I was Hospital Director, I was a Grampa, this and that. And then I found a page, where they fabricated meme from me. The joy he showed when he got on in the race was set in many funny situations.

The craziness only escalated after this. Amazing what happened after that. In two days I had more than 20k followers on FB.

Not on FB, on its Russian version. What says the wife all to this? They created Hide the pain Harold. You had to smirk like this for long seconds I saw myself, that this is not my own natural face and people explained I am hiding some inner pain.

His photos almost have their own life on the internet but he also has favorites. They mounted my face where the US presidents are carved in rocks.

During the takes, he posted something on his Russian fan page, saying good day without a photo. It was liked by people within an hour. After a day it bellied up to Now he accepted, that he unwillingly became a world star at age You can not drop out now, you have to take responsibility.

Don't let your memes be dreams" shown below. Within 48 hours, the post gained over 16, likes. In the coming days, articles about the video were published by BoingBoing [14] and Manchester Evening News.

In the talk, Arato discusses the story of his life as a "meme-hero," as well as his career as an electrical engineer in Ukraine.

His story begins with a vacation in Turkey, where a photograph of him was taken. After uploading the photograph to Facebook, a professional photographer contacted Arato regarding modeling, inviting him to a trial shooting.

Both were happy with the results and continue to work together, resulting in a "couple hundred" stock photographs.

Several months later, Arato began finding the photographs used in a variety of other contexts, outside of the stock photographs he agreed to.

While he considered taking action, he says, Arato decided there was not much he could do. There was "no solution--only a temporary solution.

In the remainder of the speech, Arato discusses how he began to accept his meme celebrity and his embracing of the notoriety, establishing a homepage for the photographs.

On June 25th, , the presentation was uploaded to YouTube. The post received more than , views in three days shown below. In the interview, he shared his backstory alongside detailed information about how the stock photos became memes and how he ultimately learned to embrace the persona of "Hide the Pain Harold.

View All Videos. View All Images. This face seems quite familiar, I think i've seen it somewhere else, now where have I seen that before?

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No thanks, take me back to the meme zone! Like us on Facebook! Origin The earliest known archived thread, where Harold first got attention, can be found on Facepunch, dating back to View All Related Entries.

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