Description[]
Are You Serious, also known as Seriously?, Are You Serious Face, and Are You Serious Guy, is a rage comic character that appears to show that he is confused with something that someone had said to him before or what he reacts to when he seriously thought that someone was kidding, or maybe showing that the Seriously Guy is clueless to what happened. The character of the Are You Serious Face meme was inspired from a real-life person named David Silverman who talks about a debate on American atheists on the Fox News TV channel.
History[]
The first known evidence of the meme first appeared on Fox News at the TV talk show The O'Reilly Factor on January 4, 2011 when he was talking to Bill O'Reilly, when Bill O'Reilly says to him, "tide goes in, tide goes out”, he possibly said are you serious to him. On the news, they were talking about an argument for the existence of God, the same person, who is Bill O'Reilly, also appears as a meme named You Can't Explain That along with him. Since then, the meme was created around the same time as the You Can't Explain That and also was created by an unknown publisher on Reddit since January 18, 2011.[1] After the video was made, an unknown creator of the meme has made a drawing of him being clueless, which later published the first meme of him saying "Are You Serious". Soon after, he became popular because of the meme.
O'Reilly: I’ll tell you why [religion is] not a scam, in my opinion. Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can’t explain that. You can’t explain why the tide goes in.
Silverman: Tide goes in, tide goes out?”
O'Reilly: The water, the tide--it comes in and it goes out. It always goes in, then it goes out. … You can’t explain that. You can’t explain it.
Counterparts[]
Female counterparts of Are You Serious Guy.
After the original male version became popular, there was also dozens of different female counterparts of him who had Derpina's hairstyle and also different faces of the person who had Derpina's hairstyle. There also has been other female memes and male memes that also has different appearances as well.
The first female version of the face was posted to Reddit on February 17, 2011.[2] It went through several revisions collaboratively within Reddit before settling on the final version used today. An image showing the evolution of the female version was posted on February 19, 2011.[3]
There also has been numerous counterparts of him saying the word, "Are You Serious", in which he says differently like "Are you f****** serious", "seriously", or "you're serious" sometimes in other memes. There also has been other faces of different characters found on the internet that took the same quote as he has, even though has different words, and almost has the same phrase. After the meme became popular, numerous people started to make their own memes with a phrase almost sounding like his, and also sometimes with different quotes to make it funny. since then, there has been dozens of memes found on the internet.
On June 27, 2011, the blog The Friendly Atheist posted that David Silverman had placed a large sticker of the rage face on the front door of the American Atheists office in Cranford, New Jersey.[4]
Trivia[]
- On the female version of him, there seemed to be dozens of Derpina counterparts made differently than what he looks. Sometimes, there also has been memes with the same appearance of face and look, with the appearance of their hair changed. Sometimes, other memes may do the same expression, albeit people may make him look the same reaction but different appearance.
- He is one of the memes that seemed to be made fun of from Fox News besides the "You Can't Explain" meme.
- He was inspired from a real-life person talking on the news, David Silverman, a person who makes a debate on American atheists on Fox News along with Bill O'Reilly.
- He is one of two memes who appear realistically simply drawn and feels confused or clueless besides My Brain Is Full Of F**k Guy, who is Jackie Chan.
- His emotion appears similar to Are You Kidding Me? meme, although his mouth appears opened as he is clueless rather than looking down seriously and has his mouth closed like Are You Kidding Me has.
- Unlike the male version of Are You Serious meme, the female version appears to be the same color of her shirt and appearance, but different hairstyles and different facial looks.
- Instead of having the same picture of him or the same quotes, some people make different backgrounds and different quotes like for example, "B****, Are You Serious", "You Serious", or "Are You F****** Serious" on some memes. Sometimes in other memes, they also appear with a rapper or a baby saying "Are You Serious" in it, and sometimes, the same quote could be used in different memes.
- There has been some memes of Stephen A. Smith, who appears in a meme with the phrase, "Are You Serious" in it.
References[]
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/eyew5/do_your_worst_fixed/
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu/comments/fnlyc/female_are_you_serious_face/
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu/comments/fogox/evolution_of_the_female_are_you_serious_face/
- ↑ http://friendlyatheist.com/2011/06/27/american-atheists-accepts-the-meme/
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