Hide the Pain Harold’s new autumn ‘stock photos’ perfectly capture your dark day blues Embrace the darkness with a pain-surpressed smile November 11, 2021 - 1:47 pm ...

By the fall of 2014, an Imgur user posted a large compilation of Hide the Pain Harold images and their accompanying captions, which gained 880,000 views in three weeks.

He found the photos, but he also found the burgeoning Hide the Pain Harold meme. “At first, I was surprised and did not like the idea of my photos being used for memes,” Arató told the Daily Dot.

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 ...

Harold found online fame as the 'Hide the Pain' guy from memes and now he's ... But then around 2011 his life changed forever when he starred in a selection of stock photos where he looked in a ...

Then again, perhaps there’s only so much money to be made from memes. “Our top-selling images get more than 5,000 to 6,000 sales a year, while the meme photo is sold around 700 times a year ...

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." At first, the Hungarian ...

András Arató (aka Hide The Pain Harold) was born in 1945 in Hungary. He worked as an electrical lighting engineer and university lecturer in Budapest, and is married with one son, who is an ...