Like many memes of the early aughts, “Harold” became popular on 4chan before the wider internet discovered him. In 2014, an anonymous 4chan user narrated the story of Hide the Pain Harold ...

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.

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.

It looks like “Harold” isn’t going away, especially if Arató happily agrees to keep acting out the character. Earlier this year, he appeared in a music video for Cloud 9+ and a video about ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 'Hide the Pain Harold' meme model has no pain to hide. I caught up with the man behind the reaction GIF to find out what it's like to live forever as a meme ...

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 ...