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12 March 2012

Fffuuuuuuuu: The Internet anthropologist's field guide to "rage faces." I'm always curious about how memes and sayings and so on crop up and then travel all around the web.
I apparently do not hang out in the fashionable corners of the WWW.
posted by tortillathehun 12 March | 12:21
I've never encountered these at all. A strange and somewhat interesting thing.

I wish more folklorists studied internet memes. Because the web is such a good little Petri dish to understanding exactly how cultural memes develop. We wonder how we got pantheons of gods and epic mythology cycles and superstitions, well, this is it.
posted by Miko 12 March | 16:40
I've seen a couple of these around, but not much and had no idea they were a 'thing'. Perhaps they are a thing on Reddit only and this is someone's attempt to force a meme? If so (and I'm only guessing, of course), it won't work, because memes can't be artificially created I don't think. They have to grow organically.
posted by dg 12 March | 17:40
These faces are common usage in Reddit and several of the chans. They're a useful shorthand for reactions, like emoticons with enough depth to stand in for characters in a story.
posted by workerant 13 March | 09:07
I know I've seen them in other places, but I've probably had the most exposure to them via MLKSHK.
posted by BoringPostcards 13 March | 09:59
Been there, done that. || Draw A Stickman Ep 2!

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