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You Win This Time!

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Published October 8, 2026

You Win This Time! is a rage comic face used to grudgingly admit defeat, first drawn for a Spanish-language comic about a cruel math exam on Cuánto Cabrón in February 2011. It bounced from Spanish image boards to Facebook, deviantArt and English-speaking rage comic communities, becoming a go-to template for comics where the trollface wins and the protagonist caves.

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Overview

The You Win This Time! face is a rage comic character drawn with a tense frown and clenched teeth, used by a comic's protagonist to concede that the trollface, a teacher, or life itself has outmaneuvered them1. The design sits in the same family as English-language rage faces like Sweet Jesus, which is why it slotted easily into existing rage comic grammar once it crossed over from Spanish forums2.

In the standard four-panel format, the character sets up an overconfident plan, the plan collapses in the third panel, and the final panel is a close-up of the You Win This Time! face delivering the line, usually in English even on Spanish comics1. Commenters on Cuánto Cabrón nicknamed the new face a fusion of the Me Gusta face and the classic rageguy, and translated the English caption as roughly "tú ganas por esta vez" (translated from Spanish)1.

Origin & Background

Platform
Cuánto Cabrón (Spanish-language) / deviantArt and rage face blogs (English spread)
Date
2011

The face first appeared in a rage comic posted to the Spanish humor site Cuánto Cabrón on February 11, 20111. The comic shows a student thinking "Math exam, I haven't even studied, but they're just numbers," then flipping the page to find equations full of letters, with a trollface teacher gloating that the test is simple for anyone who studied. The final panel reveals the new face with the caption "You Win This Time!" The post pulled a positive score of 3,020 out of 5,112 votes2.

The original artist is not credited on Cuánto Cabrón, where comics are published under community usernames, and no later source has confirmed a specific creator1. An exploitable template version was later uploaded to deviantArt by user rober-raik on October 26, 2011, with a note that it was not their original work2.

How It Spread

After the February 2011 comic took off on Cuánto Cabrón, a Facebook fan page for the face was started in April 2011 and had grown to around 131,000 likes by June 20122. The deviantArt template upload on October 26, 2011 gave English-speaking rage comic makers a clean PNG to drop into their own four-panel comics2.

From there, the face moved onto the two main English-language rage face catalogs. It was added to All The Rage Faces! on November 5, 2011, and to The Rage Faces Tumblr on December 5, 2011, which was how most Reddit and 4chan comic makers of the era discovered new faces2. The Know Your Meme entry documents this cross-over from Spanish-language boards into the English rage comic ecosystem2.

One of the earliest English-language comics using the face was a Harry Potter gag posted to FunnyJunk on January 8, 2012, in which Voldemort gets trolled and makes the You Win This Time! expression2. Comics using the tag kept getting posted on Cuánto Cabrón well after the initial viral run, keeping the face in rotation within its home community2.

Timeline

2011-02-11

Original rage comic featuring the You Win This Time! face posted to Cuánto Cabrón, scoring 3,020 positive votes.

2011-04

A Facebook fan page for the face is created, eventually passing 131,000 likes by mid-2012.

2011-10-26

User rober-raik uploads an exploitable template of the face to deviantArt.

2011-11-05

The face is added to the All The Rage Faces! catalog.

2011-12-05

The Rage Faces Tumblr adds the You Win This Time! face.

2012-01-08

An early English-language comic using the face, a Harry Potter troll gag, is posted to FunnyJunk.

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