Pepe the Frog

Pepe the Frog is an anthropomorphic frog character from the comic series Boy’s Club by Matt Furie. On 4chan, various illustrations of the frog creature have been used as reaction faces, including Feels Good Man, Sad Frog, Angry Pepe, Smug Frog and Well Meme'd. In 2005, artist Matt Furie created t...

GigaChad

GigaChad is a nickname associated with the art project berlin.1969 / Ernest Khalimov, which is a series of photoshopped photographs of several models created by Russian photographer Krista Sudmalis for her project Sleek'N'Tears. The name "GigaChad" indicates that the person, who was initially assume...

Wojak

Feels Guy, also known as Wojak, is an MS Paint illustration of a bald man with a sad expression on his face. It is often used as a reaction image to represent feelings such as melancholy, regret or loneliness. Wojak memes as a genre have grown to include various remixes and edits to the character --...

Doomer

The Doomer meme is an internet phenomenon that captures the pessimism and existential dread of modern life, particularly among Millennials and Gen Z. Emerging around 2018 on forums like 4chan, the Doomer archetype quickly resonated with audiences facing economic struggles, climate anxiety, and feeli...

Pedobear is a cartoon mascot that became a well-known icon through its usage on 4chan to signal moderators and other users that illegal pornographic content had been posted. Due to the widespread nature of its application, Pedobear has been often misinterpreted as a symbol of pedophilia and lolita c...

Mogging

Mogging or Mog is a slang term describing the act of dominating another person, commonly but not necessarily through the means of appearing more physically fit and attractive than them. Coined by pickup artists and initially popularized within the "manosphere," the term saw gradual popularization on...

Trollface is a rage comic character wearing a mischievous smile that is meant to represent the facial expression of an Internet troll. The image is most commonly used to portray a character as a troll in rage comics, or alternatively, to identify oneself or another participant as such in online disc...

Kappa is a graphic emoticon commonly used by trolls as a postscript to a sentence to convey sarcasm on the live streaming video platform Twitch; it's popularity has also lead to the emoticon being used as a form of spam. The Kappa emote is based on a grey-scale photograph of Josh DeSeno, then an...

͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) is an emoticon created with unicode character symbols. The face is often used to spam forums and image boards, similar to the Japanese word "desu". On 4chan, it has also come to be known as "Le Lenny Face" or "Le Face Face." One of the earliest appearances of the emoticon was posted to...

"Deal With It" is an expression used as a retort in response to someone's disapproval. It is often associated with image macros and animated GIFs in which the subject wears a pair of sunglasses. "Deal with it" as a colloquial phrase has unknown origins. The Idioms and Expressions online database...

Dolan is an MS Paint web comic series featuring a variety of poorly drawn Disney cartoon characters. The main character Dolan, based on Donald Duck, is often portrayed as a psychotic killer and sex addict. According to Uncle Dolan, the comics were originally created during the summer of 2010 by a...

Ouhhh… Husbant… Now We Are Homeress… refers to a series of memes based on photographs of Japanese singer Mogusa Shirose captioned with Engrish monologue in which she accuses her husband of spending too much money on his hobby, resulting in them now being homeless. The most common photo used in the f...

Kekistan is a fictional country invented by users on 4chan's /pol/ board as the tongue-in-cheek ethnic origin of "shitposters" known as "Kekistanis" who worship the ancient Egyptian diety Kek. In late January 2017, Kekistan began widely circulating on Twitter following its promotion by YouTuber Sarg...

"WE WUZ KINGZ", also iterated as "KANGZ N SHIET", is an expression primarily used by users of 4chan's /pol/ (politically incorrect) board to poke fun at those who adhere to the Black Egyptian Hypothesis, an often disputed theory which postulates that Ancient Egypt was a Black civilization and that s...

Coomer refers to a Wojak character described as a person with severe masturbation addiction similar to that of the Cumbrain. Unlike similar 4chan Wojak characters such as 30-Year-Old Boomer and Zoomer, Coomer's description includes multiple parody elements which could not be applied to a real person...

Slowpoke is a Pokemon-themed reaction image response popularized on 4chan as a way to troll other users. The accompanying text often uses the line "Hey guys, did you hear…" before presenting a piece of old or oversaturated information. The character of Slowpoke , a large pink Water/Psychic type c...

