Why doesnt wojak die out like those old rage faces from 2010?

[Yuri_]

?

 

[DumbDude42]

 

[Epic Fail Man]

rage faces aren't dead.

 

[wharf rat]

becaus he was the wheat separated from the chaff

 

[modern horrors]

Because he keeps evolving. He became a template for other crap like tradgirl, nigress, soyjak, npc face, forklift-certified schizo etc

 

[libRT]

Because of the depressing state of affairs, keeps wojak relevant.

 

[Sparkley]

IMO Wojak's expressionless face and relatively blank template allows for endless variations of the meme, resulting in an appealing format for normies that leads to creations that everyone can relate to such as this case of terminal autism:

 

[NekoRightsActivist]

Because you can use it to shit on people, nothing really better than representing someone you don't like as soyjak or whatever variants, the same can't be said with pepe and rage comic

 

[Meat Target]

IMO Wojak's expressionless face and relatively blank template allows for endless variations of the meme, resulting in an appealing format for normies that leads to creations that everyone can relate to such as this case of terminal autism:View attachment 2834906

Because of the depressing state of affairs, keeps wojak relevant.

It's both of these. Basically anyone can use him.

 

[Drazen]

It hasn't wore out its welcome just yet due to how surprisingly adaptable it is.

 

[Beautiful Border]

I think there are two factors at play here:

1. Wojak is far more versatile. You can endlessly remix Wojak to represent almost anything. The meme replaced its contenders as its adaptability made them obsolete.

2. By about 2011ish rage comics became popular with Reddit, which meant nobody on 4chan wanted to use them anymore. This was before the massive normie influx into 4chan that came with the 2016 US election and Trump fad, which meant there was still a clear barrier between it and the rest of the Internet. When people on Reddit realised people on 4chan didn't consider it cool anymore they stopped using them too.

 

[kūhaku]

There are more people on the internet, so it will just take a longer time to go through its meme cycle. Speaking of the meme cycle, I can't wait to see when it truly hits the mainstream, wojakposters will be eternally in ruins

 

[Everybody]

They evolve, the doomer one even has his own subculture of mopey youngsters (formerly known as "emo")

 

[seri0us]

They evolve, the doomer one even has his own subculture of mopey youngsters (formerly known as "emo")

oh yes the depressionfags, all of which seem to be 14 y/o shitlets

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

It speaks to the human condition.

 

[Suburban Bastard]

Wojaks are rage faces, just evolved to be adaptable

 

[An Ghost]

It speaks to the human condition.

Its a formation of our universal unconsciousness. A shared experience that we evolved to have. The same reason we see a million variations of Good V Bad face in history like this like this:


People really see wojak as them. Here's a picasso self portrait.

Now yuo see

 

[seri0us]

Its a formation of our universal unconsciousness. A shared experience that we evolved to have. The same reason we see a million variations of Good V Bad face in history like this like this:
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People really see wojak as them. Here's a picasso self portrait.
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Now yuo see
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[L50LasPak]

Wojak is profoundly more expressive than ragecomics ever were. And when Wojak doesn't fit a certain character it often takes some minimal alteration to make it work. Ragecomics are too childish and cartoony, despite having essentially the same idea.

 

[An Ghost]

Wojak is profoundly more expressive than ragecomics ever were.

Disagree. He's unexpressive. That's why he's perfect. The Kuleshov effect suggests we get what emotion we feel out of his blank face based on the context. The first "feels guy" i saw on 4chan was about seeing somebody in a coffin at a funeral (which is also part of Kuleshov's experiment) and I really felt like that blank ol wojak expressed that. Wojak is the most cinematic meme we've ever had.

Rage comics tell you how feel. They're exaggerated and inhuman. They're a laugh track or applause sign. And it's irritating.