“The worst person you know”
have you ever wondered who hides behind from that meme you always use to say you’re stressed out? Where do you live? What’s your name? What does it work? Do you have children? He’s married?
Because, even if it may not seem like it, the protagonists of the memes they are normal people that one day, without knowing how and why, they conquer Internet users, their image begins to spread like wildfire through WhatsApp chats until they become authentic icons of the digital language.
This is what happened to José María García, who lives in Barcelonain Spain, and who, to do his brother-in-law a favor, saw how his image became a meme after a satirical page in the United States used his photo to illustrate an article titled “the worst person you know“.
When in the United States they mean this some don’t like them via WhatsApp, they use their face. So difficult and real at the same time.
4,860,000,000 searches on Google
It all started in 2014, when her brother-in-law asked her to pose for him to be able to prepare a photo shoot with a writer at the Turó Park in Barcelona.
The model was so good that the photographer asked for permission to upload his image to the catalog Getty -an American photographic agency-, where, years later, in 2018, he is the editor of Clickhole satirical page he found it and decided to use it to illustrate his article, and from there the image started to go viral.
The article that started it all.
It was during his imprisonment when his brother-in-law warned José María García that his image it was associated with the phrase “the worst person you know”.
The meme had millions of Google searches that were multiplied by social networks. In particular, the title of the article has 4,860,000,000 results.
“I wrote it on Google, on my player’s screen, hit it and, pam, I walked out, went down with the scroll and my face, my face, my face. I thought: ‘what happens here’ “, he said Village.
“it was paranoiaI got caught, ”Garcia added.
The tycoon’s opinions Elon Musk or American conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro have been answered on more than one occasion with this meme.
Garcia recognized Eph the one at the beginning was overwhelmed by the situation and who received multiple calls from American journalists eager to meet him, even though he thought he might be recognized by a tourist.
“During the pandemic – he recalled -, locked up at home, I was overwhelmed by what was happening“and was shocked by the multitude of messages associated with his face, both positive and negative, although he regrets that we tend to be with him.
“At first you think the world has gone madbut that in your country we are all calm “, he explained.
Now choose to address the topic in a good mood and introduces himself: “Hi, I’m José María García and I’m the worst person you know”, says ironically García, who has decided to make a T-shirt with the phrase in English and its blurred image.
Source: The avant-garde
Source: Clarin