Clown Pepe, also known as Honk Honk or Honkler, its original name pepoclown, is a depiction of Pepe the Frog wearing a rainbow wig and red clown nose, which is often accompanied by jokes with corny or cringeworthy punchlines and the emojis 🤡🌎 meant to represent the phrase "Clown World." In Februar...

NPC Wojak is a depiction of the MS Paint character Wojak with a blank stare and facial expression, named after non-player characters within video games. The character is meant to represent people who do not think for themselves or are incapable of having an internal monologue, bearing many similarit...

"Shitposting" is an Internet slang term describing a range of user misbehaviors and rhetoric on forums and message boards that are intended to derail a conversation off-topic, including thread jacking, circlejerking and non-commercial spamming. On 4chan, the byproduct of shitposting is referred to a...

Fsjal is a series of MS paint-style artworks centered around a cartoon character originally depicting The Legend of Zelda's Link with his arms bent in anticipation and his eyes pointing up in eagerness. Since its viral takeoff on 4chan in July 2009, the drawing fad has spawned thousands of user-gene...

Awesome Face, also known as "epic smiley", refers to a drawing of a round yellow-colored smiley face with upturned eyes. It has been predominantly used on sites and web forums like Something Awful and 4chan as a reaction face indicating approval, but can also be used ironically to convey disdain. A...

Feels Good, not to be confused with Feels Good, Man, is an exploitable image of a man looking very satisfied while touching his face with both hands. On 4chan, the image is used to express satisfaction in response to another post. The template image was created from a stock image of a man washing...

"Deus Vult" (“God wills it” in Latin) was a battle cry called out by Crusaders at the declaration of the First Crusade in 1095. Online, the historical phrase has gained popularity among fans of the strategy video game series Crusader Kings, as well as the alt-right camp on Reddit's /r/The_Donald and...

Butthurt Dweller, also known as "Gordo Granudo", is an image macro series that features a photo of a young adult male with a ponytail and glasses accompanied by overlaid text that involves a smug or judgmental statement. The man depicted in the image is Finnish resident KimmoKM, who discussed the...

Obunga refers to a photoshopped image of former U.S. President Barack Obama distorted to resemble roach creatures from the manga Terra Formars, which has been described as a cursed image. The image is frequently displayed along with music from the horror game Five Nights at Freddy's. While the ex...

Me Gusta is a Rage Comic face that is typically used to express one's approval of an awkward or perverse situation. The caption "me gusta" translates to "I like it" in Spanish. In its beginning, the phrase conveyed an odd sense of pleasure in sexually perverse contexts, but the meaning has since bro...

Forever Alone is an exploitable rage comic character that is used to express loneliness and disappointment with life. The face has also been used as an advice animal and inspired the creation of the snowclone template "Forever an X." Forever Alone is considered one of the first major rage comic s...

Navy Seal Copypasta (also known as the “Marine Copypasta”, "Internet Tough Guy Copypasta” and “Gorilla Warfare Copypasta”) is a facetious message containing a series of ridiculous claims and grandiose threats that portray the poster as an Internet tough guy stereotype. In the original post, the writ...

Big Chungus refers to an image of the cartoon character Bugs Bunny, usually captioned with the phrase "Big Chungus" and presented as a game for PlayStation 4 console. The word "chungus" was coined by video game journalist Jim Sterling several years before the meme became popular. Starting in July 20...

Brainlet is an internet slang term primarily used as a pejorative on 4chan when referring to those with limited intelligence, implying they have a small brain. Illustrations of brainlets are often depicted as the character Wojack with an incredibly small head, as opposed to "tfw too intelligent" dra...

Rule 34 is an internet adage in the "Rules of the Internet" list of protocols and conventions which asserts that "if something exists, there is porn of it." The concept is often playfully illustrated in fan art and fanfictions in which fictional TV and cartoon characters engage in sexual behavior, i...

Groyper refers to an exploitable illustration of Pepe the Frog resting his chin on interlinked hands, variations of which are commonly used as profile avatars among the alt-right and new right on Twitter and the alternative social networking service WrongThink. Additionally, Groypers (also known as...

Derpina is a nickname mainly associated with female characters portrayed in rage comics. While there are several iterations of the character with varying facial expressions, Derpina is most often depicted with a wall-eyed derp face or a smile in Japanese-style emoticon (^ ^). Most likely derived...

