Harold's pain-hiding name. Harold, hiding pain, bottling beer in Budapest, and this is possibly the best meme he has ever seen
To save money, advertisers often use stock photos. Every day, hundreds of photographs of girls munching salads, successful men in ties and joyful children holding hands flash before our eyes. Although the names of almost all the models are unknown, since before the shooting they sign an agreement on non-disclosure of their data and contacts, these faces have become almost dear to us. Look At Me remembered the main stars of photo stocks.
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Jennifer Anderson aka The Everywhere Girl (Omnipresent girl) is a mid-90s model from Portland who became a pioneer among stock models. You may not recognize her face, but this young "college student" (who never studied in it in real life) has repeatedly become the face of brands such as Dell, BBC, HP, Visa and Microsoft. The actress and model took part in the filming in 1996, and over the past 20 years these photos have spread, perhaps, in all free photo stocks and leaked in materials of a wide variety of content, from Christian literature to the websites of the Canadian government and the US Navy. Now the "Omnipresent Girl" has her own and maintains a blog, and her many fans find her photos in the most unexpected places.
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Smiling boy who clenches his fists enthusiastically and throws his hands up, looking at the laptop screen, became famous thanks to a series of macros with the advice of an inexperienced and naive Internet user. The meme, known as First Day Internet Kid, owes to the "Boy Spending Time with Laptop" series of photos available on Shutterstock, Dreamstrime and ISTOCKPHOTO. Pictures of the unknown child were published in 2008 by Polish photographer Piotr Rzeszutek, and in December 2011, the first macros from his photo appeared on the r / AdviceAnimals subreddit. The peak in popularity of the meme, according to queries in Google, fell on 2012-2013. First Day Internet Kid has become one of the ways to portray a neophyte on imageboards and a user who has become a victim of trolling.
Harold hiding pain
Hide the pain harold ("Harold hiding the pain") or just Harold (alternate name Mauris) is an elderly man in a series of stock photos who became famous for his unusual smile. She is so strained that it seems as if he is hiding discomfort or pain. For the first time, interest in the series of photos with Harold appeared in 2011 on the Facepunch forum, where user Greenen72 posted pictures from the popular DreamsTime photo stock, in which these sets have high ratings. In October 2011, "Harold hiding the pain" received his own Facebook page, and in May 2014, Harold was dedicated to a large post on 4chan, where anonymous authors described the whole difficult (albeit fictional) life of an unhappy character. The story, translated into different languages, roams the Internet in the form of a gallery with signed photographs.
Mister businessman
In stock photo stocks, many models portray businessmen, but two characters stand out in particular, who can be found in very different images: a broker, a CEO, a diplomat. They are found on the websites of Spanish courses, website building services, or marketing agencies. Unnamed gray-haired men with fake smiles who are supposed to radiate trust, reliability and success have become symbols of cowardly companies that hide their true colors. Models have also found fame as heroes of memes and macros.
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Hungarian Andras Arato, better known as "Harold hiding the pain", became the face of an advertising campaign for the Russian shopping and entertainment center "Planet". With a trademark expression (pain through a smile), he played the role of a sales assistant, standing against the backdrop of empty counters and mannequins in a clothing store. At the end of the video, it turns out that the season of big discounts has begun in the shopping center and everything was quickly sold out. “We are hurt by these discounts,” says the voiceover. Filming took place at the end of May, during his visit to Moscow. Photos and Instagram stories with him appeared in the account of the advertising agency TutkovBudkov, which shot the commercial.
Andras Arato. Photo: Shutterstock.com
What is he known for?
Now on the Internet you can see many memes with photographs of the Hungarian, who became famous after the repeated use of pictures with him from photo stocks. Massively, Arato's photographs appeared on the dreamstime resource, where they tried to make them a symbol of the rich and interesting life of people in old age. The reason for Harold's popularity on the Internet lies in the expression on his face: his smile looks taut, and his eyes show pain, bitterness and regret. At first, Arato was insulted and upset by memes with his photos, but then he came to terms with a specific fame. Arato claims that his "meme career" began in Russia, with a Russian guy who found him on a stock on the Internet. He sent the future celebrity an email. “I didn't even answer the first one,” says Arato. - But he sent more and more, and finally I gave up. He asked to show himself, his real life, because many Russians did not even realize that I was a real person. Then my popularity spread to other countries. But it all started in Russia, so I think they treat me in a special way here. "
What does Andrash do in life?
Arato is an electrical engineer by profession. But now he works as a tour guide in Budapest, arranges meetings with fans, travels and starred in commercials. Advertising of shopping and entertainment centers in Russia is Arato's second advertising collaboration in life. The first was in Hungary: a series of three commercials in 2017. Harold can no longer manage his own social networks. There is a small team that helps him fill the pages with content.
Arato is a well-known football fan; he also came to the World Cup in Russia. The Hungarian posted the video on his VKontakte page and said that he would be a consolation for the losing teams, because who, if not him, will help the players and fans survive the pain of defeat. After the opening match, in which Russia defeated Saudi Arabia 5-0, the grandfather praised the hosts for their strong play and joked that it was time for Saudi Arabia to hide the pain. Any exit of Arato to the street is accompanied by numerous selfies with everyone. “I seem to be famous as a football star,” Arato writes about himself.
