LOL Guy

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LOL Guy
Historical
Date Created	June 14, 2010
Associated Event	4chan
General
Alias	Laughing Out Loud Guy
Type	Rage Comics
Status	Dead
Associates
Affiliates	Yao Ming Face (possible enemy, as seen in LOL Eater 2) Nyan Cat (possible enemy, as seen in LOL Eater 2) Trolololol (Trollface counterpart) Forever Alone lol guy (Forever alone counterpart) Derpina lol (derpina counterpart) Cat Lol (cat counterpart)

Description

LOL Guy, fully abbreviated as Laughing Out Loud Guy, is a rage comic character that is often used to indicate laughter and general amusement.

History

An email sent to Know Your Meme suggests that the image was initially posted to the /b/ (random) board on 4chan on June 14, 2010.

"Hello there, I think it’s time to straighten out some things about the LOL Guy. About MY LOL Guy. That’s right, I draw this ugly piece of crap in MS Paint on the 14. June 2010 and I first posted it on /b/ in a “This is now a meme” -Thread."

A few days later on June 18, the earliest known instance of LOL Guy rage comic was submitted to the r/f7u12 subreddit, featuring a customer attempting to return a fake Pokémon game cartridge to the EB Games store. Prior to being archived, the post received over 155 up votes and 30 comments.                                                                                     

Web usage

On August 3, 2010, admin Jae of the Joined Artists Forum started a rage comics thread, in which he posted an untooned LOL Guy photoshop of himself.

In November of that year, a Meme Generator page for "LOL Guy" was created, garnering upwards of 3,000 items within the next three years. On December 26, 2011, a listing for LOL Guy stickers was created on the online retailer Zazzle, receiving over 1,500 reviews in the following 13 months. On February 18, 2012, YouTuber MikeHorak uploaded a video titled "LOL Guy Song," which featured a dancing stick figure with the LOL Guy face accompanied by the song "Me Gustas Mucho" by La Banda De Los Pobres Musica De Viento.

On August 13, a Facebook page titled "LOL Guy" was launched, accumulating over 900 likes within the next six months. On November 4, Etsy seller Madeleine Fair Juul listed a LOL Guy ring on her store page. On January 19, 2013, DragonArt user Dawn submitted an instructional post on how to draw the LOL Guy.

Counterparts

There has been numerous counterparts of LOL Guy that appears to be found on the internet. There also has been a very popular counterpart of him who is combined from Trollface and the original face's lips into something entirely funnier into a meme called "Trolololololol" as well. There also has been some others including Forever Alone, F**k Yeah Guy, Y U NO Guy, Okay Guy, and numerous rage comic characters including Derpina. There has been numerous counterparts of the meme that can be found on the internet and also photoshopped and real life counterparts of him. There also has been a popular seen photo of a CGI of LOL Guy, a photoshopped picture of PewDiePie and another photoshop user encountered on the internet as well. There has been numerous popular images of the LOL Guy been photoshopped or done differently than usual. Some different ones that has counterparts could be encountered on Tumblr, Reddit, FunnyJunk, and Meme Generator as well. Since then, The LOL Guy has became a very famous meme that has been well known to the internet and has influenced some counterpart works of their own to make their own joke of LOL Guy on the internet. There also has been a Meh Cat version of him named "Cat Lol" who appears to do the same emotion as him even though with the appearance of a cat.

Trivia

• LOL Guy is the first, only, or possibly one of the memes that his lips looking puckered as he excited. Unlike Cat Lol (Cat version of him), he appears to be inspired from the original Lol Guy meme, but even though with an appearance of a cat.
• He is one of the most popular memes that appear often to people on the internet like F*** Yeah, Forever Alone, Y U NO Guy, Me Gusta, Derpina, and Trollface as well. Many of the rage comic characters also try to copy his emotion, which has done by numerous meme creators on the internet.
• In most languages including Japanese, French, Spanish, Italian, German, and Dutch, none of those languages doesn't seem to create their own acronyms (letters shorten out to organized abbreviated letters) for the internet, so therefore, there has been no proof of any foreign language acronyms on the internet, or due to the fact that foreign languages may not have the freedom to type acronyms of their own on the internet.
• He appears as his mouth is puckered to resemble as he is yelling cheerful like saying, "WOOOOO", rather than laughing in a proper emotion.
• Sometimes, some people think of his emotion of him as if he is kissing towards someone. As seen on a YouTube video by Animeme named "ANIMEME 6 - PSY beam", on the fact about 25,000 people kissing each other, this refers that LOL Guy could sometimes be used as a kissing emotion as well.
• LOL is the English internet acronym for "Laugh Out Loud".
• He also appears on a popular free online game on ArmorGames, Kongregate, and silvergames.com called LOL Eater 2. The Original game LOL Eater game is not yet to be seen on the internet, but somehow, the original has never been found on websites.
• On LOL Eater 2, he appears as the main protagonist as a yellow circle icon when guiding him around with a mouse devouring other Rage Comic characters in the game. The enemies in game includes NO Guy, Forever Alone, Alternative Poker Face, Crazy Rage Derpina, the original Derpina, Crying Guy, Okay Guy, Not Okay Guy, Cuteness Overload, Oh Stop It, You, Epic Win Guy, Rage Guy, F**k Yeah Guy, Happy Rage Guy, Sad Guy, Happy Guy (happy sad guy), Doge as a chasing enemy, Scumbag LOL Guy as a enemy, Sub-leader, Trollface as a trapz one enemy, and Yao Ming Face and Nyan Cat as his main enemies (Bosses). He also appears on the main title screen of the game.

