In our course books, we drew on János Arany’s (famous Hungarian poet) picture and made him a pirate. “When we were in school, we used to make memes.
In fact, he admitted that even he himself created memes when he was younger. Even I see that it is not my true, natural face.”Īt first, András was not happy about the memes people created. “I had to smile for a long period of time. Even though he is smiling, he does not seem happy at all.Įven András acknowledges that his smile seems a little bit forced on the photos. The essence of the hide the pain Harold memes is that András’s smile does not seem so genuine in the stock photos, and the joke is that he looks like he is trying to hide some serious pain behind his smile. I was not quite happy about that.” Hide the pain Harold Then, I found a website where people made memes out of my photos.
Somewhere I was a doctor, in another place I was a grandpa. Of course, I found many pages where my photos were used “in a normal way”, what they were meant for. I tried to see what my face was used for, so I searched for it. Later, however, he was too curious not to look at what his photos were used for. Some people on the internet, however, decided to get creative with András’s photos.Īndrás finished the photo shoot and probably forgot about it for a while. Stock photos are collected and stored in a huge database, and the customer can order them as illustrations for various graphic designs, web pages, etc.
The photographer asked him to be a model for a series of stock photos. The photo was taken of András when he was on holiday in Turkey.Ī photographer noticed the picture and immediately contacted András. András’s meme career started years ago when he posted a photo of himself on the then-popular Hungarian social media site: Iwiw. The video can be watched in Hungarian here. TV2 made a report with András in his home in Budapest. A post shared by Harold did a regular 70-year-old man become an internet sensation?