# Are You Fucking Kidding Me 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. ## 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 canon[1]. 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 hostility[3]. The phrase attached to the face works on its own as a shouted catchphrase, usually written in all caps for emphasis[5]. 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 absurdity[3]. ## How It Spread Less than a month after the FunnyJunk debut, DeviantART user CruiserPL uploaded a transparent PNG of the face on June 16, 2010[4]. 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 2012[4]. From DeviantART the face bounced onto Reddit's r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu rage comic sub[6] and rage-tagged posts on Tumblr, then got picked up by meme blogs including Memebase, We Know Memes, RageComics.com and SB Nation[3]. 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'Reilly[3]. ## How to Use 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 caps[3]. 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 set[5]. Outside of comics, people still drop the phrase alone as a text reaction when something crosses from annoying into absurd[5]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Are You Fucking Kidding Me? It's a rage comic reaction face with a scornful expression, used to react to extreme stupidity or absurdity in the final panel of a four-pane strip[3]. ### Where did Are You Fucking Kidding Me come from? The oldest known instance was posted on FunnyJunk on May 23, 2010, with the style traced back to 4chan rage comics[1]. ### What does Are You Fucking Kidding Me mean? It's the full-volume version of are you kidding, used when someone reaches peak anger or disbelief at a request or situation[5]. ### How do you use Are You Fucking Kidding Me? Drop the face in the last panel of a four-pane rage comic that escalates an absurd scenario, usually with the phrase shouted in all caps[3]. ### Is Are You Fucking Kidding Me still popular? It faded with the rest of the rage comic wave in the mid-2010s and was largely displaced in the same reaction slot by the Are You Serious face[3]. ## References 1. [https://funnyjunk.com/Are+you+fucking+kidding+me]() 2. [https://funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/are+you+fucking+kidding+me+template]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/are-you-fucking-kidding-me]() 4. [https://www.deviantart.com/cruiserpl/art/Are-You-Fucking-Kidding-Me]() 5. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Are%20You%20Fucking%20Kidding%20Me]() 6. [https://www.reddit.com/r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu/search?q=are+you+fucking+kidding+me]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/are-you-fucking-kidding-me Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library