Distracted boyfriend, American Chopper yelling scene, Pepe the Frog, woman yelling at a cat — all memorable memes. But which one of those is the meme of the decade? It’s a hotly contested topic, ...

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The days are getting shorter, the weather is worsening, and people’s mood is souring. ‘Tis the season… yay. Fortunately, there’s a solution to our collective predicament: make memes to mask the pain, ...

A stock photoshoot led to one of the biggest memes on the internet and changed one man's life forever. What would you do if you unexpectedly found internet fame in your 70s? It happened to András ...

STOCKHOLM — A health authority in Sweden unwittingly used ‘Hide the Pain Harold’ – one of the internet’s most-recognized figures – as the face of its COVID-19 vaccination booking website, officials ...

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András Arató, a Hungarian lighting engineer and a stock photo model famous online as a hero of “Hide the Pain Harold” meme, arrived in Moscow on May 23. He posted a photo on his VK page but didn’t ...

When András Arató modelled for stock photos a few years ago, he had no idea he'd become a meme — never mind an international household name as "Hide the Pain Harold." At first, the Hungarian native ...

"Harold" briefly fronted the website where Stockholm city residents can book their COVID-19 vaccines after the city used a stock photo of Arato from a photo agency database. A health authority in ...