Legendary Memes: Where Are They Today?

the people in these 10 classic names look completely different to when they first went viral starting with side eye Chloe which came from a 2013 video titled Lily's Disneyland surprise in the video the parents tell their two kids Lily and Chloe that their ditching school to instead go to Disneyland Chloe we're going to Disneyland with the moment then being shared to Tumblr where it received over 2 million notes with the title I just love this because Chloe is like to hell is this girl crying about the post then prompted a buzzfeed article titled side eye and Chloe is officially the patron saint of Tumblr in which they'd show that the meme had expanded and was now being put over everything from album covers to religious figures around four years after the meme first blower Chloe visited the Brazilian Google office where her face had been turned into an elevator and was being used around the city for advertising so we just drive around and there was my child on a billboard I was just blown away but what happened to Chloe after the hype died down after appearing in the meme at the age of who Chloe's mother continued to video her life up until the age of 10. at which point the family decided to sell the meme as an nft yet achieving a price of 74 000 US dollars they plan on using the money to put their kids through college which isn't a bad idea giving Chloe and her sister are now both in their teens as is Dennis Colin also known as the Popeyes kid the man began with an extremely basic Vine back in August 2013 where the real Snoopy videoed a random kid in Popeyes who was waiting to refill his drink oh say oh the following day the image made its way over to Twitter with the caption when I see my teacher at a store with the subsequent popularity of the meme giving the kids social anxiety throughout his early teens however this would motivate him to increase his skills as a football player making a post on Twitter roughly nine years after first going viral reading from Popeyes to state champion the post was then reshared to Dennis Instagram with the caption I need everyone to repost this and tag at Popeyes I just want to talk business which is followed by another post only three days later announcing that he'd been officially sponsored by the company it then featuring their Super Bowl commercial where he'd announce his own celebrity meal deal called the eyes on the fries or pies offer which then led to him winning breakthrough athlete of the year at his Lake Erie College just a few months ago although while Dennis story started low and ended triumphantly El receda's story started triumphantly but ended in tragedy the meme was born back in June 2007 when El recedes translating to the giggles was interviewed on a Spanish TV show where he displayed quite possibly the most contagious laugh in human history within only five days of the original interviewer the clip had made its way over to YouTube however in September 2020 El recitus was hospitalized as a result of diabetes where he had to have his left leg amputated in response to the unfortunate situation a French video Forum raised 14 000 Euros for El recitus allowing him to purchase an electric scooter and wheelchair although within only six months he was back in the hospital El recidus passed away on the 28th of April 2021 from complications related to his illness yet his presence on the internet will likely live forever as will bad luck Brian's whether he likes it or not the person in the photo's real name is Kyle Craven who deliberately purchased a cheap thrift shop outfit so he could take a terrible yearbook photo his friend then downloaded the photo added the caption takes driving test gets first DUI and posted it to the advice animal subreddit on the 24th of January 2012 with the title Bad Luck Brian the main was then remade with a different caption reading falls asleep in class wet dream with the now clearly established purpose causing the meme to go viral ask Siri to tell a joke she turns on front camera stops drops and rolls into another fire parents get divorced no one wants custody the virality of Bad Luck Brian led him to recreate the meme at VidCon two years later before he then get recognized by Seth Rogen which turned into advertising opportunities with McDonald's The General car insurance and Volkswagen Bad Luck Brian then featured in a book on t-shirts and over 20 different games which according to an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald made in between 15 and 20 000 in the three years after first going by roller the article also explained that Brian works as a project manager for his father's Construction Company where according to his LinkedIn he recently became the vice president after 17 years experience brand has since gotten married and had two kids although as shown by this photo they might not be a fan of the meme despite this bra Ryan recreated the photo for his 32nd birthday although can you even talk about Bad Luck Brian without mentioning Scumbag Steve the guy in the photo had posted the image to his Myspace back in 2006 however it wouldn't be until the 21st of January 2011 when the photo was reposted to R funny year with 11 different captions representing him as the unrecipical stoner that everybody had in their school I've never seen a meme I could relate to more I knew so many kids like this in high school and unfortunately hung out with a lot of them for a while stupid high school phase this one is on the money only made funnier when the real person in the picture came forward as 22 year old Blake Boston who was unemployed and wanting to fight anybody who talked about the meme the fact that he's a real scumbag makes the meme a thousand times funnier Steve then took advantage of the Fame by launching his own rap career starting a series called scumbag Thursdays and attending roflcon 2012 where he'd gained favor from the public after eventually embracing the meme by this point however his popularity had well and truly faded and scumbag stay fell back Into Obscurity that would be until April 2021 when Know Your Meme had an update on his life my name is Blake Boston AKA scumbag Steves in which he'd show that he still had the Hat while explaining that he was engaged had two kids and was trying to start a band that very same month scumbag stays sold the meme as an nft for 57 000 US Dollars before making a post on Twitter reading whoever this is thank you you have no idea what this meant to me and my two boys I'm humbled and so grateful turning Scumbag Steve into Good Guy Greg whose identity is still a mystery more than 12 years later Good Guy Greg has been described as the antithesis of Scumbag Steve the captions generally depict the character as kind generous or empathetic to other people having blown up around 4 months after Scumbag Steve with this image here sleeps on your couch makes breakfast although despite the meme's instant popularity the person in the picture never came