rage faces kind of exploded from earlier, more elaborate comics that would get drawn on 4chan. They used to be hand drawn and were popular around 2006, but at a certain point more people wanted in on the game, so they started becoming more simple and made from a limited supply of pre-drawn assets. Maybe that's what you're thinking of.
Wait, was it 2011? I'm pretty sure that meme was from much earlier.
rage faces kind of exploded from earlier, more elaborate comics that would get drawn on 4chan. They used to be hand drawn and were popular around 2006, but at a certain point more people wanted in on the game, so they started becoming more simple and made from a limited supply of pre-drawn assets. Maybe that's what you're thinking of.
either way it was like 20 years ago so who remembers exactly