Loud Nigra is the name given to an audio clip featuring the fake porn actor OG Mudbone screaming while having an orgasm. The clip has been featured on several audio remixes and YTPMV, being also used as screamer and ear rape method on multiplayer games. The original video comes from the defunct p...

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is a Canadian/American flash cartoon series, produced by Studio B Productions (now rebranded DHX), based on the My Little Pony universe. It was developed for television by Lauren Faust, who also did major work on both The Powerpuff Girls and Foster's Home for Imag...

Sheeeit, also known as Tyrone, is a meme that is used in MS Paint templates, similar to Rage Comics, that often portrays a caricatured, stereotypical African-American male saying a lengthened version of the word "shit" that is usually written as ''Sheeeit'', a pre-existing catchphrase. The image pri...

Rules of the Internet is a list of protocols and conventions, originally written to serve as a guide for those who identified themselves with the Internet group Anonymous. The list serves as a summation of popular catchphrases and axioms commonly associated with 4chan. Since there are numerous draft...

"I Took an Arrow in the Knee" is a memorable quote originating from the role-playing video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. An often repeated stock line throughout the game, it went on to inspire the snowclone "I used to X, then I took an arrow to the knee." In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the t...

Okay Guy is a sullen-looking rage comic character who is typically accompanied by the caption "okay." The face is often used in the final panel of comics meant to convey a feeling of hopeless resignation. The illustration is rumored to have originated on the imageboard 4chan, but no archived thre...

The Jessi Slaughter Cyberbullying Controversy refers to series of abusive posts made toward Damien Leonhardt (formerly known as Jessica Leonhardt and the internet aliases Jessi Slaughter and KerliGirl13). At the age of 10, Leonhardt became a target of a massive 4chan raid in July 2010 after launchin...

MonkaS is a Twitch TV emote featuring an illustration of Pepe the Frog appearing frightened while sweating, which is typically used in Twitch chat during moments of high tension in video game matches to express anxiety. The earliest known archived 4chan thread in which the sweating, nervous Pepe...

Philosoraptor is an advice animal image macro series featuring an illustration of a Velociraptor paired with captions depicting the dinosaur as being deeply immersed in metaphysical inquiries or unraveling quirky paradoxes. On October 8th, 2008, the original illustration of the Philosoraptor was...

Sad Keanu is a photoshop meme based on a paparazzi photograph of the Canadian American actor Keanu Reeves sitting on a park bench and enjoying a sandwich by himself. The paparazzi photograph of sullen-looking Reeves eating a sandwich was taken sometime in May 2010 by Splash News photographer Ron...

Boxxy is the online pseudonym of Catie Wayne, a YouTube personality who became known on 4chan in 2009. She claims ownership of several YouTube accounts including ANewHopeee , bodaciousboxxy , and Boxxybabee , where she uploads videos of herself acting in a rotation of different characters including...

The Oh Crap or OMG Face refers to an exploitable image used in rage comics to express an array of feelings including astonishment, revelation, or sheer rage. It is often paired with red or white text, summing up the character's thoughts. It is also used to represent a Gropaga , or follower of Inglip...

Socially Awkward Penguin is an advice animal image macro series featuring a penguin lacking both social skills and self esteem. The text typically narrates uncomfortable life situations, highlighting an exceptionally clumsy or inelegant response. The original image was taken by nature photographe...

"Kek" is a translation of the acronym "LOL" (laugh out loud) when reading text written by members of the Horde faction as an Alliance player in the online multiplayer game World of Warcraft (WoW). “Kek” is also associated with the unrelated Turkish snack food Topkek, which is often discussed on the...

Are You Serious Face, also known as "Seriously?", is a black and white drawing of a perplexed looking man or woman that is often used in rage comics. It is generally used as a reaction to overwhelming ignorance or stupidity. The original male version of the face was based off a scene where David...

Reaction Images are images or animated gifs that are meant to portray a specific emotion in response to something that has been said. They are commonly used in discussion threads in a similar fashion to emoticons. Reaction images have their roots in the pictorial representation of facial expressi...

"Cool Story, Bro" is a catchphrase often seen in image macros as a sarcastic response on message boards or in comments to posts that are deemed boring, pointless or too long to read (TL;DR). The phrase "cool story" used as a sarcastic response to a narrative was first seen in the 2001 film Zoolan...