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Each and every day billions upon billions of office workers waste away hours looking at funny captioned pictures and crudely drawn comics online. One of the more popular categories of said distractions is that of rage comics. If you’re unfamiliar with them, head on over to Memebase to see how rage comics are classically done.

Reddit user and English teacher Sukosuti has taught a class of Japanese university students about rage comics and asked them to create some original comics of their own to upload on Reddit. Can non-English speakers grasp the delicate concepts behind this fine internet art? Read on to find out.

Some people didn’t fully grasp the concept.

This is a most interesting cultural experiment. Especially for those already familiar with the rage comic characters- to see them used in different situations based solely upon how the Japanese people perceive them yields unexpected and sometimes very confusing results. Crawling through page upon page of these things I rarely found one that made much sense at all.

This is even more true when English is not their first language. They’re unfamiliar with the whole concept of rage comics as it is, and then they are made to craft them in an unfamiliar language. Almost all of the funny comics in this cross culture collection are purely incidental or so silly and nonsensical that they become humorous.

I did learn one very important thing from reading these comics, however. Koichi was right about Doraemon. There is now no doubt in my mind that he deserves to be the number one most evil robot of all time.

Some people really didn’t get it.

The Japanese people do have their own memes though. There’s the legendary 2ch which spawned the infamous 4chan, and then there’s always Golden Eggs. I was first exposed to Golden Eggs when I studied abroad in Japan and some of our Japanese friends shared them with us. At first we thought they were funny enough, but then they just kept showing us more and more of them. And the more we saw, the less we wanted to see.

Our Japanese friends definitely found them to be way more funny than we did. Perhaps it was just a difference in cultural humor. Perhaps that’s why the Japanese people can’t seem to grasp what makes rage comics funny. Either way, out of all the Golden Eggs videos we experienced that day, the video shown below was hands down the best of the bunch.

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It’s not a bra!

Incidentally, these videos also seem to have played a part in what has become known as the “Ima firin’ mah lazer” meme. Strange how these things all come together, eh?

The above video is just a teaser trailer of the full episode which can be found here. Until about a week ago, this episode along with many others was available for viewing on YouTube. It seems that for whatever reason YouTube likes to pull videos as soon as I need them for my Tofugu posts :( As of now the only Golden Egg videos on YouTube are either CMs or teaser trailers like the above.

Do any of you know about any other Japan-only meme like things even more wacky than Golden Eggs and 2ch? If so, share your favorite meme in the comments. I’d love to see what other strange things they’ve got cookin’ up over there.

Y U NO FIND YOUR WALLET?

So what do you think of these Japanese attempts at rage comicry? Will they ever get the hang of it? Should they make their attempts in English like these rage comics for worldwide appeal or continue to forge their own ragey path in Japanese on 2ch? Let us know in the comments!

You can check out the full collection of these little Japanese rage gems here.

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