and other payouts associated with trollface. At the meme’s height, when it was plastered on t-shirts at Hot Topic, Ramirez would pull in between $10,000 and $15,000 every few months. One ...

The meme was also popularized on platforms like Tumblr, Cheezburger, Quickmeme, and Memegenerator. By August 2009, the first Urban Dictionary definition for “trollface” was submitted ...