LOL Guy
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LOL Guy (or 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 14th, 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 18th, the earliest known instance of LOL Guy rage comic was submitted to the /r/f7u12 subreddit, featuring a customer attempting to return a fake Pokemon game cartridge to the EB Games store. Prior to being archived, the post received over 155 up votes and 30 comments. On August 3rd, 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 26th, 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 18th, 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 13th, a Facebook page titled “LOL Guy” was launched, accumulating over 900 likes within the next six months. On November 4th, Etsy seller Madeleine Fair Juul listed a LOL Guy ring on her store page. On January 19th, 2013, DragonArt user Dawn submitted an instructional post on how to draw the LOL Guy.
Counterparts
There has been numerous counterparts o 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-word Yeah Guy, Y U NO Guy, Okay Guy, and numerous rage comic characters includingDerpina. There has been numerous counterparts of the meme that can be found on ther internet and also photoshopped and real life counterparts of him. There also has been a popular seen photo of a CG Graphics Picture of Lol Guy and also a photoshopped picture of PewDiePie and also 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 Memegenerator as well. Since then, The Lol 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 aMeh Cat version of him named "Cat Lol" who appears to do the same emotion as him even though with the appearance of a cat.
