In recognition, pretty quickly a number of Facebook groups were created dubbing him “Hide the Pain Harold ... this new meme also spread across Reddit and 4chan. Bad luck?

It was a close race, but we’re proud to announce Imgur’s Meme of the Decade is… Hide the Pain Harold ... You can’t argue with the numbers. The man behind the meme is András ...

András Arató AKA ‘Hide the pain Harold’ in the Vodafone commercial ... in America had picked up his photos, turned them into memes and unleashed them online. “I never wanted to be ...

‘Tis the season… yay. Fortunately, there’s a solution to our collective predicament: make memes to mask the pain, using a piping hot batch of ‘Hide the Pain Harold’ stock photo ...

he is Hide the Pain Harold. Harold, sometimes also known as Maurice, is perhaps the most ubiquitous stock photo meme, his cheeky expression while using a laptop or drinking a coffee belying a ...

The ADL added Pepe the Frog, a once-innocuous 4chan meme, to that list Tuesday afternoon. "Once again, racists and haters have taken a popular Internet meme and twisted it for their own purposes ...

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.

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 ...

Even more unsettling, police say, is how the girls concocted their plan: They allegedly wanted to please an Internet meme known as the Slender Man ... “The bad part of me wanted her to die ...

Behind every meme, there’s a story. Sometimes that story is as straightforward as the meme itself, but, as is the case with the guy who lent his face to the “Hide The Pain, Harold” meme ...