“Hide the Pain Harold represents ... The man behind the meme is András Arató, a retired engineer from Hungary whose rise to fame began with a random shoot for a stock photo website.

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 ...

or maybe appropriately detailing Harold’s life as a stock photography model. For András’ part, he first realized he was a meme after reverse image searching himself, and quickly decided to ...

A Montreal tights brand hired the man ... 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." ...

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 ...

Meme-famous “Harold” is actually a Hungarian man named Andras Arato. Mr Arato recently appeared in several interviews where he said he posed for the stock photos some time ago and it took nine ...

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 ...

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 ...