Poorfag

Poorfag or Poorfag-chan is a character inspired by the anime Puella Magi Madoka Magica.

On January 28th, in a discussion topic on 4chan’s website about the fourth episode of the series, one anonymous user noticed that during a clip showing Madoka’s class, everyone in the classroom had laptop computers except for one girl.

The first reply to this post was, “Fucking poorfag writing on paper.” Which led to a huge discussion of the character and thus Poorfag-chan was born. The same day, her macro was created. Despite her being a character seen only in the background of a few episodes and frequently being left out of artbooks, Poorfag-chan gained her own popularity as a character.

There’s a lot of various theories, stories, comics, and fanworks crafted around Poorfag-chan. She is generally depicted as an innocent character who makes the best of her circumstances. A lot of Poorfag-chan threads also depict her as an orphan with her often telling stories to her mother in heaven. Another popular claim is that she lives in a cardboard box and were she to become a Puella Magi and later on a witch, her outfit would consist mostly of garbage.

Though this was originally a trend that started on 4chan, it also gained the attention of Japanese fans who call her call her 貧乏ちゃん (binbō-chan, translated as poor-chan).

Poorfags gonna poor.

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Failurefag

Failurefag is a character inspired by the anime Puella Magi Madoka Magica.

Another character who has similar origins as Poorfag-chan is Failurefag who is a student sitting infront of Madoka and clearly asleep during class. Though considered initially funny and thus spawning his own macro of “Failurefag’s gonna fail”, he did not gain nearly as much popularity as Poorfag-chan.

Failurefag gonna fail this class.

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