About

"Coaxed Into a Snafu" refers to a series of poorly drawn rage comic and advice animal characters that are captioned with variations of popular Internet catchphrases. The illustrations typically mock the way Internet memes are incorrectly used on sites like 9gag and Reddit.

Origin

On October 7th, 2012, the "Princess Bubblegum" Facebook^[3] page posted an image featuring a variety of poorly-drawn trollfaces to the "Hipster High Five Ghost" Facebook page (shown below). On the top row of illustrations, the third face from the right featured a caption which read "you have been coaxed / into a snafu).

Spread

On October 13th, 2012, a Facebook^[5] page titled "You have been coaxed into a snafu" was launched. On October 20th, Redditor kurtss submitted a gallery of additional trollface variations titled "You have been coaxed into a snafu" to the /r/4chan^[1] subreddit (shown below). Prior to being archived, the post gained over 1,700 up votes and 50 comments.

On November 5th, FunnyJunk^[4] user iMagnet submitted many of the illustrations to the Internet humor site, where it received more than 53,000 views and 700 up votes in the following two years. On January 31st, 2013, the /r/coaxedintoasnafu^[2] subreddit was launched by Redditor ashanmaril.

Notable Examples

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