The Character soon became known as "Epic Fail Guy." On September 30th, 2006, a thread was posted in which "Epic Fail Guy" found a Guy Fawkes mask similar to the one in the movie V for Vendetta in a ...

On August 26th, 2017, Discord user posted the earliest known variant of the meme in the JabGood server ... On July 27th, Redditor mijuzz7 used Thumbs Up Crying Cat in a captioned post to r/dankmemes ...