The forever alone rage comic has squashed, wrinkled head with an enormous jaw and dimpled chin, and a stick figure body. He is usually depicted as crying in the final panel of a comic along with the words forever alone, used a kind of punchline after some experience of failure, rejection, or isolation in romantic relationships. For instance, one comic begins with a stick figure coming home from
work and announcing, “Honey, I’m home.” The character then eats a literal jar of honey, culminating in the forever alone
face with traces of honey on his lips.
The forever alone
face appeared in a
popular 2010 video game, Super Meat Boy, and a marketing campaign by Sony Ericsson’s Xperiathon, a solo marathon project. Interest in the phrase forever alone peaked on Google Trends in
2012—
right around Valentine’s Day.
The forever alone rage comic became
popular to the point that the expression forever alone took off as its own meme in the mainstream, and is often used as a hashtag or a reaction comment in social media.
