Rage Comics are series of web comics with char­ac­ters, some­times referred to as “rage faces”, that are often cre­ated with sim­ple draw­ing soft­ware such as MS Paint. The comics are typ­i­cally used to tell sto­ries about real life expe­ri­ences, and end with a humor­ous punch­line. It has become increas­ingly pop­u­lar to cre­ate the comics using web appli­ca­tions often referred to as “rage comic gen­er­a­tors” or “rage mak­ers”.

The first ama­teur made comics date back to 2008 on 4chan’s /b/ board with the intro­duc­tion of FFFUUUU Rageguy 4-panes. As the name sug­gests, the comics’ sto­ries were mostly about cir­cum­stances that lead to anger or rage. While most “rage faces” are not used to express rage, the name has been used due to their Rage Guy origins.

In Jan­u­ary 2009, Red­dit launched the “FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU” sub­red­dit. This allowed users to sub­mit their own orig­i­nal rage comics, which resulted in the cre­ation of a large num­ber of new char­ac­ters. Some of the ear­li­est notable exam­ples were the Every­thing went bet­ter than expected and F*ck Yea char­ac­ters. (Q)

Here’s a few more exam­ples of pop­u­lar rage comics:

Me Gusta:

For­ever alone:

Gay Rage:

Fap Fap Fap Rage: