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About
The NO face is a rage comic character that is used to dismiss or disapprove of another person’s idea. In comments, it is sometimes used as a standalone reaction image in similar vein to other negative rage faces like “Are You Serious” face, Yao Ming face and “Are You F**king Kidding Me” face.
Origin
The drawing was created for use on the forums for Cheat Engine, an open source game modifying system. Chris Farral, better known by his handle Up2Admin[1], uploaded the image on August 10th, 2010[2] to the site’s Art subforum. One of the earliest comics utilizing the face was shared on Memebase[4] on December 5th, 2010.
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Spread
The face was allegedly used throughout the Cheat Engine forum before it began appearing on Reddit[12], 4chan’s /b/ (random) and on Facebook. It was added to the rage comic character repository All The Rage Faces[11] on August 6th, 2011. It was used on humor blog Me Gusta Memes[5] for the first time on September 17th, 2011, followed by an appearance on Funny Pictures Blog[6] five days later. On September 23rd, 2011, Farral reuploaded the image to deviantArt[3], noting that he had seen the face begin to spread and wanted to repost it outside of the forums before someone else tried to take credit it.
In December 2011, it was included in a rage face post on the IGN forums[7] A Facebook fan page[8] was created for the face in November 2011, which has 133 likes as of June 2012. Comics with No. are shared on Tumblr under the tags “no rage face”[9] and “no meme.”[10]
Notable Examples
Rage Comics
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Reaction Face
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External References
[1] CheatEngine Forums – Up2Admin’s profile
[2] Cheat Engine Forums – Reaction Face
[3] deviantArt – Nope – Reaction Face
[4] Memebase – No face means No.
[6] Funny Pictures Blog – Rage Comics – NO
[7]IGN – Meme Faces
[8] Facebook – No! Rage Face
[9] Tumblr – Posts tagged “no rage face”
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “no meme”
[11] All The Rage Faces – Angry No
[12] Reddit – The Epic Battle that I always lose