# Country Feels Country Feels is a series of illustrations showing the That Feel Guy sitting at a computer desk in a room stuffed with visual stereotypes of a specific country or region. It started on Reddit in December 2012 with a Canadian version, then spread across subreddits and imageboards as users made their own national variants. ## Overview Country Feels is a template built around the That Feel Guy, the bald, teary-eyed rage-comic character, drawn sitting at a computer desk in a room packed with visual clichés of a specific country or region[1]. A Canadian version might place him in a log cabin with a maple leaf flag on the wall, while an American version might swap in bald eagles, guns, or fast food. The joke is a mix of nationalist pride, self-deprecation, and the loneliness the Feel Guy always carries around. The series sits close to the older "How People View Me" two-pane cartoons in tone and structure, using shorthand stereotypes to sum up a whole national identity in one crowded frame[3]. Each image is essentially a visual checklist of what outsiders (and locals) associate with a place, wrapped around the same sad protagonist. ## How It Spread On January 14th, 2013, Redditor ImminentFate reposted CanadianFeels.jpg to /r/pics, where it climbed past 2,000 votes at an 84% upvote rate before being archived[5]. Less than a month later, on February 6th, 2013, an America-themed version showed up in a thread on the /warc/ wildcard archive board on the imageboard Uboa Chan[1]. The images found a second life inside the "tfw no gf" ecosystem. On January 14th, 2014, BodyBuilding Forums user RonPaul2012 posted a batch of Country Feels images inside a "TFW No GF" thread, tying the format to the wider Feel Guy loneliness canon[6]. On February 11th, forum member Gookzilla reposted many of the same images in a thread hunting for "the rarest feel guy"[6]. Between these Reddit reposts, imageboard threads, and forum revivals, Country Feels settled in as a long-running Feel Guy sub-format that users kept extending with new national and regional variants[3]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Country Feels? Country Feels is a set of illustrations showing the That Feel Guy at a computer desk in a room filled with stereotypes tied to a specific country or region[3]. ### Where did Country Feels come from? The first widely shared entry was CanadianFeels.jpg, posted by Redditor legit4u to /r/4chan on December 13th, 2012[2]. ### What does Country Feels mean? Each image sums up a country through visual clichés while keeping the Feel Guy's lonely, self-pitying mood, mixing patriotism with the character's usual sadness[1]. ### How do you use Country Feels? People typically draw the Feel Guy at his desk and stuff the surrounding room with flags, foods, animals, and other icons associated with a chosen country or region[3]. ### Is Country Feels still popular? It is a classic Feel Guy sub-format from the early 2010s that saw major reposts through 2013 and 2014 on Reddit and forums like BodyBuilding Forums[5][6]. ## References 1. [https://uboachan.net/warc/10.html]() 2. [https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/country-feels]() 4. [https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/]() 5. [https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/]() 6. [https://forum.bodybuilding.com/]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/country-feels Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library