I'm upvoting this, not because I think it's a good idea, but because I want to live in a more surreal world, and having startups audition using rage comics seems like a great leap forward.

"me gusta" isn't just pleasure, but pleasure from something others might consider strange. Having your startup make users go "me gusta" might not be what you want. See: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sweet-jesus-face-sweet-jesus-h...

Ahh you're right. The "Sweet Jesus" face would be more appropriate for that incredible bliss. It is important to understand the subtleties.

One part that I had forgotten to talk about within the post was the fact that each face can't be lumped into a single emotive adjective.

It is the fact that the faces can mean different things depending on the context of what happened before and what happened after actually gives them more power over its written counterpart.

I'd argue it's in the subtle details of different facial arrangements that help explain why there is such a strong effect of empathy.

I feel like reddit.com should be referenced in this article. All I know about rage comics comes from reddit.

Here's my rage comic for http://mocku.ps and also my very first rage comic.

http://imgur.com/HKSI3

Awesome idea! This would benefit greatly from a "starter deck" of stock pictures collected from knowyourmeme or possibly less reputable but fresher sources.

A clean site that I used to make the sample comics is at: http://ragemaker.net

It has a listing of the standard emotive faces that you can drag and drop to portray your story.

There you go: http://imgur.com/lztPh. Not exactly a "rage" comic though...

Awesome, would love to see more of these.

Perhaps this is a litmus test for my own ideas!

jiggity, this is an awesome idea. i think i'm going to do this and put it in a pitch deck. =)

i totally made one of these for messageparty in april. will have to dig through my inbox...