The Bizarre Transformation of Trollface

The story of Trollface: as it went from lovable household meme to deep, dark, disturbing horror.
Thanks to all creators mentioned and unmentioned for content used.All content used fairly and with added constructive elements from myself for the sake of entertainement/discussion.
Cool silent hill breakcore playlist i used towards the end: • Silent Hill Breakcore/...
Credit for that one found footage style video i used throughout but never fully mentioned: • Beware of The Trollfac...

[@Spaghoni]

Trollface is truly a one of a kind meme, I highly doubt any other old school meme could replicate the re-emergence and popularity its garnered. This video was a blast to watch, I feel the editing was a huge step up from your previous videos and i cant wait to see what the future of the channel has to offer

[@Spaghoni]

Also, adding the soundtrack names when it played in the video was such a great quality of life improvement. I just had to mention it

[@FncCaesar]

your icebergs are GREAT THE PVZ ONE IS PERFECT you need to make more of them your a really good youtube your gonna get evreything u need ur gonna blow up trust me.

[@lugalan]

ok i trust you, i am making new iceberg video at the moment, i look forward to seeing your reaction to it when it comes out eventually

[@Jz_1_]

@@lugalan soo how's it going

[@lugalan]

@@Jz_1_i finished the video in January but youtube is not co-operating with my monetisation so i've had to delay its upload by a couple months. With some luck it will be out in April.

[@utjekutje]

broo im high af rn and that knock sound at thr start was NOY needed LMFAOO

[@JuicyBurger29]

Yep you are definitely high… No offense

[@malthe236]

What are you smoking And can I have some?

[@josedorsaith5261]

That was in the video? It freaked me out, too 😂

[@sonofsparda657]

im glad i read that seconds before it happened, or i wouldve definitely fallen for it

[@Sirslowworm]

Our attempts to bring him back only twisted his identity further... what a shame

[@Sneezebot8000]

Incredible video once again, I never knew just how uncanny things got with trollface and this video was a great look into the history and transformation of trollface into the protagonist of a creepypasta esque sub-genre. Great stuff, I hope that this video gets the views that it deserves

[@santiagotamulis5833]

I used to read rage comics all the time in the early 2010’. I haven’t thought about troll face for years.I didn’t knew all this crazy lore. It’s like learning an old childhood friend got in trouble with the law and ended up on prison.

[@alias6676]

We can't forget that the trollge came in a perfect time to blow up as it did. It was the time when analog horror and liminal spaces gained a lot of popularity as well as the now legendary "It's just a burning memory" by The Caretaker resurfaced. At the same time Wendigoon begun his internet activity popularizing horror even further. The pandemic struck as well locking everyone down, causing a lot of depression and reminding us of out fragile mortality. Internet became the perfect breeding ground for indie horror stories and trollge became the perfect vessel for that.

[@lucas-qp8st]

well done. Good video again, I hope to see the next...

[@snowflakeee]

how does this have so little views I thought this would've had 100k views, such a good video essay

[@FeTetra]

seeing trollege incidents in the video is almost surreal, since about 3 years ago i was literally up watching these at the same time of day and place im watching this

[@RYG122]

Once again another amazing video keep up the good work! 👍

[@nonamewuzhere]

This is really weird but I had never heard of the Cover Yourself in Oil meme. I saw it referenced in a video I was watching like 30 minutes before I clicked this one and was so confused by what it meant. It's crazy how that one meme has sparked an entire subgenre of cryptic horror. You did an AMAZING job laying out the timeline; I never knew Trollface had evolved this way. It hit home with me in such a different way since I was an iFunny user back in the late 00s and early 10s. Great work, please never stop doing what you love

[@krackkorn6324]

Fascinating how many clips utilize Everywhere at the end of time songs

[@CatBountry]

