“Upon discovering what was left of my favorite subreddit - decrepit, defunct, rampant with trolls - I stumbled upon a user in the comments sections of various posts. Chase spent most of his middle school years laughing at rage comics, so it was heartbreaking to find the subreddit left for dead, a feeding ground for those who’d wish to tarnish its memory. The front page was turned into a wasteland of low-effort posts, often completely unrelated to the titular comic format, each equipped with comment sections stuffed with juvenile bickering. As rage comics had slowly dissipated from internet culture, a roving band of shitposters had moved in to squat on the bones of a dead meme. That puts it above r/halo, r/doctorwho, r/adventuretime, and dozens of other vibrant fan communities on the site.īut when Chase, an 18-year-old from the Midwest, returned to the subreddit last year, he found it in disarray. The epicenter for rage comics, one of the defining fixtures of Reddit’s native language, stands tall with 852,000 members. On this day Prince William and Kate Middleton were married.By sheer numbers, r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu will always be one of the most populated forums on the internet. Princess Beatrice's Royal Wedding Hat: Birth of a Meme Of course, the same could be said about practically every meme that has ever existed, except Princess Beatrice's hat. In 1857, in the midst of the greatest political strife a young nation had yet known, a group of… Magazine Founded by Ralph Waldo Emerson Now Publishing Rage Comics Rage comics are popular not because they are in any way interesting, but because people (and magazines) use them to show that they are on top of the latest internet "thing," delighting hordes of internet users who giggle like a four-year-old supremely pleased with himself for recognizing the outline of a rubber duck in a picture book.
Then there are the stupid goddamn faces that make up the actual rage comic format. Men are called "derp," and women "derpette." LULZ. Instead of being actually funny, rage comics perform a sad pantomime of humor by referencing a million internet in-jokes. Right now, the second most popular comic is a joke about a woman gagging during a blowjob another features the punchline: "BASTARD. The New York Times urges us to check out Reddit's section dedicated to rage comics. The problem with rage comics is that they are supposed to be funny, from what I can tell. I do, however, have a problem with rage comics, which make me want to be lowered on a rope ladder from a helicopter into the blades of another helicopter hovering just below, as only the pain of being hacked to death by a helicopter blade from the feet up would be enough to push any thought of how terrible rage comics are from my mind. They're just quilting shit like millions have quilted before them. But unoriginality isn't their true crime. Some critics take issue with the fact that rage comics are not 'original' or 'creative.' It's true that rage comics, like most memes, are perpetrated by hacks. What this says about who makes and enjoys rage comics should be enough to explain why rage comics are the worst thing on the internet but I will continue. People on the internet have made millions of these things, the majority of which feature pathetic male leads who get rejected by women they have a crush on for being excruciatingly awkward. Rage comics are a popular meme where people cut and paste a pre-drawn catalogue of cartoon faces into comic strips to create boring stories about the problems they face in their everyday lives. So, the New York Times published a long article yesterday about how great rage comics are but I've been too busy slamming my head into the side of a parked UPS van to write anything about it until now.
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