About
Closing the Curtains is a multi-panel exploitable comic series featuring an overweight man who closes his curtains to prevent being distracted from his computer. The character is often depicted as an anti-social example of the neckbeard stereotype.
Origin
On November 27th, 2005, Something Awful user CrumFUNist submitted a thread titled “Lego_Robot sucks ass,”[9] which criticized forum user Lego_Robot (webcomic artist Bob Averill) for creating poor MSPaint comics and trolling the forums. Over the next two years, the thread gained over 1,500 responses. In May 2007, Averill posted a comic titled “This one’s not funny” on the website Lego Robot Comics (now named PlasticBrickAutomaton),[1] which depicts an overweight Something Awful user mocking Lego_Robot in a discussion thread before closing his window when distracted by two women playing volleyball outside (shown below).[11]
Spread
In September 2007, Averill was banned from the Something Awful Forums.[8] On November 15th, a cropped version of the original comic reduced to the final three panels was uploaded to the “kuvia” folder on the domain MBnet (shown below).[3]
Various Examples
External References
[1]plasticBrickautomation – This one’s not funny
[2]Something Awful – Lego_Robot sucks ass.
[3]Index of /tdog/kuvia – See fatass.gif
[4]Pakkotoisto.com – Ketju: Repesin eli Hauskoja kuvia netistä!
[5]Lachschon.de – Atomwitz, alle Strahlen
[6]forocoches.com – Raco Català, ¿por qué le tenéis tanta manía?
[7]Encyclopedia Dramatica – Lego Robot Comics
[8]Something Awful – Lego Robot
[9]Something Awful – Lego_Robot Sucks ass
[10]Wayback Machine – This ones not funny
[11]Mike-Miles – Lego Robot original upload