About
Are You Frustrated is a photoshop meme in which the subject’s face is elongated using the clone stamp tool in the Adobe Photoshop image editing software.
Origin
On April 1st, 2010, the earliest known instance was posted to the /m/ (Mecha) board on the imageboard 4chan,[2] featuring the face of the character Siegfried Kircheis from Legend of the Galactic Heroes[1] (shown below).
Spread
On November 25th, 2011, the same Siegfried Kircheis image was posted in a thread on the /jp/ (Otaku) board on 4chan.[4] On March 17th, 2012, Redditor TheBeckwithSays submitted a photoshopped picture of a Gorilla Munch cereal box with the gorilla mascot’s neck elongated accompanied by the caption “Are your jimmies rustled?” (shown below) to the /r/WTF[3] subreddit. Prior to being archived, the post garnered upwards of 1,500 up votes and 70 comments.
Notable Examples
Search Interest
External References
[1]Wikipedia – Legend of the Galactic Heroes
[2]Foolz Archive – Mecha Thread
[3]Reddit – Yes yes they are
[4]Foolz Archive – Otaku Culture