Amazed Face

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Amazed Face is a hand-drawn rage comic reaction character used to express awe or pleasant shock, recognizable by its wide round eyes and small open mouth. The drawing first surfaced on 4chan's /a/ board in March 2010 and picked up its name from a Cuánto Cabrón rage comic in October 2011.

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Overview

Amazed Face is a rage comic reaction image showing a hand-drawn face with wide circular eyes and a small open mouth, used to express awe over something inspiring or unexpectedly delightful 3. Like the rest of the classic rage face lineup, the character worked as shorthand for one specific emotion, in this case pleasant shock, and the Tumblr version often ran the image over a rainbow background.

Not everyone read the face as amazed, though. Commenters on Cuánto Cabrón argued that the flat mouth and neutral brows made it look confused rather than blown away, with one user calling it the least expressive meme they had seen (translated from Spanish) 1. The minimalist style still fit the wider rage face template of the early 2010s.

How It Spread

The reaction moved through fan and gossip communities before it got a name. In October 2010, commenters on Oh No They Didn't dropped it under a shirtless photo of actor Jared Leto 2. Through late 2010 and early 2011 it appeared in the Emotibot reaction gallery and spread onto Tumblr with a rainbow background version, then onto personal Blogspot pages 3.

The naming moment came in October 2011, when a Cuánto Cabrón submitter used the drawing in a rage comic about the joy of plugging a USB cable in correctly on the first try 1. A Facebook fan page launched the next day, and a deviantART Plz account for the character was set up that December. By March 2012, the image sat in the All The Rage Faces archive with more than 77,000 views 4.

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Amazed Face

2010reaction imageclassic

Amazed Face is a hand-drawn rage comic reaction character used to express awe or pleasant shock, recognizable by its wide round eyes and small open mouth. The drawing first surfaced on 4chan's /a/ board in March 2010 and picked up its name from a Cuánto Cabrón rage comic in October 2011.

rage comics reaction memes facial expression memes 4chan memes early 2010s memes

Overview

Amazed Face is a rage comic reaction image showing a hand-drawn face with wide circular eyes and a small open mouth, used to express awe over something inspiring or unexpectedly delightful 3. Like the rest of the classic rage face lineup, the character worked as shorthand for one specific emotion, in this case pleasant shock, and the Tumblr version often ran the image over a rainbow background.

Not everyone read the face as amazed, though. Commenters on Cuánto Cabrón argued that the flat mouth and neutral brows made it look confused rather than blown away, with one user calling it the least expressive meme they had seen (translated from Spanish) 1. The minimalist style still fit the wider rage face template of the early 2010s.

How It Spread

The reaction moved through fan and gossip communities before it got a name. In October 2010, commenters on Oh No They Didn't dropped it under a shirtless photo of actor Jared Leto 2. Through late 2010 and early 2011 it appeared in the Emotibot reaction gallery and spread onto Tumblr with a rainbow background version, then onto personal Blogspot pages 3.

The naming moment came in October 2011, when a Cuánto Cabrón submitter used the drawing in a rage comic about the joy of plugging a USB cable in correctly on the first try 1. A Facebook fan page launched the next day, and a deviantART Plz account for the character was set up that December. By March 2012, the image sat in the All The Rage Faces archive with more than 77,000 views 4.

Frequently Asked Questions