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MEMPEDIA — THE MEME ENCYCLOPEDIA · July 26, 2026 · mempedia

Wojak

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Character: WOJAK · Origin year: 2010 · Tier: Iconic

Wojak — the Feels Guy — is the internet's bare face of emotion: a crude, bald MS Paint man whose blank melancholy became the ancestor of an entire taxonomy of online identity. If Pepe is how the internet jokes, Wojak is how it confesses.

Origin

The drawing surfaced on imageboards around 2009–2010, popularized by a poster using the handle “wojak” on German-language boards before migrating to 4chan, where “that feel” and “I know that feel bro” turned a crude sketch into a universal emotional handshake.

Rise

Wojak proved infinitely forkable. From the original sad man grew the entire -oomer dynasty — Doomer, Bloomer, Zoomer, Boomer — plus the grey NPC, crying wojaks, brainlets and soyjaks: a folk psychology rendered in MS Paint, sorting all of humanity into feelings with faces. In crypto, the pink wojak — screaming, liquidated — became the official portrait of every crash, and wojak-posting the primary language of degen pain.

Connections

Wojak's eternal companion is Pepe the Frog: frog and feels guy, the comedy and tragedy masks of the same theater. Every wojak-family fighter in this roster — Doomer, Bloomer, Zoomer, NPC — is his descendant.

In BomberMeme

WOJAK holds genesis skin index 16 and fights as a mythic S+ Wildcard of the Meme arena — FEELS BAD BLAST, sincerity one hundred percent, bombs anyway. His card is one of the rarest in the collection, fitting for the father of all feels. In the meme ecosystem BomberMeme is building on Solana, Wojak is the emotional ledger: every match writes another feel to the chain.

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