About

"X's RAEP FAIC" is a Youtube fad where someone takes a weird face of a random character (Most responders make it Team Fortress 2), put it in a video. The video contains the face the camera zooms in the character, to the sound of the Team Fortress 2 music, 'Rocket Jump Waltz', sometimes slowing it down.

Origin

In October 26, 2009, a Youtube user called chuckeepooper has posted a video called RAEP FAIC, with the face of the Demoman from TF2:

This is the official fad starter, bringing it 142 responses (2010).

Spread

2 days after the video was posted, the first response was up, calling it Medic's RAEP FAIC:

It quickly dragged over to other characters, such as: