Are You Fucking Kidding Me

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Are You Fucking Kidding Me is a rage comic reaction face wearing a scornful, narrow-eyed expression, used as the punchline panel when a situation crosses from mildly annoying into full disbelief. It broke out on FunnyJunk in May 2010 and rode the four-pane rage comic wave across 4chan, Reddit, DeviantART and Tumblr.

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Overview

Are You Fucking Kidding Me is a rage comic character drawn with narrow, scornful eyes and a flat, downturned mouth, done in the crude MS Paint linework that defined the whole rage comic canon1. It fills the same reaction slot as Look of Disapproval (ಠ_ಠ) or the classic X is not amused format, but pushes the frustration further into open hostility3.

The phrase attached to the face works on its own as a shouted catchphrase, usually written in all caps for emphasis5. In comic form the character almost always shows up in the final panel of a four-pane strip, delivering the reaction after a setup that keeps escalating in absurdity3.

How It Spread

Less than a month after the FunnyJunk debut, DeviantART user CruiserPL uploaded a transparent PNG of the face on June 16, 20104. Three days later on June 19, CruiserPL posted a captioned version with the Are You Fucking Kidding Me phrase attached, which pulled more than 102,000 views by September 20124.

From DeviantART the face bounced onto Reddit's r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu rage comic sub6 and rage-tagged posts on Tumblr, then got picked up by meme blogs including Memebase, We Know Memes, RageComics.com and SB Nation3.

As the rage comic wave cooled through the mid-2010s, this specific reaction slot got squeezed out by a newer rage character called Are You Serious, based on the perplexed face of American Atheists president David Silverman during an on-air Fox News debate with Bill O'Reilly3.

How to Use This Meme

The standard move is a four-pane comic where each panel escalates a frustrating situation, then the Are You Fucking Kidding Me face lands in panel four with the caption in all caps3. Common conventions include the shouted ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? line and the same jagged MS Paint style used for the rest of the rage comic set5. Outside of comics, people still drop the phrase alone as a text reaction when something crosses from annoying into absurd5.

Frequently Asked Questions

Are You Fucking Kidding Me

2010rage comic reaction faceclassic

Are You Fucking Kidding Me is a rage comic reaction face wearing a scornful, narrow-eyed expression, used as the punchline panel when a situation crosses from mildly annoying into full disbelief. It broke out on FunnyJunk in May 2010 and rode the four-pane rage comic wave across 4chan, Reddit, DeviantART and Tumblr.

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Overview

Are You Fucking Kidding Me is a rage comic character drawn with narrow, scornful eyes and a flat, downturned mouth, done in the crude MS Paint linework that defined the whole rage comic canon1. It fills the same reaction slot as Look of Disapproval (ಠ_ಠ) or the classic X is not amused format, but pushes the frustration further into open hostility3.

The phrase attached to the face works on its own as a shouted catchphrase, usually written in all caps for emphasis5. In comic form the character almost always shows up in the final panel of a four-pane strip, delivering the reaction after a setup that keeps escalating in absurdity3.

How It Spread

Less than a month after the FunnyJunk debut, DeviantART user CruiserPL uploaded a transparent PNG of the face on June 16, 20104. Three days later on June 19, CruiserPL posted a captioned version with the Are You Fucking Kidding Me phrase attached, which pulled more than 102,000 views by September 20124.

From DeviantART the face bounced onto Reddit's r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu rage comic sub6 and rage-tagged posts on Tumblr, then got picked up by meme blogs including Memebase, We Know Memes, RageComics.com and SB Nation3.

As the rage comic wave cooled through the mid-2010s, this specific reaction slot got squeezed out by a newer rage character called Are You Serious, based on the perplexed face of American Atheists president David Silverman during an on-air Fox News debate with Bill O'Reilly3.

How to Use This Meme

The standard move is a four-pane comic where each panel escalates a frustrating situation, then the Are You Fucking Kidding Me face lands in panel four with the caption in all caps3. Common conventions include the shouted ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? line and the same jagged MS Paint style used for the rest of the rage comic set5. Outside of comics, people still drop the phrase alone as a text reaction when something crosses from annoying into absurd5.

Frequently Asked Questions