

The original comic by Ramirez mocked trolls however, the image is widely used by trolls. Trollface shows a troll, someone who annoys others on the internet for their own amusement.

In March 2021, Ramirez announced his intention to sell a non-fungible token for Trollface. From 4chan, Trollface spread to Reddit and Urban Dictionary in 2009, eventually reaching other internet image-sharing sites such as Imgur and Facebook. In the following months, Ramirez's drawing quickly gained traction on 4chan as the universal emoticon of an internet troll and a versatile rage comic character. Ramirez posted the image to the imageboard website 4chan and other users began to share it. The image was published on Ramirez's DeviantArt page, "Whynne", as part of a rage comic titled Trolls, about the pointless nature of trolling. Trollface was drawn in Microsoft Paint on September 19, 2008, by Carlos Ramirez, an 18-year-old Oakland college student. It is one of the oldest and most widely known rage comic faces. Trollface or Troll Face is a rage comic meme image of a character wearing a mischievous smile, used to symbolise internet trolls and trolling.
