We'll be like Brangelina but you'll hold all the good looks and I'll just be there. I am not a clever man, but one thing I know, Is that if I was gay, I would love you more, but sadly I am not. Have a nice day. That innocuous gesture was photographed and unexpectedly transformed him into the latest internet celebrity: "Ridiculously Photogenic Guy".
The photograph of Mr Little eventually went viral, inspired a hugely popular Facebook fan page , Twitter followers, parody photos and more than one million views of the original photograph. The year-old New Yorker, who goes by his middle name Watkins, said the whole thing was a fluke.
I was running and waving at a friend that was on the sidelines and I turned around and I guess I caught a camera lens," Mr Little told Good Morning America overnight. According to an interview with King published by Charleston City Paper [7] , King posted it to Flickr around lunchtime and within an hour, it had reached , views.
Shortly after the post hit the front page, a facebomb version of the photo was posted by Redditor chehov. The following day, the tech news blog Mashable [3] published a post titled "New Meme Alert: 'Ridiculously Photogenic Guy'" which included an image of Zeddie Little's face photoshopped into a picture with comedian Tina Fey.
Several hours later, MSN [6] posted about the series of advice animal memes inspired by the photo. As of April 4th, , the Quickmeme [2] page has accumulated over 1, submissions and a Facebook page for "Mr Ridiculously Photogenic Guy" has received over 25 likes.
The day after the image was posted to Reddit, the man in the photo was identified as year-old New York resident Zeddie Little by the Charleston City Paper.
In the following days, social media accounts purporting to be Zeddie Little were created including a "Zeddie Little" Facebook [15] page, and the TheZeddieLittle [13] Twitter account. The tweet has since been removed and the authenticity of the Twitter account remains in question. On April 9th, the IBITimes [12] posted a follow-up article featuring posts from a Zeddie Little Tumblr [14] blog which provided answers to questions asked by Little's fans.
The blogger also claimed that Little had been recognized in public already and that he found out about the meme from a friend. The Ridiculously Photogenic Guy has been compared to the character Barney Stinson from the TV sitcom series How I Met Your Mother , in which he is always portrayed as a photogenic ladykiller unable to take a bad picture:.
But these are all kinda, for the most part, positive. It's funny that everybody is kinda taking like to it. It's, I guess, the most flattering way to get spread across the Internet. The series inspired other image macro series on Quickmeme. The "Tries Really Hard Girl" [20] Quickmeme page features a cropped image of a runner from the original Zeddie Little photo with captions describing Zeddie Little stealing the spotlight shown below, far left.
There are a number of "ridiculously photogenic" animal equivalents as well, most notably the "Ridiculously Photogenic Puppy" [22] shown below, center and The "Ridiculously Photogenic Horse.
In the thread, the original poster OP asked other Redditors to entertain her while she was recovering from a lung surgery to treat her chronic pneumonia at the Cleveland Clinic. The thread was well received by others in the community, generating a lively round of questions and answers that led on to more than comments. Almost a week later on May 23rd, the OP posted a follow-up thread with the news of her discharge from the hospital as well as a heartwarming story of how she was visited by another Redditor helpmeimbored shown above, far right who read her post while staying nearby the hotel.
Meanwhile, many others complimented the OP with praises about her good look despite undergoing an intensive surgery. Will King, who took the original photo and has been in touch with Zeddie since , also seems skeptical of the social media sites. He says he's trying to lay low.
He doesn't want the attention," Will told Live 5 News. On the other hand, Zeddie's alleged Facebook fan page has another photo from the now famous race, which suggests Zeddie or somebody close to him had a hand in its creation. So we just might have ourselves a ridiculously complicated mystery.
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