The Maker Of The Trollface Meme Is Counting His Money
You’re probably familiar with this image, the infamous “trollface” that’s circulated the Internet for years. Someone drew the original trollface, and it’s 24-year-old Carlos Ramirez.
Back in 2008, Ramirez should have been working on a college paper, but as was the case on most nights, he found himself scrolling through the anonymous image board 4chan, instead. He decided to post a comic drawn up in MS Paint, something he’d done a dozen times before. “I didn’t really have any intention to share it,” he told me. “I just posted it on their video game board and I went to sleep. I woke up the next morning and saw it re-posted in a number of other threads.” What he posted would, in short order, become Internet myth and legend: The…Read More
Source: https://kotaku.com/the-maker-of-the-trollface-meme-is-counting-his-money-1696228810