Anime Girl Punching Wall

About

Anime Girl Punching Wall is an exploitable image macro of an anime girl punching a wall as she sits at a laptop with a shadow over her face suggesting disappointment, despair or anger. Since the image's origin as fan art in 2010, it has been used to express feelings of frustration, usually in the context of being online.

Origin

The image was originally created by Pixiv ^[1] user 小国拓弥 (Takuya Oguni, also known as samuraichamp), who posted the image on November 15th, 2010, with the title くそっ…壁殴っちまった… ("Crap…I hit the wall…"). The image features Ui Hirasawa from K-On! punching the wall, with a body pillow of her elder sister Yui Hirasawa visible in the background.

The earliest documented use of the image as a meme was on April 1st, 2013, when a demotivational poster (seen below) using the image was uploaded to 9GAG.^[2] As of 2021, the image has over 37,000 upvotes.

Spread

The image continued to spread as a meme format in the following years, seeing a notable rise in use around 2020 and 2021. On October 7th, 2020, an example of the meme about remote classes (shown below) was uploaded by Redditor achilles-_-23 to /r/memes.^[3] The image received over 139,000 upvotes in six months and became the subreddit's top post for the day.

On January 1st, 2021, an example of the meme about YouTube (seen below) was uploaded by Redditor Viditsinh_Vala to /r/mildlyinfuriating.^[4] The image received over 21,000 upvotes in a week before it was removed.

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