reee

Indicating extreme anger or distress.

Interjection

  1. Indicating extreme anger or distress.
    • "REEEE shut it down! The normies know!" said one poster, for another. "FUCKING NORMIES STOP WRITING ARTICLES ABOUT MY BOARD REEEEEEEEEEEEE," screamed another. "Every time a big news story links back to 4chan, a board is...
    • "Reeeeeeee" ¶ This is the alt-right's battle cry — another broader 4chan meme subsumed into the movement. One redditor describes it as "something of 'warcry' for socially maladapted people." And because it originated on...
    • "Why did we make a game about Pepe? We saw some memes featuring Pepe screaming 'REEEEE' and something just 'clicked,'" a developer for Spirit Realm Games told us in an email. "We thought it was a silly and funny idea to...

Origin

From the sound made by certain species of frogs to ward off predators, combined with the Pepe the Frog and "autistic screeching" memes. According to Know Your Meme, first attested in a 4chan post published December 27, 2014.