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 photos. András Arató, AKA Hide the Pain ...

András Arató AKA ‘Hide the pain Harold ... meme. It was a shocking experience. I wanted to stop it and erase all my pictures, but I realized that this wasn’t possible.” Then 67 years old ...

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 sense of ennui and existential ...

András Arató, a Hungarian lighting engineer and a stock photo model famous online as a hero of “Hide the Pain Harold” meme, arrived in Moscow on May 23. He posted a photo on his VK page but ...

who in 2008 and 2009 posed as a model for stock photographs. Those images of a grey-bearded man wearing a smile but with sad, pained eyes became an internet meme dubbed “Hide the Pain Harold ...

Behind every meme ... tracked down “Harold”—a retired electrical engineer from Hungary named András Arató—to get the full story behind those stock photos of a man drinking coffee ...