Line #9 YMMV/RageComics

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1	* DiscreditedMeme: The whole concept, to a certain extent. Varies based on what parts of the internet you frequent. Although as seen in PopularityPolynomial below, the characters are still being used, albeit often in ways that [[TakeThat satirize or mock]] the old Rage Comic format.
2	** However, it has made some occasional comebacks, like the [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cover-yourself-in-oil Cover Yourself In Oil]] Troll Science comic, or the horror oriented [[WebOriginal/{{Trollge}} Trollge Incidents]].
3	* MemeticMutation: The faces used in Rage Comics (e.g. Trollface) can be found all over the internet. In fact, throughout the first half of UsefulNotes/TheNewTens they were pretty much synonymous with "meme", which may be why they were revived in The New Twenties despite the rage comic format being a DiscreditedMeme by that point.
4	* MemeticTroll: Who else but TropeCodifier Trollface?
5	* PopularityPolynomial:
6	** By the latter half of UsefulNotes/TheNewTens, rage comics had basically disappeared, and were widely accepted to have outright died out by the middle of the decade, being succeeded by "[[UsefulNotes/{{Dada}} dank memes]]". But since late 2020-early 2021, Trollface has been fully revived in mainstream meme circles. Unlike the previous uses that treat him more as a character, however, the more recent Trollface memes largely use edited versions of him as a reaction image (such as the "WebOriginal/{{Trollge}}"), fully lean into the InsaneTrollLogic associated with the character (i.e. "[[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cover-yourself-in-oil Cover Yourself in Oil]]"), or create outright disturbing versions of him (frequently treating it as a HumanoidAbomination attempting to take over the web), fitting with the aforementioned "dank memes". [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwF0sPym_9s These]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au-qU7TUr74 videos]] go into more detail.
7	** Some other characters such as Derpina occasionally pop up in modern memes as well, although most of these are usually made to [[{{Retraux}} deliberately harken back]] to the mythical era of rage comics.
8	* SongAssociation: Following several viral videos in 2021 featuring the character, Trollface has become associated with Music/TallyHall, especially the song "Ruler of Everything".
9	* SpiritualSuccessor: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojak Wojaks]] and their offshoots such as [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/yes-chad Yes Chad]] (which, despite only achieving mainstream use many years later, actually originated around the same time as Rage Comics) are also simplistic MS Paint-esque images that originated on Platform/FourChan and are also frequently used in comics to convey a situation or caricature someone, and saw a jump in usage around the late 2010s, by which time the Rage Comics had basically died out. [[https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/001/702/319/c19.png The]] similarities have not been lost on some.

Context YMMV / RageComics