Awesome
This article is about Something Awesome, for Something Painful, see Awesome.jpg.
Awesome Face, or just Awesome, as some people call it, is a rather highly populated shitty meme on 4chan, Something Awful and Facepunch. In current times it is no longer "Awesome", but overused and about as funny as AIDS, srsly. Only fags, basement dwellers, script kiddies or, in other words, 13-year-old boys use it as their profile picture to show how tough, funny and "Awesome" they think they are.
Origins[edit]
It all started on some poorly designed Wapanese forum called Pokemopolis. A female anon (who also happened to be a member of the forum Something Awful) drew the Awesome face as an emoticon for the community. Somebody thought it was very funny at first, but cried when they realized it was just a shitty drawing of a face looking diagonally and doing the :D face. In retaliation he posted it on 4chan, from where it spread across teh internets. It eventually became so damn annoying that even the original artist began hating it, and hoped that posting it anywhere would summon the banhammer, according to this quote:
"I drew the icon years ago as part of an emoticon set he wanted for their new forum software, and I think he showed you all the other ones that were designed along with it. I’m not really sure what exactly I wanted it to represent but I think the ‘ridiculous childish glee’ that it now signifies is probably close!I’m also a member at Something Awful and the first time I saw it posted I did a double take… I even remember my mind racing as to why and HOW someone had picked up a crappy lil’ icon off a tiny website, and I’m still not sure to this day… I assume a Pokemopolis member posted it on 4Chan. At that point I thought its posting would be a one time thing, but then I saw it more and more. It got to the point where I couldn’t read SA because everytime I saw it I’d just be completely freaked out, and naturally I came to hate it! I hoped every day that it would become bannable to post it, but the next best thing was replacing the VBCode. I also posted in BYOB in a thread Whalley made saying that I had made the icon originally, trying to get him to divulge where *he* had gotten it from. Most of SA assumed it was a ‘BYOB thing’ which was probably good because they’d probably want to lynch me if they actually knew where it was from.
I never expected it to become such a widespread meme, and I can’t say I even understand why its popular or why people want to make bag pins of it (Sure wish I could get some commission for the design though haha). It still weirds me out when I see webcomics use it though I’ve grown used to it now, sometimes I even tell nerdy neckbeard types that my dirty secret is *psst I drew THAT smiley*, which makes them say “MOAR!” or whatever is cool on 4Chan this week.
Though just for clarity sake my excuse for being on a Pokemon site in the first place was that I was young and stupid. But that’s the price of Internet fame! - Original Artist of Awesome Face, documented by Chris Ainsworth
Parodies[edit]
Ever since it started becoming lame, the smiley has had different versions made. It's even still going on now, with a few prime examples of said versions being "Nobody fucking cares", "It's not funny" and "It won't ever get as popular as the original and you should stop wasting time on making them inside your mom's basement".
Scout is pretty awesome
answer to How do i shot web? in awesome form
not at all like first post
Why do I have a sudden craving for fried chicken?
Awesome IRL
AUTISM Variant
Awesome smells copypasta...
Im so clever!
Rick Rolling is pretty awesome.
Bill Kaulitz is pretty awesome
Metal can be awesome too
The awesome signal
No idea what the fuck this is
Oh lawd
Awesome comic
Web 2.0 version, now with gradients!
何それ?
Drugs are pret-ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOAWESOME!
Awesome - now in wallpaper form.
Awesome borealis wallpaper
Awesome background
Animu awesome
Olimar awesome
MOAR!!!
pfffffffff....
The great thing about awesome isn't just being awesome, it's showing everyone online that I am.
Xbox 360 version
This game is awesomeHAHAHA, XBOX FAGS DISREGARD THIS, THEY SUCK COCKS!.Dat ass is awesome
Futurama is awesome
Some argue that Bulbasaur can evolve into Bulbawesome...
Evil Kirby is awesome.
Cake²
The High Score
Gordon Freeman is awesome.
Awesome as he appears in LoZ
Geisha awesome.
Cats are pretty awesome
Cats are RLY awesome
Babies are awesome
Pirates are Awesome!
Now on DS
Communawesome animoots you!
Ultros is awesome!
Super fighting awesome, Megaman!
Rule 34 can be pretty awesome.
Candlejack is pretty awes
Captain Falcon is awesome!
Boo is awesome!
Weegee is awesome.
IRL Awesome
Will Ferrel is pretty awesome.
Failwesome, it's you!
Loli can be awesome, too.
Doctor Manhattan is pretty awesome
The Silk Spectre is pretty awesome
Nite Owl is pretty awesome
Rorschach is pretty awesome
Ozymandias is pretty awesome
The Comedian is pretty awesome
Hunters are pretty awesome
Animal Crossing is pretty awesome
Ocelot is pretty awesome
Code Geass is pretty awesome
Old Snake is pretty awesome
Haruhi is pretty awesome
Two face is pretty awesome
Gears of War is pretty awesome
Buneary is pretty awesome
Michelangelo is pretty awesome
MS Paint is awesome!
Kirby is pretty awesome
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the internets...
Partying hard is pretty awesome
Awesome Earth
Koffing is awesome.
Epic awesome
Doom is pretty awesome
Swine flu is pretty awesome
Earth is pretty awesome.
Nannerpus is awesome.
Diaperfurs are awesome
Jissouseki are awesome
Skullfuck is awesome!
Fat guys are awesome!
Music is pretty awesome.
Lens Flares are pretty awesome.
Explosions are pretty awesome.
Naruto is pretty awesome.
Oxycontin is awesome.
Awesome Car
Another awesome GIF
Awesome Movies[edit]
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See Also[edit]
External Links[edit]
- Sleuthing into the origin, and spread of :awesome:
- :awesome: appears to have originated at pokemopolis, as early as 2003.
- Awesome persona for Firefox.
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