Y U No
Where it came from
A rage-comic face that spread around 2010-2011 in the Tumblr/reddit rage-comic scene. The screaming stretched head was traced from a panel of the manga Gantz, which almost nobody using it knew at the time.
A stick figure with a grotesquely stretched, screaming face throws its arms out in total exasperation. You slap text over it in the shape "[X], Y U NO [Y]?" — "INTERNET, Y U NO WORK", "FRIEND, Y U NO TEXT BACK". The deliberately broken grammar is the whole bit: it's the sound of someone too frustrated to form a full sentence.
This was peak rage-comic-era internet. For a stretch of 2011 it was everywhere — the go-to way to vent about any minor inconvenience, usually in Impact font on a colored background. It belonged to the same family as Forever Alone and Trollface, back when MS Paint stick figures were the dominant language of the meme internet.
It's dead, and it died hard. Rage comics aged worse than almost anything from that period — posting one now reads as a deliberate "remember 2011?" bit, not an actual joke. The face traced from Gantz outlived everyone's memory of where it came from, which is the most rage-comic ending possible.
Search interest, over time
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