

Several Facebook pages have been created for the rage face, the most popular of which "Yao Ming (Face)" has accumulated 44,628 likes as of February 16th, 2011. The meme has since spread to Tumblr, FunnyJunk and MemeBase. On May 23rd, "dumbbitch"" was replaced with "fuckthatshit" for the Yao Ming face label in the Reddit rage face comment icons list. While several spider burning rage comics did appear before hand the one first associated with the Yao Ming face was by Redditor punkhobo. The comics typically end with the Yao Ming face setting fire to an entire house in order to destroy a single arachnid.
#Old rage comics series
In April of 2011, a series of rage comics were submitted to the f7u12 subreddit, using the Yao Ming face as a response to discovering spiders. Redditor chotheamazing replied to the post calling the Yao Ming drawing “fuck that shit face guy.” The image was often referred to as “dumb bitch” until February 19th, 2011, when a rage comic titled “I let my 7 year old cousin use the rage editor and this is what she made” by Redditornagem reached the front page of the f7u12 subreddit, accumulating 3,990 up votes prior to being archived. On September 13th, 2010, a rage comic featuring the Yao Ming face accompanied by the caption "dumb bitch" was submitted to the f7u12 subreddit by Redditor fifa10. Redditor wallish replied to the thread referring to the face as "Asian Laughing Guy."

On August 31st, 2010, the face was included in an updated rage template image post in the f7u12 subreddit. Redditor alkalait replied to the thread remarking that it appeared as if Yao Ming was saying "bitch please." In the same thread, downlow confirmed that the drawing was based on a screen capture of Ming from the press conference in May. On July 11th, 2010, a Reddit post was submitted by artist “downlow” which featured numerous drawings he had created for rage comics that were never used, including the Yao Ming drawing. At :18 in the video below, the athlete is seen making the face after his teammate Ron Artest leaves the site of interview. The drawing is based on a stillshot photograph of Yao Ming captured from a post-game press conference in May 2009. The image is typically used as a reaction face to convey a dismissive attitude towards someone else's input in online discussions, then usually following something that one ups their input.
#Old rage comics professional
Yao Ming Face (sometimes referred to as "Fuck That Guy" or "Dumb Bitch") is a rage comic-style contour drawing of the professional basketball player Yao Ming wearing a hearty smile. Rage comic, image macro, yao ming, disregard, dismissal, reaction, reddit, dismiss, stillshot drawing, yaoming, sports, basketball, nba, ron artest
