About

PFFFTTTCHH refers to a Rage Comics character depicting a person who is barely able to contain their laughter, expressed through the accompanying text reading "PFFFTTTCHH." The character likely originates from an emote by an unknown artist and became a staple Rage Face in late 2009.

Origin

On November 29th, 2009, now-deleted Redditor u/HalfDemon1122 posted a Rage Comic to /r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu depicting someone trying to troll Omegle users by posing as the FBI (shown below). In the second panel, a character who appears to be holding back laughter, represented by a string of letters starting with "PFFFTTTCHH," is shown. The post gained over 300 upvotes in 12 years and is the earliest known use of the character in a Rage Comic. It is unclear if the poster created the face.

The face was highly praised by commenters, seeing it as an excellent addition to Rage Faces (example comments shown below).

The face is likely a tracing based on a yellow emote sharing the identical emotion known as the "Plz" emote (shown below). On December 9th, 2009, Deviant Art^[1] user Plz-database posted the emote, offering the earliest known live upload of it, but not pre-dating the first "PFFFTTTCHH" Rage Comic.

Spread

On December 26th, 2009, Redditor u/Poromenos made a post to /r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu^[2] asking users to link their favorite Rage Faces as a way to collect them all in one place. On that day, the creator of the post commented with the "PFFFTTTCHH" face, garnering over 150 upvotes in 11 years.

The face saw considerable use in Rage Comics over the course of the following years, featuring in numerous variations and becoming a staple of the format (examples shown below).

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