Arato Andras, known on the Internet as Harold (or Morris), the Pain Concealer, entertained guests of one of the bars in the Hungarian capital and posted a photo from there on Facebook. He is also a retired engineer, leads excursions in Budapest, enjoys his fame, does not hide any pain and conducts creative evenings for fans.
Almost everyone who has been on the Internet more than once knows these painful eyes and a painful smile. This is Harold, the Hiding Pain, aka Morris, aka Grandfather Harold, aka Hide The Pain Harold, one of the ancient, but still popular memes.
Harold was born in 2011 on the Facepunch forum, where they posted an entire photo shoot with him, and has not left the screens since then. He is loved in VK.
He is loved in Odnoklassniki.
He is known in the West.
And he knows a lot not only about physical, but also about mental pain.
"Oh shit. I hope they didn't see it. "
If you know the memes with Harold, then you can guess that on the screen of his laptop - porn with horses.
The man is especially popular in Russia, where he is used not only on boards to create new memes, but also for advertising, quite serious purposes. Especially often they get it from photobanks to advertise medical services.
And financial products for retirees.
That is, in areas where pain is not just a word.
In fact, Harold is played by a Hungarian pensioner named Arato Artash. He is an engineer, lives in Budapest, fully aware of his fame and treats it with irony. Arato knows a little Russian and in 2015 even got himself a page on VK. In this regard, TJournal took a comment from him.
Arato is 72 years old and continues to live an active life. How active can be judged by his facebook... It was there that he posted a photo of a bar in Budapest where he worked at the counter last week pouring beer.
The trademark smile and pain have not gone anywhere, everything is in place. This immediately spawned suitable jokes on the Internet. For example, on Pikabu.
Medialeaks also had a hand.
Arato Andras earns money by leading excursions around Budapest. He is a popular person, and there is no end to those who wish. Moreover, Harold, Pain Concealment, spends his own creative evenings, collecting fans.
Arato Andras, a 73-year-old resident of Hungary, visited Moscow, which caused a huge stir among the residents of the capital. The man at one time became famous as the hero of the meme about "Harold, who hides the pain" - society has been wondering for several years what about the health of a man who smiles so unnaturally.
Harold's eyes are really always sad, and therefore the smile on his face looks like a tortured one. The man's face was noticed by users in one of the advertising campaigns for retirees, after which it became the real face of the Web. Society learned a lot about Harold only after, when he started his own pages on social networks.
Arato also reported on the web that he had been to Moscow. He visited Red Square, the mausoleum and St. Basil's Cathedral. The man had a great walk around the Russian capital and took pictures with local graduates - he did not tell his fans about the purpose of the trip.
Harold hiding pain - what is known about him
The man's face, as mentioned above, was first used to advertise goods and services for retirees. The smiling pensioner from photo banks, symbolizing a successful, full-fledged old age, quickly fell in love with the inhabitants of the Internet with his unnatural, strained smile.
Netizens first used photos as a joke in 2011, but the man's popularity peaked in 2014. It was then that Arato was nicknamed Harold, who hides the pain. The meme quickly spread on social networks like Zhdun and Nadonyshka. Users adorned the face of an old man with stretched emotions and all sorts of funny phrases like "When your girlfriend said she wanted to spend more time together."
On March 3, 2016, Harold announced himself. He started a personal page on VKontakte, from which everyone learned that the man was from Hungary, and his name was András Arató.
As it became known, Andrash was born in 1945 and is a fairly well-known personality in his country. After graduating from the Technical University of Budapest in 1969, he began his career at the Electrical Testing Institute, soon moved into the lighting industry and made a career as CTO of a small light bulb firm. In addition, Arato taught electrical engineering to students.
The pensioner leads a completely healthy and normal life. At 73, he continues to work, visit the pool and actively communicate on the Web. After fame, nothing unusual happened in his life - in particular, he did not become richer, the man admits.
All photos with Harold speak for themselves, the portal site reports. In the pictures, the man smiles, but his smile is strained, and it seems that he is not happy at all. Memes with Harold convey similar emotions - when a person has to pretend to be joyful, although in reality he is sad and in pain.
Once a ridiculous story even spread on the network that Harold had allegedly died. So, Internet detectives allegedly found the old man's house and it turned out to be empty. Then they attacked the trail of his relatives, who told the sentimental story of his life.
"Harold" was fond of drugs from his youth and for a long time he managed to hide it from his relatives. When the family's financial situation suddenly deteriorated, the truth was revealed - and the wife and two children tried to fight the man's addiction, but it was all in vain.
In one of the scandals, the old man's wife died of a heart attack and after that he simply stopped talking. The son tried to see the man for psychoanalysts, but nothing helped - the speech disappeared, and a confused expression remained on his face.
One day, a man working as an advertising photographer asked his father to pose for a photo for an advertisement for a bank that was launching a special retirement program. The father agreed, but it was not possible to make his face happy. But on that day, a miracle happened - the granddaughter who came to the shooting suddenly moved the grandfather and he began to speak, because the girl was very similar to his wife.
As a result, the son of "Harold" spread on the Web a request that his father be left alone - let them do whatever they want with the photos, only the users should not touch the family, because some madmen often called the man and wheezed into the receiver "Harold, smile "And the like.