You Don't Say?

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You Don't Say?
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Date Created	June 2, 1989
Creator	Nicolas Cage
Associated Event	Film: Vampire's Kiss Website: YouTube
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Page	You Don't Say?
Status	Dead

Description

"You Don't Say?" is a rage comic face based on a contour drawing of Nicolas Cage that is that is used as a sarcastic response to an obvious observation or statement. It is in a similar vein to O RLY image macros.

History

The phrase “you don’t say?” is an idiomatic expression used to convey surprise or astonishment but it can be also used sarcastically in response to an obvious statement. The image of Nicolas Cage was taken from a scene in the 1989 black comedy film Vampire’s Kiss, which revolves around a troubled literary agent’s descent into madness after convincing himself that he is turning into a vampire. His unique facial expression was taken from a particular scene in which Cage’s character Peter Loew torments his secretary in a disturbing manner.

The scene from Vampire Kiss was featured in a video titled Nicholas Cage Freaking Out, uploaded by YouTuber twoworldsfreak01 on July 27, 2009. A still from the scene was also used as a reaction face in a in a demotivational image captioned with “Nicolas Cage / Available in Stoic and Batshit Crazy” uploaded to Roflrazzi on August 15, 2009. The contour drawing of Nicolas Cage first appeared in a rage comic uploaded to Reddit by user LeechHax on October 1, 2011. It had been vectorized by Redditor Aveilleux for LeechHax to use specifically in his comic.

Web usage

On the same day, LeechHax’s comic was reposted to FunnyJunk where it received 4,211 up votes in the span of a month, and again posted onto image-sharing site Lowbird on October 3, 2011. Another instance was submitted to the r/funny subreddit on November 25, 2011, with the vectorized face placed next to a bag of carrots that only listed “carrots” as its ingredient. The image reached the front page, accumulating over 4,000 up votes in 5 days.

On November 27, 2011, a Facebook screenshot with the face was posted to the r/trees subreddit. Additional derivatives can be found on FunnyJunk, Reddit, and with the tag #you don't say on Tumblr. A Facebook fan page for the face has over 9000 likes as of March 2012.

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