If you’re publishing a game on a major platform and it’s using my image, it’s kind of hard to ignore.” If they’re not making any significant money on it, it’s like, eh, not a big deal.
It’ll take too much time, and let people have their fun. If it’s a really minor thing, I can’t be bothered with it. “People message me,” he said, “‘Hey, look, your trollface was used here! You oughta sue these guys” I just say ‘Okay, I’ll look at it.’ And I look at it. In addition, Ramirez also offered a backstory behind the removal of Meme Run from Wii U eShop, quoted as saying: Copyright Office in 2010, with monthly revenues reaching as high as $15,000 at its peak in popularity. In the article, the Trollface artist estimated that he has earned more than $100,000 in licensing fees, settlements and other payouts since registering with the U.S. On April 8th, 2015, Kotaku ran an in-depth interview article with Ramirez about his now-iconic rage comic character. On March 3rd, 2015, Meme Run, an endless-running 2D platformer video game featuring a plethora of internet meme references, including the Trollface, was removed from the Wii U eShop following the issuance of a Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown notice from Ramirez as the copyright holder of the character (shown below). The background image for the f7u12 pages was changed to a picture of trollface with the text "HEY WHYNNE… U MAD BRO?": You know what also makes me happy? Trolling reddit and seeing a shitstorm like this develop. Then, a Redditor named Whynne reponded to the thread saying: The email was reposted to f7u12 in a thread titled "Looks like f7u12 is done". The email stated that the use of Trollface on Reddit violated his copyright on the image and requested the subreddit to be removed from the site.
On July 16th, 2011, a screenshot of an email sent to an undisclosed recipient from a man named Carlos Ramirez claiming to be Whynne was posted to Reddit. Thousands of additional webcomic and photoshopped instances featuring the face can be found Tumblr, Cheezburger, Reddit, Facebook, Quickmeme and Memegenerator among many others. On August 1st, 2009, the first Urban Dictionary definition for "trollface" was submitted by user A Terrible Driver. Throughout the first half of 2009, Trollface quickly gained favor with Redditors and rage comic artists in particular, in part owing to the rapid growth of the /r/f7u12 subreddit around that same time. For a brief time, the face became alternatively known as "the coolface" after a rage comic-style webcomic took off on 4chan and Ebaumsworld, though only for a brief period of time. In the following months, Ramirez' drawing quick gained traction on 4chan as the universal emoticon of an Internet troll and a versatile rage comic character. In the deviantART post, Ramirez added a note revealing that he was attempting to draw a comic character known as the "Rape Rodent." The comic was uploaded to deviantART on September 19th, 2008. Again, only the versions of such characters that appear in a clearly bigoted context would be considered hate symbols.The Trollface was originally drawn by Carlos Ramirez, an Oakland-based artist known by his DeviantART handle Whynne, as part of a MS Paint webcomic about the pointless nature of trolling on 4chan's /v/ (video games) board. Just as racist versions of “Pepe the Frog” and “Trollface” exist, so too do bigoted versions of some other cartoon images popularized by 4chan and similar sites, such as Wojak/Feels Guy. Only “Trollface” memes used in conjunction with Nazi, racist or anti-Semitic imagery or language would be considered hate symbols. The great majority of “Trollface” memes are not racist or anti-Semitic in nature and no one should assume that mere use of a “Trollface” image has a connection to white supremacy or bigotry. In some other versions, “Trollface” was depicted as a Jew. Inevitably, racist and anti-Semitic versions of the “Trollface” meme appeared, the most common of which pictured “Trollface” as a Nazi or as Adolf Hitler, or appearing in the context of Nazi imagery. The image became popular on 4chan itself, whose users created many versions of the image, often accompanied by phrases such as “Problem?” or “You mad, bro?” “Trollface” is a cartoon drawing of the head of a man with a large, malicious smile that has become, like “ Pepe the Frog,” one of the most well-known of the cartoon meme images popularized by websites such as 4chan.Īccording to the Know Your Meme website, “Trollface” originated in 2008 in a cartoon intended to mock the constant trolling on the website 4chan.
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