Oh Crap, also called OMG Rage Face, is an exploitable rage comic drawing used to react with shock, sudden revelation, or full anger, typically paired with red or white all-caps text.

Where did Oh Crap come from?

It first appeared in an October 1, 2009 rage comic posted to the Studio Kat forums about a wife being sent to test PlayStation 3 games that did not exist.

What does Oh Crap mean?

The face signals a character's stunned realization or seething frustration in a rage comic, with the exact meaning set by the caption printed above it.

How do you use Oh Crap?

The common convention is to drop it into the punchline panel of a rage comic and add red or white all-caps text summing up the character's shocked or angry inner thought.

Is Oh Crap still popular?

It is a classic face from the 2009 to 2011 rage comic era, largely retired from active use today but still recognized as part of the standard rage face set catalogued on Reddit's rage comic timeline.

Oh Crap

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Published September 15, 2026

Oh Crap, also known as OMG Rage Face, is an exploitable rage comic drawing that first showed up in a 2009 forum strip about a wife being tricked into testing nonexistent PlayStation 3 games. The face bounced across FunnyJunk, Reddit, and Tumblr under nicknames like raisin face and Ashraf face, becoming one of the core reaction panels in the rage comic template.

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Overview

The drawing is a wide-eyed, open-mouthed cartoon head, usually paired with red or white all-caps text that spells out the character's stunned realization or seething anger2. In a rage comic strip, it lands in the punchline panel to signal astonishment, revelation, or full frustration, and the meaning shifts based on what the accompanying caption says1. The same exact drawing got reused for both the shocked beat and the raging beat, which is why comment threads kept assigning it different nicknames over the years1.

Outside the standard black-and-white line-art version, illustrator Sam Spratt drew a photorealistic take on Oh Crap / OMG Rage Face in July 2011, which gave the drawing a second life as a piece of standalone fan art rather than a comic panel3. Within rage comic lore, the same face was also assigned as the visual for a Gropaga, a follower of the Inglip web comic universe2.

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Origin & Background

Platform

Studio Kat Forums (created) / Reddit (viral spread)

Date

2009

The earliest known appearance of Oh Crap / OMG Rage Face is a rage comic posted on October 1, 2009 to the Studio Kat forums, in a thread dedicated to sharing absurd images2. The strip shows the character being told his wife visited her boss's house to test PlayStation 3 games, then realizing that the console had no games to test, at which point the face hits as the reveal panel2. The artist behind the original drawing has never been publicly identified.

How It Spread

On May 23, 2010, a FunnyJunk comic used the face to react to a cookie turning out to contain raisins instead of chocolate chips, and the post drew over 61,000 views along with more than 2,000 funny votes2. That strip stuck the drawing with the nickname raisin face, a tag that carried over to Memebase, Tumblr, and Quickmeme in the months after2.

The face jumped to the anger side of the spectrum in August 2010 through a rage comic about a disastrous birthday party posted to Reddit, where a character named Ashraf sat next to the reaction1. Rage comic readers started calling it the Ashraf face in the r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu comments, and the name was written into the official rage face timeline maintained on the subreddit1. Through 2011 the face kept showing up in other rage comic tropes, including She Wants My Cock and Being an X strips, where it served as the reveal moment for surprised awareness or an unwelcome ethnic realization2.

In July 2011, Sam Spratt's photorealistic version was posted to Reddit and pulled 2,418 upvotes, marking the drawing as one of the rage entries popular enough to reinterpret in a fine-art style3.

Timeline

2009-10-01

Earliest known appearance in a rage comic on the Studio Kat forums about being tricked over PlayStation 3 games.

2010-05-23

FunnyJunk raisin face comic posted, drawing over 61,000 views and giving the face its first widely used nickname.

2010-08

Reddit birthday party rage comic goes up, and comment threads start calling the drawing the Ashraf face.

2011

The face is applied to other rage tropes including She Wants My Cock and Being an X strips.

2011-07

Illustrator Sam Spratt posts a photorealistic version to Reddit, hitting 2,418 upvotes.

How to Use This Meme

The typical convention is to drop the face into the final panel of a rage comic and pair it with red or white all-caps text that states the character's inner reaction, whether that is shock, sudden realization, or open frustration1. Common uses include the moment a character figures out they've been fooled, discovers a hidden downside, or reacts to a small betrayal like raisins in what looked like chocolate chip cookies2.