András Arató, also known as Hide the Pain Harold, was a lighting technician in Budapest before a stock image of him went viral. And he's finally embracing his internet fame.

It's a hotly contested topic, that's for sure. But according to image sharing platform Imgur, the most impactful meme of the decade is Hide the Pain Harold.

"People online thought my smile, combined with the look in my eyes, seemed terribly sad. They were calling me “Hide the Pain Harold”." Andras Arato has recently embraced his popularity as a meme.

András Arató, known on the internet as “Hide the Pain Harold,” is now using his meme persona to sell tech products. In a commercial for the German retail site Otto, Arató plays Harold, the ...

Embrace the darkness with a pain-surpressed smile November 11, 2021 - 1:47 pm. Image by: Tari-Székely Karola ... opening up new artistic dimensions in the world of Hide the Pain Harold memes.

Maintaining the same calm, smiling presence that made his “Harold” photo such a success, Arató explains, though, that he was able to come to terms with his meme status and capitalize on it in ...

Harold L. "Smiling Bud" Coffee (1898--1921) graduated from Oakland Technical High School before enlisting in the US Army Aviation Section, Signal Corps in 1917. Coffee served stateside during World ...

In the early 2010s, Harold’s stock pictures (often of him sitting in front of a laptop holding up a cup of coffee) took off as one of the most recognizable internet memes, becoming an entire ...

Always smiling while hiding all the pain. A ... Hide The Pain Harold, or simply “Harold,” is a senior stock photography model whose facial ... memes. Top picks for you. TRENDING. follow ...

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." ...

Those images of a grey-bearded man wearing a smile but with sad, pained eyes became an internet meme dubbed “Hide the Pain Harold” as they were shared and reused with new, humorous captions by ...

Unfortunately for those trying to encourage people to take their jabs, the image in question is of a Hungarian man forcing a smile that is known online as the “Hide the Pain Harold” meme ...