A FAMILIAR MEME. A NEW CONTEXT.
Fap Guy is a rage comics character with a tense face and head thrown back, surrounded by repeated "fap, fap, fap" captions. It expresses extreme pleasure with a crude, openly sexual undertone, so it circulates mostly in narrow circles of internet humor.
Add your captionThe editor opens with this picture. You can download the finished meme as a PNG.
The character is drawn in comic-book style: eyes squeezed shut or rolled back, mouth half-open in a tense grimace, head thrown back. Around it are often placed short captions of "fap, fap, fap," which set an ironic sound backdrop. The expression looks both blissful and pained at once.
The catalog still shows a fragment of the comic Now Kiss, in which a large face with a wide-open mouth accompanies a scene of apologies and a demand for a kiss. It's this grimace that became the basis for Fap Guy: the character borrowed the facial expression but carried it over into a different, overtly sexual theme.
The character itself is tied to the rage comics genre and appeared in 2010. The facial expression was borrowed from the Now Kiss character, created in February 2010. In May of that year, a FunnyJunk user going by TehEman published the first comic featuring Fap Guy, captioned "FAP FAP," and from that moment the character began to spread.
The vocabulary itself predates the meme. The word "fap" is onomatopoeic slang for masturbation, and its earliest known use is considered to be the webcomic Sexy Losers' "Video Girl Etchi" from April 28, 1999. The term entered Urban Dictionary in 2002 and has since been widely used in internet humor and on community sites.
The origin of the grimace itself is considered only partly established: the link to Now Kiss is confirmed, but who exactly drew the first versions of Fap Guy isn't specified in accounts of the meme.
In 2011 Smosh published a compilation of image macros using the word, and in 2012 videos like "Top 10 Games to Fap To" from Machinima and "17 GIFs That Look Like They're Fapping" from MTV showed how the term had made its way into mainstream media. That's how the joke moved beyond its original communities.
The character spread mainly through comics and reaction images on imageboards and news communities. It was convenient to use in discussions where someone wanted to express delight or irony about something someone else said, so it quickly became a template.
The meme is used to show an extreme degree of enjoyment of something, often with crude irony. It's posted in response to a particularly good joke or an unexpectedly pleasant surprise, exaggerating the delight for comic effect.
Unlike more neutral reactions, Fap Guy implies an ironic and bluntly crude tone, which is why it's chosen in narrow chats and groups where that kind of humor is accepted. In public spaces the meme is usually used cautiously.
The main joke rests on the contrast between a mundane situation and an openly exaggerated reaction. The exaggerated facial expression and sound captions turn a personal subject into a grotesque frame, which comes across more as a joke about the genre itself than a serious statement.
The meme also reflects the general traits of rage comics: simple lines, recognizable faces, and universal emotions. Thanks to that, it's understood even without knowing the source material, and it remains one of the notable examples of the early internet's unapologetic humor.
A comic series where a boy bursts in and says something to his father, who slowly turns his head from the newspaper with a frozen stare. The joke is the contrast between the child'
Read the story
“ooaoaa) mmm))” is a short drawn scene and a sound resembling an inarticulate sigh of pleasure. In the picture, a person reaches a hand toward a small object near the shoulder; the
Read the story
A three-panel comic of a little white figure surrounded by colored shapes standing for problems, fears, and stress. In the finale a yellow shape hugs him, turning the story into a
Read the story
I'm Watching You is a rage comics face with narrowed eyes and fingers pointed at the viewer. It expresses suspicion and a joking threat aimed at whoever has just committed a minor
Read the story
Four-panel comics about an overconfident guy who brags or takes on a task, fails, and sinks into despair. The final panel, with him clutching his head at a table of bottles, is the
Read the story
A two-panel comic: two characters in blue and orange T-shirts with tense faces shake hands, while in the second panel, beside them, a character in a green T-shirt sits on the floor
Read the story
I Lied Face is a rage comics character with a devilishly pleased smirk, showing that he has just lied and is secretly enjoying it. It is used to signal a sly lie delivered with a s
Read the story
Rage Comics is a genre of simple MS Paint comics in which "face" characters convey rage, irritation, delight, or confusion. It emerged on 4chan in 2008 and became a defining phenom
Read the story
Drawn character with a mustache and goatee expressing bewilderment, used as a reaction to blatant stupidity or ignorance. It appeared on Reddit in 2011, based on a participant's ex
Read the story
Rage Comics face with a frowning character, pursed lips and furrowed brows, expressing skepticism and irritation at someone's stupidity. It appeared in spring 2010 and became one o
Read the story
A rage-comic face from around 2009 with a huge head and an indignant grimace, spraying cereal flakes while objecting to something. It illustrates irritation, disagreement, and bein
Read the story
Rage face of a stick figure with crossed arms and a smug smirk, showing readiness to take on a difficult task. The phrase comes from How I Met Your Mother, where Barney Stinson, pl
Read the story
Series of simple drawings of a man sitting at an old monitor, showing irritation, bewilderment or grim approval. They became a universal reaction to internet events and remain amon
Read the story
Derp Face is a rage comics face with crossed eyes and a stuck-out tongue that signals stupidity, inattention, or confusion. Its female version is called Derpina and is recognizable
Read the story