Four-pane rage comics got popular through 4chan, an image board website, in 2008. Tambrahm Rage is definitely not the first of its kind. “I recruited my mother, who is orthodox but still open minded enough to laugh at these, to review each of the strips and see if any are potentially offensive,” he explains. With the strips revolving so closely around such sensitive issues, the chances that Krish and other illustrators receive hate mail are high. As far as ideas are concerned, everyone is on their own,” says Jayanth. But the similarity pretty much ends there. Both the rage comics have a large number of common readers as well, which helps. Gult rage can be considered an offshoot of Tambrahm Rage as far as the format is concerned. “Tambrahm Rage brought the rage meme to India in a big way. The Gult Rage, started by Jayanth Tadinada, an IIT student, takes digs at the Teluguspeaking community, the Amit Rage at experiences of North Indians who have moved down South, among many others. Tambrahm Rage not only provides a reason for Tamil Brahmins world over to laugh at inside jokes, but it has also been an inspiration to many other such rage comic portals. I believe all the rage comics there, are personal experiences which most people can relate to,” states Narasimhan G, a software engineer, who has also contributed strips to the website. “They are based on my personal experiences. This is when you might begin to wonder as to how much reality there is to the comics. One lives the life of a teenager in a Tambrahm home through these comics, understanding the obsession over saving used plastic wrappers for future emergencies, the pressure of having to score nothing but a centum in math exams, having nothing to drink but rasna on hot summer afternoons, not being able to eat mushrooms ever because the ‘fother’ (Brahmin for father!) likes to think of them as ‘dog umbrellas’.Īs you scroll through the website, giggling uncontrollably throughout, you will notice the incredible amount of detailing that each strip contains. I chose pictures over words because pictures tend to be processed by a more tolerant and open minded part of the brain,” he says.
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