About

Haha Freak is an exploitable two-panel webcomic and meme format showing a boy in a red shirt pointing and laughing at a goth girl on the top panel and a grown-up version of the same characters years later in the bottom panel, the boy now acting shy looking at the goth girl, who has become attractive to him. The original iteration of the meme was posted to X / Twitter in January 2024 by Spanish artist @HieleraJones, garnering viral spread and inspiring a prominent redraw by artist João Emanoel, which became the subject of further edits over the following months after it was translated to English.

Origin

On January 18th, 2024, X^[1] user and artist @HieleraJones posted a two-panel webcomic that garnered over 350 likes in three months. In the top panel of the comic, a boy in a red shirt is shown pointing and laughing at a goth girl, calling her a freak. In the bottom panel, the same two characters are shown but older. The boy is now nervous around the goth girl, who he has grown attracted to.

Spread

The comic garnered viral spread over the following months, including through a post to the M C C D M D Y C C D H Facebook^[2] page on January 18th, 2024, that gained over 1,600 reactions in the same span of time and an April 1st post to the Unneyplayer Facebook^[3] page that gained over 10,000 reactions in a year.

On May 25th, Facebook^[4] user and artist João Emanoel posted a redraw of the comic featuring a different art style, garnering over 1,400 shares and 1,100 reactions in a year. On July 17th, 9GAG^[5] user chafundifornio posted an English translation of the comic that gained over 11,000 upvotes in nine months.

The translated version of João Emanoel's comic garnered viral spread over the following months, inspiring edits. On July 18th, it was reposted by X^[6] user @Martposting, garnering over 10,000 likes in nine months. On July 21st, X^[7] user @cravedcuddle reposted it, garnering over 239,000 likes in the same span of time.

On July 22nd, 2024, X^[8] user @GTSshrinkyy posted an edit showing the girl to have grown massive over the years, depicted as a giant boot, garnering over 1,500 likes in the same span of time. On July 30th, X^[9] user @betchesugh reposted the original meme, garnering over 111,000 likes in nine months.

On April 5th, 2025, Facebook^[10] page Superhero Fanverse posted an AI-generated version of the meme, garnering over 60,000 reactions and 4,800 shares in two weeks.

On April 14th, X^[11] user @bongftah posted a version based on the Duolingo owl and Lily that garnered over 16,000 likes and 1,000 reposts in a week.

On April 20th, 2025, X^[12] user @stxrinsky posted an AI-generated version of the meme that reimagines it with real people, garnering over 143,000 likes and 3,800 reposts in a day.

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