Fap Guy

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Fap Guy is a rage comic face with a strained grimace and hollow eyes, always paired with the caption 'fap fap fap fap' to indicate masturbation. The face first appeared on FunnyJunk in February 2010 as a 'Now Kiss' character, then got its masturbation caption in May 2010 before spreading to Reddit's r/f7u12.

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Overview

Fap Guy is a rage comic face drawn with wide, hollow eyes and a strained grimace, paired with the caption 'fap fap fap fap' to signal that the character is masturbating1. The look sits somewhere between shame and grim concentration, which is what made it a punchline panel in FunnyJunk and Reddit rage comics through the early 2010s3.

The template typically shows up in the final frame of a strip, after a setup where a character stumbles onto something arousing or embarrassing1. A female counterpart later followed, using the same face with Derpina hair and the alternate caption 'schlick schlick schlick schlick'3.

How It Spread

Fap Guy jumped from FunnyJunk to Reddit through r/f7u12, the rage comics subreddit. On December 10, 2010, Redditor YJM posted 'Those Soul-less Eyes,' a strip where the character feels guilt after masturbating in front of his cats, which pulled in more than 1,200 upvotes and 40 comments before the thread was archived5. On May 8, 2011, user ultralsome64 followed with 'Fap Fap Fap,' a bait-and-switch comic that revealed Fap Guy was actually holding a squirt gun2.

The character got a dedicated hub on March 24, 2012, when FapGuy.com launched as an archive for Fap Guy rage comics6. That May, Zazzle listed a Fap Guy bumper sticker for sale7, and by December 2012 the 'Fap Fap Fap' Facebook page had passed 88,000 likes8. Ongoing collections appeared on Tumblr under the '#fap guy' tag9 and on Cheezburger's Memebase under the '#fap' tag10.

How to Use This Meme

People typically use Fap Guy as the final panel of a rage comic. The setup shows a character encountering something arousing, embarrassing, or wildly inappropriate, and the reveal cuts to the strained 'fap fap fap fap' face for the punchline. Common convention swaps the caption to 'schlick schlick schlick schlick' for the female Derpina version, or subverts the gag by having Fap Guy hold an object like a squirt gun instead of the expected one2.

Frequently Asked Questions

Fap Guy

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Fap Guy is a rage comic face with a strained grimace and hollow eyes, always paired with the caption 'fap fap fap fap' to indicate masturbation. The face first appeared on FunnyJunk in February 2010 as a 'Now Kiss' character, then got its masturbation caption in May 2010 before spreading to Reddit's r/f7u12.

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Overview

Fap Guy is a rage comic face drawn with wide, hollow eyes and a strained grimace, paired with the caption 'fap fap fap fap' to signal that the character is masturbating1. The look sits somewhere between shame and grim concentration, which is what made it a punchline panel in FunnyJunk and Reddit rage comics through the early 2010s3.

The template typically shows up in the final frame of a strip, after a setup where a character stumbles onto something arousing or embarrassing1. A female counterpart later followed, using the same face with Derpina hair and the alternate caption 'schlick schlick schlick schlick'3.

How It Spread

Fap Guy jumped from FunnyJunk to Reddit through r/f7u12, the rage comics subreddit. On December 10, 2010, Redditor YJM posted 'Those Soul-less Eyes,' a strip where the character feels guilt after masturbating in front of his cats, which pulled in more than 1,200 upvotes and 40 comments before the thread was archived5. On May 8, 2011, user ultralsome64 followed with 'Fap Fap Fap,' a bait-and-switch comic that revealed Fap Guy was actually holding a squirt gun2.

The character got a dedicated hub on March 24, 2012, when FapGuy.com launched as an archive for Fap Guy rage comics6. That May, Zazzle listed a Fap Guy bumper sticker for sale7, and by December 2012 the 'Fap Fap Fap' Facebook page had passed 88,000 likes8. Ongoing collections appeared on Tumblr under the '#fap guy' tag9 and on Cheezburger's Memebase under the '#fap' tag10.

How to Use This Meme

People typically use Fap Guy as the final panel of a rage comic. The setup shows a character encountering something arousing, embarrassing, or wildly inappropriate, and the reveal cuts to the strained 'fap fap fap fap' face for the punchline. Common convention swaps the caption to 'schlick schlick schlick schlick' for the female Derpina version, or subverts the gag by having Fap Guy hold an object like a squirt gun instead of the expected one2.

Frequently Asked Questions