Gallery

Trolololololol, Trollface counterpart of LOL Guy.

Cat Lol, cat counterpart of the LOL Guy.

References

Rage Comics Characters

Actually Guy · Are You Kidding Me? · Are You Serious · Aww Yeah · Baby Trollface · Bad Poker Face · Big Mouth High · Broken Heart Guy · Cat Lol · Cat Gasp · Cat Glare · Cat Overload · Cereal Guy · Cereal Guy (Spitting) · Cereal Guy (Squint) · Challenge Accepted · Challenged Considered · Challenge Denied · Challenge Failed · Clever Girl · Concentrated Guy · Conflicting Emotions Guy · Cover Yourself in Oil · Crazy TrollFace · Crazy Rage Guy · Crying Guy · Cuteness Overload! · Daily Lie · Danny Trejo · Dark Stare Guy · Derpina · Dog · Dolan Duk · Duck Yeah · Dude Come On · Epic Fail Guy · Epic Win Guy · Eternal Contempt · Everything Went Better Than Expected · Fap Guy · Feel Like a Ninja · Feel Like a Sir Guy · Feel Like a Liege · Freddie Mercury · F**k Yeah · Forever Alone · Fsjal · Genius · Gentlemen guy · Goofy Smile Guy · Grandma · Grin Guy · GTFO Guy · Hah! G**! · Happy Guy · Walking Guy · Herp Derp · Horror Rage Guy · Computer Guy · Huh? Guy · Hyper Troll · I Am Determined · If You Know What I Mean · I Lied · I Know That Feel · I'm Watching You · Impossibru · Indeed · I Regret Nothing · I See What You Did There · I Truthed · It's Not Okay · Le Monkey Face · Lesquee ·Little Kid Face · kitteh smile ·LOL Guy · Long Neck Guy ·Me Culpa · Me Gusta Creepy Me Gusta · Mega Rage Face · Meh Cat · Michelle Rage Face · Milk Guy · Mother of God... · Must Resist Guy · Muy Elegante · My Brain Is Full Of F*** · We Got a Bad*** Over Here · Never Alone · NO Guy · No Me Gusta · No, Whyyyy?!! · Not Okay · Not Sure If Gusta · Numb Guy · Not Bad · Oh God Why · Oh God Guy · Oh No Guy · Oh S*** Guy · Oh Stop it, You · Oh Sweet Jesus · Ohhh, Yes Guy · Okay Guy · Okay Guy (Sad Shadow) · Omega Trollface · OMG Guy · OMG Run · OMG Face · Open Mouth Guy · Questoning, Pondering · Quiet Guy · PFFFTTTCHH · PFFFRRR · Poker Face · Possibru · Problemo Trollface · Rage Guy · Rainbow Face · Reaction Guy · Red Eyed Rage Guy · Sad Guy · Sad Trollface · Shaking Guy · So Close · So Hardcore · Son, I am dissapoint · So There Guy · Smashing Guy · Smile Guy · Spiderman guy · Stoned Guy · Super Rage Guy · Sure, Baby · Suspicious Guy · Sweet Jesus Have Mercy · Thanks · Thumbs Up Guy · True Story · Troll Dad · Trollface · Trollface 2.0 · Unhappy Rage Guy · Wait Guy · Whyyyyy guy · X all the Y · Yao Ming Face · You Don't Say · You're The Man · Your Pain, It Amuses Me Guy · You, What Have You Done!? · You Win This Time! · Y U NO Guy Note: Some of these pages contain offensive/NSFW content.