About
“I Lied” is a nefarious-looking blue and black drawing of a face that is often used as the punchline of rage comics. It is meant to indicate that the subject in the comic has been dishonest in some way, but with a very small “white lie” that is fairly insignificant.
Origin
The Reddit Timeline of Rageface Origins 1 places the first instance of ‘I Lied’ on May 10th, 2011 in a post by Redditor Coveiro2 with a comic about lying to his mother about doing his homework.3
Although this was the first use of the image, the face that became common in other rage comics came from a second ‘I Lied’ thread made by Coveiro on May 14th, 2011, containing a slightly different animated gif version of the comic and a darker version of the head.4
Precursors: Psych
The rage face functions in a similar fashion to the slang word “psych” (also known as “sike”, or “syke”), that indicates that a lie has just been told.
The word often used as an exclamation which serves to tell what you just said was false or wrong.
used to retract a lie
used to fake, fool, or decieve someone in a funny joking sarcastic way
means “just kidding” or “not!”
may also be spelled sike or psyche5
Examples
External References
1 Reddit – Timeline Of Rageface Origins
2 Reddit – Coveiro’s User Page
3 Reddit – I Was Way Evil Back Then
4 Reddit – Still Evil