Overconfident Alcoholic

About

Overconfident Alcoholic (Depression Guy), sometimes seen as “Nuthin’s Funnier”, is an exploitable four pane comic used to convey one’s feeling of dismay after having a moment of epiphany.

Origin

The original comic is an excerpt taken from the opening panel of a short story comic strip illustrated by Jesse Nylund^[2] of Completely Serious Comics^[1] and uploaded on January 9th, 2011. In the scene (shown below, left), the character claims that nothing is funnier than “a monkey in a suit” when another passing person suggests that a baby in a suit in a cigar would be more humorous. Shocked, the character resorts to drinking alone in the depressing final panel. One of the earliest parodies of the comic (shown below, right) was used to critique someone for posting the original pane on FunnyJunk^[3] on June 6th, 2012. The parody urges that original content (OC) is funnier than reposts.

Spread

The comic appeared again with different captions on August 3rd, 2012 on 4chan’s /sp/ (sports) board^[4] and again on FunnyJunk^[5] three days later. That month, additional instances were found on mushrooms enthusiast forum Shroomery^[6], the Dungeons and Dragons forums^[7] and mixed martial arts forum Sherdog.^[8] On September 7th, 2012, an instance comparing the iPhone 4S to the iPhone 5 was posted to We Know Memes^[9], where the series was dubbed “Overconfident Alcoholic Depression Guy.” In September, additional instances were submitted to FunnyJunk^[10] and Memebase.^[11] A Facebook fan page^[12] for the series has been created, but it only has gathered 23 likes as of September 17th, 2012.