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{{Character|name=Aww Yea|aliases=Peter Loew (real name)|image=You Don't Say.webp|species=Human|gender=Male|debut=August 15, 2009}}'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is a [[Rage Comics|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.

== 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.<ref>https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/you_don%27t_say</ref> 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.<ref>http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/08/15/celebrity-pictures-nicolas-cage-stoic-crazy/</ref> 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.<ref>https://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/2678876/you+don+t+say/</ref> 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.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/mpl8v/you_dont_say/</ref>

On November 27, 2011, a Facebook screenshot with the face was posted to the r/trees subreddit.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/trees/comments/mqvbv/you_dont_say/</ref> Additional derivatives can be found on FunnyJunk, Reddit, and with the tag ''#you don't say'' on Tumblr.<ref>https://www.funnyjunk.com/search/?q=%22you+don%27t+say%22&search-target=all&s=weight&o=desc&l=30&u</ref><ref>https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/you-dont-say--3</ref><ref>https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/you-dont-say--3</ref> A Facebook fan page for the face has over 9000 likes as of March 2012.

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