Epic fail guy
From Encyclopedia Dramatica
The Epic Fail Guy is a meme in which Anonymous will draw images of a stick figure and imageboard roleplay this character going about various methods of failing completely. This minor forced meme grew into a true meme of epic proportions when in one adventure he pulled a Guy Fawkes mask out of a bin. This image of a stickfigure wearing a mask much like in V for Vendetta became a meme and from then on most depictions of EFG will involve this mask. From then on, the original artist quit and let the faggotry run rampant. That fucking mask is fucking clownshoes. As a direct result of this, most alleged EFG threads are just people posting the same goddamned picture of EFG witht he mask standing there, doing absolutely fucking nothing except failing in a very non-epic way.
Guy Fawkes was an English Catholic terrorist who tried to destroy the Anglican establishment by blowing up the English parliament in London the only person to ever enter Parliament with honest intentions.
Guy, the epic failure, was pwned before he could enact the Gunpowder Plot because King James utilized an early form of the secret service to stop the plan. Thus Guy became an Epic Fail that would be remembered for at least 100 years.
In threads that the OP or a majority of posters are undergoing complete and total failure, posting a picture of EFG is considered enough to tell Anonymous that he is failing the interbutts.
As Epic Fail Guy is a simple stick figure, many others have posted their own tales of fail using this character. Threads involving these stories usually turn into a complete mess as people post random EFG images in there and argue about whether the OP is the original EFG artist. These threads are best described as an epic failure.
Epic Fail Guy also has a son since a couple of months, Epic fail kid, already showing potential in becoming a mass failure just like his dad.
In June 2008, an Epic Fail Guy appeared who seemly isn't the original artist, but seems to bear traits from him. People argue whether this is really is the real EFG in disguise.
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[edit] Philosophy
In philosophical terms, Epic Fail Guy (EFG, hereafter) represents the stage beyond the synthetic Existentialist/Tiplerian Omega; that is, he transcends and defines a new, Reimann-like space such that, for every instance of failure f, f(inf) --> efg!WIN. This can be presented in a number of ways using both symbolic logic and/or traditional didactic philosophy. An example of the latter in Hegelian dialectical terms would be 1. Thesis --> 2. Antithesis --> 3. Synthesis < EFG. Or, as one young cosplayer/philosopher at an anime con put it, "Epic Fail Guy is that guy who fails so hard he wins." Ex ore infantium et lactantium! (Ps. 8:2)
In philosophical terms, EFG is enormously impactful, on par with the development of transfinite number theory in mathematics. This is more than mere pomo textual tweaking: by taking Failure qua Faliure beyond a fascinating philosophical Ultimate, Epic Fail Guy allows the qualiate to transcend failure itself, thus defining/creating a new existential level in which qualium FAIL and qualium WIN are co-existent and congruent. Broadly speaking, EFG allows/creates a philosophic pathway between the "yucky" two-valued dialectic and a post-dialectical, ontological state where Win and Fail become, in a sense, a "delicious cake" — in other words, functions of one another rather than opposites. QED
TL;DR: Massive Lulz Ensue
[edit] Gallery of Fail
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[edit] EFG on YouTube
[edit] EFG Thread Archive
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[edit] See Also
- Sagefag
- FAILCHAN
- Reverend Jacob K. Reist
- Pigslop
- theredskull
- HellionExciter
- TheQuestionMarkMan
- Failcube
- NZFG
- Epic win guy
[edit] External links
- EFG wordpress site - because EFG decided to invade Wordpress for lulz
- If Guy Fawkes Had Succeeded... an interesting proposition.
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