![Sweating Towel Guy Sweating Towel Guy](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/square/000/013/306/2dd.jpg)
Sweating Towel Guy
About
Sweating Towel Guy is an exploitable illustration of a man wiping his sweating forehead with a towel which is often used in "my face when" stories (MFW) on 4chan.
Origin
The image was initially used in health articles about excessive sweating.[2] On September 30th, 2011, the illustration was posted in a thread on the /v/ (video games) board on 4chan[1], in which an anonymous user told a green text story using the sweating man drawing (shown below). In the post, the sweating towel guy is meant to represent the feeling of anxiety felt by a guy awkwardly trying to leave a Gamestop store.
![Gamestop stories Anonymous 09/30/11(Fri)03:25 No.111901279 File1317367506.ipg-(22 KB, 240x311, 1315249566874.jpg) >On my way out of Gamestop >Girl my age is approaching the door from the outside at the same time Immediately change directions and stiffly walk to the closest display I could find >Pretend to look at the display until she enters the store and completely passes me >Speed walk the f--- out Mfw I finally made it to the car](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/564/779/635.png)
Spread
On May 11th, 2012, the website Meanwhile On Fit[3] posted a series of "fat people stories," one of which featured the sweating towel guy image (shown below).
![f9c.png >at the cinema watching The Sessions with date >2 fat bitches sit beside me eat snacks through the entirety of the movie >go through several candy bars and bags of sweets one of them keeps audibly farting can't smell it thank f--- >date doesn't seem to notice](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/564/802/f9c.png)
On September 24th, FunnyJunk[4] user ianosity posted the image alongside an MFW comment about using Wikipedia to write a book report at the last minute. On January 23rd, 2013, NeoGAF[5] member Dresden posted a photoshopped version of the sweating man (shown below, left). On June 15th, an anonymous 4chan[6] user posted an edited version of the picture resembling a character from the 2011 action role-playing game Dark Souls (shown below, right) to the /tg (traditional games) board.
![fbf.png](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/564/808/fbf.png)
![b14.jpg](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/564/809/b14.jpg)
Notable Examples
![266.jpeg](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/565/687/266.jpeg)
![d5a.jpg ㄟ](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/565/641/d5a.jpg)
![Sweating towel gal](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/565/400/202.jpg)
![Sweating Duke Nukem](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/565/398/d74.png)
![5ed.png 1 EQUIUS: D Sorry, my heart is galloping and I canter nunciate properly](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/564/803/5ed.png)
![Sweating](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/565/399/9c0.jpg)
Search Interest
Not available
External References
[1] ChanArchive – go to gamestop (redirect)
[2] Google – excessive sweating
[3] Meanwhile on Fit – Fat people stories (page deleted)
[4] FunnyJunk – Mfw wikipedia bailed me out
[5] NeoGAF – Wow gaming side scared to death
Top Comments
Tiny_Robin
Jun 22, 2013 at 05:57PM EDT
Quite The Gentleman
Jun 22, 2013 at 09:02PM EDT