Rage Comics Are Dying a Slow, Painful Death

The Internet's long communal nightmare may finally be ending. We now have hard data that proves rage comics are plummeting in popularity.

If you've never heard of rage comics, be thankful. The cartoons bubbled up out of imageboard 4chan in 2008 before spreading like a crudely drawn cancer to Reddit and humor sites 9GAG and FunnyJunk, then popular culture at large.

If you ever heard some use "le" or "derp" or "herp" or (shudder) "sexytime" in daily life, you can thank rage comics.

There are rage comic T-shirts. Teachers use them as instructional tools. You could even insert the images in Facebook chat.

The comics are essentially emoticons -- a set of faces that represent common em…
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