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Sometime in December of 2010, someone posted a vectorized version of J. Jonah Jameson, Peter Parker’s boss, from the popular film Spiderman 2 on Reddit.

Spread

Aww Yeah Guy comics have been featured in various humor blogs and forums, including Urlesque, Reddit (f7u12), 4chan and Funnyjunk among others.

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Sweet Jesus Face

About

Sweet Jesus Face, also known as “Sweet Jesus Have Mercy”, is a rage comic face that is often used to express overwhelming yearning or enjoyment. It bears many similarities with the rage comic Me Gusta face.

Origin

The face originally appeared in a comic titled Nobody is Right^[3] that was shared on deviantArt on September 16th, 2008 by the user 3-Angled-Blue.

Spread

It was used in an exploitable comic titled Troll Bait made by user “Strongside” of the Facepunch studio boards on March 5th, 2009.^[1]

The smile was flipped upside down, and the left eye pupil was moved to the far side of the eye to make the “sweet jesus” version. This version was first posted to Reddit by user “Volco” titled “Sweet Jesus Have Mercy!”^[2] on February 5th, 2011. It was a multi-pane rage comic about the feeling of being really hungry, and finally having pizza arrive.

 

Usage

Due to the similarity to Me Gusta, the use of the Sweet Jesus face has been a matter of contention within the Reddit f7u12 community. A common argument is that Me Gusta should be reserved for enjoyment in something perverted, dirty or just strange, while Sweet Jesus should be used to express a more general sense of intense pleasure.

If You Know What I Mean

About

“If You Know What I Mean” is a rage comic character based on a still frame of actor Rowan Atkinson portraying the fictional character Mr. Bean. It is used to point out a double entendre in a post or image macro, commonly in the form of sexual innuendo. Although originally created as a rage face, the character is also used in vertical comics in a similar manner to the You Don’t Say? and We’ve Got a Badass Over Here reaction images.

Origin

The first instance of the rage character was submitted by 9gag^[1] user aldik101 in a post titled “Let’s watch a movie, if you know what I mean” on January 28th, 2012, featuring a screen capture of Rowan Atkinson from the 2007 comedy film Mr. Bean’s Holiday (shown below, left). As of November 7th 2012, the post accumulated over 43,000 likes, 3,300 Facebook shares and 240 comments. The same day, an extended version of aldik101’s comic was posted by 9gag^[2]user elyo11, who added a vectorized version of Atkinson’s expression along with the caption “If you know what I mean” (shown below, right).

 

Colloquial Usage

The phrase “if you know what I mean” has been colloquially used to point out a sexual double entendre for many years prior to the creation of the Mr. Bean rage face. On August 1st, 2003, Urban Dictionary^[19] user Tommy Harkness submitted an entry for the phrase, defining it as a “way to make a statement ‘dirty’.” TV Tropes^[20] also includes the phrase as part of the “Lampshaded Double Entendre”^[20] trope, describing it as “a remark to ensure that the audience spots the hidden meaning,” similar to “That’s What She Said.”

Spread

On January 29th, 2012, a template of the rage face was posted on the Internet humor site Meme-O-Rama.^[6] On January 31st, FunnyJunk^[3] user potatoos submitted a vertical comic using the rage face to the Internet humor site. On February 1st, 9gag^[9] user iv4eto_19_95 submitted a post titled “If you know what I mean,” which included a poem accompanied by the Mr. Bean rage face (shown below). Within nine months, the post received over 56,900 up votes and 7,200 Facebook shares.

On February 23rd, the Internet humor site Smosh^[8] published a post titled “Best Of The ‘If You Know What I Mean’ Face!”,^[8] featuring notable examples from the series. As of November 7th, 2012, a Facebook page^[17] titled “If You Know What I Mean” has accumulated over 73,000 likes.

Notable Examples

Additional examples can be found on FunnyJunk,^[10] 9gag,^[11] MemeCenter,^[12] MemeBase^[21] and the f7u12 subreddit.^[13] Advice Animal templates using the image can be found on Quickmeme,^[14][15] MemeGenerator^[18] and Zipmeme.^[16]

  
 
  

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Oh Stop It

About

Oh Stop It, You is a rage comic character that conveys self-modesty or humble gratitude.

Origin

The “Oh Stop It You” character was created by William and posted to his art blog E_X_T_R_A WRLD^[1] on December 23rd, 2010. The Tumblr post has accrued 2757 notes as of July 2012.

Spread

The character was used by deviantArt user Fyi-Sus^[12] on February 14th, 2011 in an image (shown below, left) describing how she responds to compliments, however, it didn’t make its first appearance in rage comics until September 2nd of that year. The comic (shown below, right) was posted on Memebase^[2] and depicts a girl’s reaction after her friend asks her to send him photos of herself in the shower.

 

Two Facebook fan pages were created for the face^[3][4] in November 2011 and a third Facebook fan page^[13] in March 2012, which have accrued more than 30,000 likes in aggregate as of July 2012. Throughout the first half of the year, the character has been featured on a number of rage comic hubsites like My Face When^[5], Reddit^[6], Rage Generator^[7] and Ragestache^[8], as well as on general internet humor sites 9gag^[9], Memebase^[10] and Tumblr^[11]under the tag “oh stop it you.”

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Hey You, Stop It

The notability of “Oh Stop It You” character went onto inspire its inverse counterpart “Hey You, Stop It” that is sometimes used to express frustration in rage comics. Since its debut on Rage Generator^[14] on February 5th, 2012, the character has appeared in several comics featured by FunnyJunk^[15], MemeCenter^[16] and 9gag.^[17]

Cuteness Overload

About

Cuteness Overload is a rage comic character often used to depict the emotional responses after seeing babies or animals that are deemed adorable, a sad story or a heartwarming moment.

Origin

One of the earliest archived appearances of Cuteness Overload was posted to the /r/Pics subreddit^[1] on September 23rd, 2011 as a response to a photo of a dog appearing to drink out of a straw with the caption “i’mma just take a sip okay?” Before it was archive, it recieved more than 8,100 upvotes and 803 points overall.

Spread

On October 1st, 2011, the face was added to the database All The Rage Faces.^[3] Four days later, the dog image macro was reposted on the Audi Zine forums^[2] in a funny photo thread. In late 2011, Memebase^[8] posted its first Cuteness Overload macro depicting a young man’s reaction to rewatching Mustafa’s death scene in The Lion King as an adult.

Rage comics and image macros using the Cuteness Overload character have appeared extensively on We Know Memes^[4], the Rage Comics subreddit^[5], Cheezburger^[6], FunnyJunk^[7] and Meme Blender.^[9] Additionally, the character has appeared in an advice animal image macro series with emotionally overwhelmed captions. As of May 2013, the Cuteness Overload pages on Quickmeme^[10] and Meme Generator^[11] have nearly 400 submissions between them.

  

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