Is Trollface really capable of dying? I initially thought it had in the early 2010's, seeing one on a t-shirt for sale at a bodega at the mall. I remember thinking the meme was dead outside of ironic references to it in the form of redrawing it in MS Paint with synonymous phrases to "Problem?" in forms of increasingly elaborate ways to inform the viewer that they had been trolled. That lasted for a bit, and every once in a while I would see Trollface pop up in some kind of ironic context. Now that Trollface has been brought into the landscape of the 2020's internet, it's mutated but... the best examples you showed had a sort of pitch-black humor to them just through the initial subversion of the Troll Logic format (because of course this was a specific subgenre of Trollface memes). I had no idea any of these memes existed beyond the May 2021 NYC "Heaven's Stairway" Incident, which I genuinely find funny. And the best Trollge stuff looks like the people who made them were either having a laugh or just a lot of fun making them; I cannot take them seriously no matter how gruesome or disturbing they are because it's Trollface. Am I old? I might be old. I feel like Trollface, at this point, is too important to internet culture to ever fully go away. Doge memes mutated similarly and got increasingly more weird and specific. Pepe became a hate symbol but mutations of him live on through his use on places like Twitch. Cat videos are eternal, and Simpsons references have been there since the start of the World Wide Web. Nobody rushed to revive the Dancing Baby or Hampster Dance or All Your Base are Belong to Us. They could have picked any meme, but so long as trolling is a thing, I'm not sure Trollface will ever truly die. He'll live on, just to troll you, even if he doesn't have a resurgence quite like the beginning of the 2020's. Trolling is a art, after all.

[@lugalan]

Thanks again CatBountry, for such a thoughtful comment. I enjoy reading your thoughts on my videos, and thanks for watching in the first place.

[@CatBountry]

@@lugalan No problem. I'm incredibly invested in internet history and always down to talk about it to whoever will listen, as well as find things that I would otherwise not know about. I just think it's neat.

[@vlc-cosplayer]

"They could have picked any meme, but so long as trolling is a thing, I'm not sure Trollface will ever truly die." Trolling has been a thing for the longest time, look up the "trickster archetype". The Trollface is the incarnation of a Jungian archetype. That's why it keeps coming back, the human subconscious instinctively recognizes it.

[@CatBountry]

@@vlc-cosplayer I mean, yeah, if you want to go bigger picture with that, that's true. But I was more referring to Trollface specifically in regards to the internet and trolling as it's understood in the culture of the internet. Anonymity makes causing mischief more enticing, as the reaction doesn't involve risking physical confrontation. That's not wholly unique to the internet, but it's a lot easier.

[@twitchyeyess]

This video is just 40 minutes of that image of the Soyjak showing you things on his phone. This time he’s showing you dated trollface memes.

[@mutinimatthew]

I love your videos, very well made! Keep it up! ❤

[@adam0cles]

i just came across your channel, and i’m in love with your editing style. keep it up.

[@sparrowthesissy2186]

As a millennial who spends a lot of time studying ancient apocalyptic memes... this one hits different. A lot of times in the past, art about frustration at this grand scale has a major political subtext. These people feel powerless against the entrenched systems of their day and can't help but fantasize about lashing out at them, and even having cosmic forces intervene to destroy those responsible. And with these Trollge epics, they're about joining in with that apocalypse, becoming part of the revolution, and throwing off all external and internal pressure to submit to the power structure. You can see a kind of Lovecraftian parody in the Trollge stuff, obviously, but I think these are tapping into the same feelings of political rage that fueled the original apocalyptic fantasies. But perhaps that's just me making everything about my special interests. Great vid, Lugalan. I had no idea about this stuff.

[@herminlionel1909]

I think it’s existential, not political. The ideas of childhood memories, lying in bed, pursuing happiness, “what do you see when you look in the mirror?”. They are all too personal and specific to the individual. It feels like the creators are grasping for meaning and coming up short every time. It’s not a coincidence so many of these situations end in su1cide.

[@sparrowthesissy2186]

@@herminlionel1909 A story of battling the unseen negative forces controlling the universe, which ends in a heroic self-sacrifice and the beginning of a new era... I suppose if you see that as existential or political depends on how you interpret such stories generally. Perhaps the distinctions are fuzzier than we usually think.

