{"slug":"troll-face","name":"Troll Face","url":"/templates/troll-face.jpg","w":600,"h":600,"top":"THE SETUP","bottom":"PROBLEM?","description":"The original internet troll, immortalized. Make your own Troll Face meme for pranks, deliberate provocation, and anything that ends with \"problem?\"","keywords":"troll face meme, trollface meme, problem meme, rage comic meme, internet troll meme","year":2008,"origin":"Drawn by Carlos Ramirez (aka \"Whynne\") in Microsoft Paint in 2008 and posted to 4chan. The grinning, asymmetrical face became the universal symbol of internet trolling in the early rage comic era. \"Problem?\" or \"U mad?\" were the signature captions that ended a successful troll. Troll Face predates nearly every other meme on this list and helped define early internet humor culture. Shares the same 2008-era rage comic DNA as Rage Guy (pure frustration), but Troll Face is the aggressor, not the victim.","format":"classic","howToMake":["The Troll Face template is ready. Set up your prank or provocation in the top text","Write the setup in the top: what you did, what you said, or what you know. End it with \"Problem?\" or \"U Mad?\" in the bottom. That's the whole joke","Classic lays text directly over that unmistakable grin. Classic Bars frames it above and below if you want a cleaner look","Impact in white is the pure 2008 rage comic aesthetic. Smaller text for a longer setup, bigger font for a two-word gut punch at the bottom","Prank executed: Download the PNG and send it to whoever you just trolled, or Share it before they figure out what happened"],"exampleCaptions":["TOLD MY FRIEND THE MOVIE STARTED AT 7 WHEN IT STARTS AT 8","PROBLEM?"],"exampleAltText":"Troll Face meme about telling a friend the movie starts at 7 when it actually starts at 8","exampleRefreshDate":"2026-03-04","seo":{"aliases":["Trollface","Problem? Meme","U Mad Meme","Coolface","Internet Troll Face","Rage Comic Troll"],"description":"The Troll Face: a crudely drawn, asymmetrical grin that became the defining image of early internet culture. Jagged, smug, unhinged. Drawn in MS Paint and posted to 4chan in 2008, it spread through every corner of the early web as the official mascot of doing something annoying on purpose. The face says \"I know exactly what I did and I would do it again.\" Whether it ended with \"Problem?\" or \"U mad?\", the Troll Face owned every prank it was attached to.","definition":"The face that launched a thousand 4chan threads. A crude MS Paint drawing of a grinning troll: asymmetrical, gleeful, and completely unbothered. You paste it after doing something deliberately annoying, then ask \"Problem?\" The question is not sincere.","useCases":[{"category":"Classic Trolling","examples":["Replying to every message in your group chat with \"K\" for 3 days","Sending someone a 6-minute YouTube video that's just a Rickroll buried in the first 5 seconds","Walking just slow enough in a hallway that the person behind you can't pass","Saying \"I know what I'm getting you for Christmas\" and then never telling them what it is","Turning the WiFi off for 30 seconds right in the middle of someone's movie","Answering \"can you please close the door?\" by walking out and closing it behind you"]},{"category":"Sibling & Friend Pranks","examples":["Hiding the TV remote somewhere visible but slightly inconvenient for three weeks","Putting googly eyes on everything in the fridge while your roommate sleeps","Turning all the photos in someone's house upside down and waiting","Switching the sugar for salt and watching someone make morning coffee","Setting every clock in the house forward by 12 minutes","Taping a piece of paper under a colleague's mouse so the optical sensor doesn't work"]},{"category":"Office Trolling","examples":["Replying to a company-wide email that said \"please do not reply all\" with a reply all","Scheduling a calendar invite called \"Important Meeting\" with no details and no agenda","Printing the same document on the office printer every day for a month to see if anyone notices","Changing someone's autocorrect so \"the\" becomes \"teh\" and waiting for them to send an important email","Putting googly eyes on the food in the communal fridge"]},{"category":"Online Trolling","examples":["Posting \"first\" on a video that was uploaded 3 years ago","Answering \"does anyone know what time it is?\" in an online forum with the correct time for a different time zone","Commenting \"this is the best movie I've ever seen\" on a trailer then listing a completely different movie","Asking a deeply controversial question in a subreddit, then immediately logging off","Replying to any \"unpopular opinion\" with \"actually that's a very popular opinion\"","Leaving a 5-star review that only says \"it arrived\""]},{"category":"Gaming Trolls","examples":["Healing yourself instead of your teammate, then looking directly at the camera","Spending 45 minutes building an elaborate decoy base instead of playing the objective","Following a teammate around the entire match without doing anything useful","Using the worst possible weapon in a ranked match and going positive anyway","Quitting the game with one second left on the clock when your team is about to win","Naming your character something that ruins every screenshot"]},{"category":"Family Trolling","examples":["Telling your parents you have \"big news to share\" and then announcing you finally cleaned your room","Answering every question at Thanksgiving with \"it's complicated\"","Setting your parents' phone language to a language they don't speak and leaving","Saying \"I love your new haircut\" to someone who did not get a haircut","Asking someone mid-meal if something tastes \"a bit off to you\""]},{"category":"Vintage Internet Humor","examples":["2009 YouTube: leave a like if you're watching this in [future year]","The era of Rickrolling people by disguising the link as something useful","Fake \"you have won a prize\" popups that were somehow believable in 2008","Typing A/S/L in a chatroom and lying about all three","Marking an email as \"urgent\" with the exclamation point when it absolutely was not urgent","The art of slowly spoiling a movie in a comment section over the span of 48 hours"]}]}}