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The challenge accepted face is a stick figure with a conceited-looking facial expression and arms crossed. The face originated from the catchphrase “challenge accepted!” said by TV’s [[How_I_Met_Your_Mother|How I Met Your Mother]] character Barney Stinson. The first “challenge accepted” rage comic was documented on November 12th, 2010, posted by “Body Building” forums’ MK. Later, a “Fuck Yeah Challenge Accepted Guy” blog was created on tumblr, and a Challenge Accepted Facebook page was made. |
The challenge accepted face is a stick figure with a conceited-looking facial expression and arms crossed. The face originated from the catchphrase “challenge accepted!” said by TV’s [[How_I_Met_Your_Mother|How I Met Your Mother]] character Barney Stinson. The first “challenge accepted” rage comic was documented on November 12th, 2010, posted by “Body Building” forums’ MK. Later, a “Fuck Yeah Challenge Accepted Guy” blog was created on tumblr, and a Challenge Accepted Facebook page was made. |
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| ⚫ | The face is used in comics to show the rage character acting as if he has been dared or challenged to do something without actually being dared or challenged, and the rage character accepts the challenge presented by making a smug face and crossing his arms. for example, if someone tells you that you can’t do something, the Challenge Accepted rage comic can be used to “accept the challenge” and prove them wrong. |
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| ⚫ | The face is used in comics to show the rage character acting as if he has been dared or challenged to do something without actually being dared or challenged, and the rage character accepts the challenge presented by making a smug face and crossing his arms. for example, if someone tells you that you can’t do something, the Challenge Accepted rage comic can be used to “accept the challenge” and prove them wrong. |
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== Picture Rage Comics == |
== Picture Rage Comics == |
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A rage comic is a short comic utilizing a growing set of pre-made cartoon faces, or rage faces, which usually express rage or some other simple emotion or activity.[1] These comics have spread much in the same way that internet memes do, and several memes have originated in this medium. They have been characterized by Ars Technica as an "accepted and standardized form of online communication."[2]
Rage comics' popularity has been attributed to their use as vehicles for humorizing shared experiences.[3] The range of expression and standardized, easily identifiable faces has allowed uses such as teaching English as a foreign language.[4]
History
Although used on numerous websites such as Reddit, cheezburger.com, ifunny.mobi, ESS.MX, and 9GAG, the source of the rage comic has largely been attributed to 4chan in mid-2007. One very notable site is Ragestache, the most popular of the Spartz Media sites, which is devoted exclusively to rage comics and has over 1,900 pages, as of January 2014.
Phrase Rage Comics
Examples
Like A Boss:
The origin of the “like a boss” rage comic comes from a parody music video by the group The Lonely Island: Like a Boss. In this music video the boss, Andy Samberg, goes over his daily activities which progress from mundane office tasks to a variety of impossible happenings. [5]
Usage:
The “Like a Boss” comic is used in used as both a phrase and a picture. The phrase version of the " Like a Boss” comic is used by captioning an unusual photograph as "LIKE A BOSS".
Challenge Accepted:
The challenge accepted face is a stick figure with a conceited-looking facial expression and arms crossed. The face originated from the catchphrase “challenge accepted!” said by TV’s How I Met Your Mother character Barney Stinson. The first “challenge accepted” rage comic was documented on November 12th, 2010, posted by “Body Building” forums’ MK. Later, a “Fuck Yeah Challenge Accepted Guy” blog was created on tumblr, and a Challenge Accepted Facebook page was made.
Usage:
The face is used in comics to show the rage character acting as if he has been dared or challenged to do something without actually being dared or challenged, and the rage character accepts the challenge presented by making a smug face and crossing his arms. for example, if someone tells you that you can’t do something, the Challenge Accepted rage comic can be used to “accept the challenge” and prove them wrong.
Picture Rage Comics
Picture rage comics are a type of rage comic that are simple comics drawn to display real life scenarios in a very simplistic, funny way. They were started in 2008 and became popular in 2009. Many faces for many real life situations have emerged, such as “forever alone,” “smile,” and many others.
Examples
The Obama Not Bad:
The Obama Not Bad rage comic face is a drawing of President Barack Obama wearing a suit and bowtie making a sturgeon face. This drawing is based on a face that Obama made in May 2011 while visiting the United Kingdom.
This rage comic was created to resemble a sturgeon face Obama made in reaction to something pleasantly surprising at the Buckingham Palace while visiting the Queen of England. A picture was taken of Obama making this face and it soon became the “Picture of the Day” by The Telegraph, becoming popular quickly. A couple days later, an active Reddit user posted a rage comic with Obama’s sturgeon face and the words “Not Bad” written below. After this Reddit post, many coming strips and other similar platforms* posted the picture to their websites; this led the rage comic to go viral. This led the words “Not Bad” to be associated with many other sturgeon faces already flowing around the web.
The Obama Not Bad face is usually used to demonstrate a feeling of being pleasantly surprised. In other words, someone will use this rage face when they see something they like, that they did not particularly anticipate to be that impressive.
See also
References
- ^ Boutin, Paul (May 9, 2012), "Put Your Rage Into a Cartoon and Exit Laughing", The New York Times
- ^ Connor, Tom (11 March 2012). "Fuuuuuuuu: The Internet anthropologist's field guide to "rage faces"". Ars Technica. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
- ^ Hoevel, Ann (11 October 2011). "The Know Your Meme team gets all scientific on teh intarwebs". GeekOut. CNN. Retrieved 9 December 2011.
- ^ Wolford, Josh (2 November 2011). "Teaching The English Language With Rage (Comics)". WebProNews. Retrieved 10 November 2011.
- ^ "Like a Boss". GeekOut. Know Your Memes. 18 March 2014. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
External links
- Rage Comics on F7U12
- Rage Comics
- Rage Comics, sliding interface
- Rage comics on Know Your Meme
- Rage Comics explained.
- Rage comic maker.
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