[@RhettDX]

Dude I love your documentaries only 900 views is ridiculous

[@Frustratedartist2]

It's so nice to hear the term "rage comics" again ❤

[@azimochaa]

I love the breakcore intro and outro It's been a while since ive listened to that genre

[@sharkbait5557]

I won’t lie I forgot what I was watching halfway through and zoned in during one of the disturbing trollface montages

[@RileyLittlehales]

Trollface is the embodiment of evolution and cognitohazards and overall....he is the most powerful being...which you should cover...THE OMNIVERSAL DEVOURER...the most broken character to exist

[@IamEscBoy]

uncredited pitch-shifted yume nikki music

[@glhftsuki]

hey man, sick intro and nice choice of background music

[@anderaf]

Well now Trollface got reincarnated into brainrot

[@Zz-_-]

The "emersion" incident

[@nechew4357]

I watched 2 viedeos then look that they only hit around 1.5k views??? Wth is this underated level it's off the charts I thought this was a big channel with near 500k-1M subs!

[@Gir101Evil]

there's no way the "cover yourself in oil, fly" comic is from 2020? I feel like I saw that around like 2012??

[@Brokenwrist_0]

Im going to all of the incident locations and 3d print trollges

[@Lankyisepic]

Cook.

[@mateussemh1007]

Why does this banger only has 400 views

[@broma-q3s]

Man i love yabujin

[@luxcvy]

you forgot about r/true_reddit and r/kill_her, the subreddits that got rage comics and the trollface into this, but overall good video.

[@maxgarcia1454]

good god I don't get this from a lot of scary distorted face images anymore, but that "what do you see when you look in the mirror" face just..I had to skip ahead

[@ArthurLaurent-r7j]

6:34 splatoon

[@BadmanYT-1254]

1000% underated

[@Bill-cipher1542]

the new god incident?

[@zivamayne]

The video was enjoyed

[@binbagbeanie]

Just curious, what happened to the Pepsi man video? Just wondering

[@lugalan]

it will be back up with my next upload, im astonished someone even noticed!

[@binbagbeanie]

Can’t wait!. It was a really well edited vid

[@lugalan]

@@binbagbeanie wow thank you! out of curiosity, which video do you thinks the best out of the ones ive made!?

[@binbagbeanie]

Hmmm. Probably the Pepsi man video. Since the topic is very obscure however you still made the video really entertaining. You definitely have a really bright future ahead of you on this channel!

[@binbagbeanie]

But the pvz iceberg was amazing. I’ve been apart of the pvz community for years and I still learnt some new stuff from it. Also I love the visuals on your video. For example on the final tier you showed the gw1 zombies trailer but it looked all distorted. I found that To be a really nice touch considering it’s a dark and I guess creepy area of the iceberg if that makes sense.

[@Trololodevourer]

Wait if trollge is dead could it be im reviving trollge? I still make trollge

[@yeln4tsmusic]

Underrated as fuck

[@BeanOfBean]

What’s the DnB at the first 30 seconds of the video

[@lukarangel4288]

I thought u gon do a face reveal @ 3:50

[@vergilsparda345]

This is Subing content

[@Wyi-the-rogue]

troll wendigo

[@ink68.9]

Dont tell him about trollge roblox games

[@bubblybunny4795]

cooll

[@BadmanYT-1254]

18:13 Then that video went on to have more views than this one ;-;

[@lugalan]

I know, that joke has probably become the all-time most ironic joke on the channel

[@krackkorn6324]

bro u need to be bigger

[@mrwilson3636]

🎉w

[@blueninety]

What's the song at 5:22?

[@ArthurLaurent-r7j]

the center of solace

[@JuicyBurger29]

Guess what buckaroo! I’m subbing whether you like it or not! Muahahahahahahaha Nyehehehehehehehe Ngaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Lol

[@aaronf7181]

i ruined 69 comments

[@animacje2126]

Damn man, your work is really high quality so now the only thing you need to grow is time, the amount of views on this video after 3 months is criminal

[@animacje2126]

Cool channel bbg