What is NO. Rage Face?

A rage comic character drawn as a scowling face labeled 'NO.', used to dismiss or reject an idea inside a comic panel or as a standalone reaction image.

Where did NO. Rage Face come from?

Chris Farral, aka Up2Admin, drew it and posted it in the Cheat Engine forum's art sub-forum on August 10th, 2010.

What does NO. Rage Face mean?

A flat, period-punctuated refusal, meant to end an exchange without further explanation.

How do you use NO. Rage Face?

Drop it into the final panel of a rage comic as the response to a request or bad idea, or post it on its own in a thread as a hard-no reaction.

Is NO. Rage Face still popular?

It is a classic rage comic character from the 2010 to 2013 rage face wave, and while regular use dropped as rage comics faded, it still shows up in retro rage face compilations on Tumblr.

NO. Rage Face

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Published September 9, 2026

NO. Rage Face is a rage comic character drawn in August 2010 by Cheat Engine forum user Chris Farral (aka Up2Admin), showing a stern face used to flatly reject someone's idea. What began as a niche art post in a game-modding sub-forum spread to Reddit, 4chan, and Tumblr, joining the standard rage face lineup that ran early 2010s meme humor.

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Overview

The character is drawn in the flat black-line style typical of rage comics, showing a scowling face with a firm downturned mouth, usually paired with the word 'NO.' underneath4. Comic panels tend to build up to a request or suggestion, then cut to the face as the answer, ending the exchange without further discussion. When posted alone as a reaction image, it sits in the same bucket as Are You Serious, Yao Ming, and Are You F**king Kidding Me faces5.

Unlike more elaborate rage characters with wide expressions and multi-panel setups, NO. Rage Face works because the drawing itself is a single-word refusal3. The period after 'NO' is the whole joke, a full stop that closes the conversation.

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Origin & Background

Platform

Cheat Engine forums (creation) / Reddit, 4chan, Tumblr (viral spread)

Creator

Chris Farral

Date

2010

Chris Farral, who posts online as Up2Admin, drew the face on August 10th, 2010 and shared it in the art sub-forum of the Cheat Engine forums, a community built around the open-source game modification tool of the same name1. He made it for other posters to use as a reaction on that forum, not as a wider meme project2.

How It Spread

An early rage comic built around the face appeared on Memebase on December 5th, 2010, less than four months after the original forum post3. After bouncing through Cheat Engine threads, the face turned up on Reddit, 4chan's /b/, Facebook, and various blogs during 20115. It was added to the rage comic character catalog All The Rage Faces on August 6th, 2011, a formal induction into the standard rage face lineup4. Me Gusta Memes ran a comic with it on September 17th, 2011, and Funny Pictures Blog followed five days later3.

On September 23rd, 2011, Farral re-uploaded the drawing to DeviantArt himself, explicitly noting that the face had gone viral and that he wanted to plant a flag on it before someone else tried to claim credit2. By December 2011 it was included in an IGN forums rage face roundup, and a Facebook fan page for the character had been running since November of that year5.

Comic collections tagged 'no rage face' and 'no meme' built up on Tumblr through the same window, part of the wider rage comic wave that ran across Reddit and Tumblr humor from roughly 2011 to 20136.

How to Use This Meme

The typical format drops the face into a comic panel as the response to an unreasonable request, a bad idea, or an obvious trap. The common convention is to pair the drawing with the word 'NO.' underneath, with the period included, and treat that panel as the end of the exchange4. As a standalone reaction image in a comment thread, it often replaces a written 'no' when the poster wants the refusal to feel final rather than argumentative6.