forward to claim that it was them until around three months later when the following post was is made to the ask me anything subreddit I passed the six-week Challenge and crewed alongside Good Guy Greg I'm a commercial fisherman AMA attaching five supposed photos of the man who look nothing like Good Guy Greg am I the only one who can't see the resemblance to GGG leading other commenters to dig a Little Deeper how did you come to find out he was Good Guy Greg we showed him a picture of Good Guy Greg and he said that it was him we didn't tell him that his picture was famous did JJJ wonder why you had a picture of him not really what really what the hell so this random dude hops onto the same boat as him and just happens to have a picture of him from who knows how long ago and he's just yeah that's me and doesn't take a second to wonder why in a different AMA a user claimed to know the real identity of the real Good Guy Greg before posting this photo which while looking extremely similar was debunked given the difference in eye color the person in the picture likely didn't want to be famous from a photo of him smoking yet this comment puts forward a much more beautiful theory he didn't come forward because he's a good guy who isn't interested in Fame his humble and happy knowing that his picture is out there giving people joy and he's satisfied with that he doesn't need the credit or the attention and it's hard to give an update on someone who's practically a ghost although the overly attached girlfriend happens to be the opposite having spent over 10 years on YouTube talking about the downsides of becoming a meme the overly attached girlfriend came from a video titled JB fan video in which a YouTuber named Lena Morris parody Justin Bieber's song Boyfriend with lyrics depicting her as the stereotypical clingy girlfriend although as the meme began to go viral it took only 11 days before Lena mentioned that she was uncomfortable with having her face everywhere I'm always amused by the Overly Attached GF tweets then I realize my face is associated with it and I'm slightly Disturbed still awesome despite being slightly disturbed by the meme it would shoot Lena into stardom with every video on her Channel racking up over a million views each although this Fame wouldn't last forever the meme slowly lost its relevance and by 2015 three years later was barely gaining a hundred thousand views per video by 2019 Lena had completely abandoned her Channel prompting an upload titled breaking up with YouTube in which it explained how Fame had taken a toll on her mental health I sort of landed myself in a real depression and I was keeping it a real deep secret for this reason she then state that she was quitting YouTube for good I know that this part of my life is done and it's time to say goodbye before announcing an April 2021 that she was selling her meme as an nft IT managed to achieve a mind-blowing price of 411 000 US Dollars during which she'd give her live reaction on Twitter by stating what BRB I need a minute WTF truly you have no idea how this is going to change my life I mean it I'm so incredibly thankful and also still just blown away so weird so-called WTF thank you internet although she could still never be as confused as the have you ever had a dream kid the name came from a 1999 HBO kid show and featured an unknown who has attempting to recap this quote from Hercules haven't you ever had a dream something you wanted so bad you'd do anything instead completely fumbling his words have you ever had a dream that that you um you had you you you want you want him to do you so much you could do anything in June 2011 approximately 12 years after the show aired the clip was reposted to YouTube where it went unbelievably viral having racked up over 80 million views since it was first posted although still nobody knew the name of the child that would be until the 8th of July 2021 when wavy web surf posted this video prompting a message from a fan who told wavy hey man I know who the kid is from have you ever had a dream went to high school with him I'll give you his name so you can go check him out for yourself he probably won't want to be out there like that but thought it was cool you were looking and thought I'd give you the answer you were searching for before attaching a Facebook profile of someone named Joseph Circle who had the dream kid as his profile picture after confirming that it was in fact him the two recorded an interviewer where Joe explained that he was now working in the corporate world with the wavy web surf interview then leading to a Buzzfeed video which has since received almost 10 million views Joe still looks pretty similar to how he looked as a child however the kazoo kid looks almost unrecognizable the origins of this meme are actually very similar to that of the dream kid as both include a five-year-old child Landing a role in a VHS TV show were only to achieve random success on YouTube many years later in this case the 50 million view video was called Yuan kazoo and given it was filmed 25 years prior in 1989. people began to wonder where the kid ended up using his name listed in the credits Brett Ambler people were able to track down his Twitter and since he was now in his mid-30s he looked like a totally different person with his newly found accidental Fame red announced that he'd be hosting and ask me anything on which he was asked what profession do you have now are you an actor or musician responding with I'm lucky enough to say that I'm still an actor and musician which can be confirmed on his YouTube channel where the kazoo still appears in almost every video but while the kazoo kid continues to document his media presence the 9 plus 10 kit has been so quiet people thought he became a missing person after a legendary Vine was posted back in June 2013 an article was published to the website Hustlers titled nine plus ten equals 21 kid vine has reportedly run away from home and currently being searched for read goodbye note here which stated the child whose real name is Habib sis ran away from his home Saturday night and is currently being searched for throughout the whole Baltimore area authorities say the child left a goodbye note in his bedroom that read I'm tired of everyone laughing at me by running away forever now if you want to find me the only clue I leaving is 21. when the article was reposted to the IGN forums users showed concern however it was quickly debunked when the original Viner uploaded a new video captioned my little bro is all good whoever made up that story has no life by the way his name is azavia however despite being given his first name there's almost no other information about him anywhere on the internet his last online appearance was in December 2014 when it recreate the meme although since then the kid has completely vanished his brother who uploaded the original vine continues to post gym videos on Tech talk on YouTube however his last name is in public so he can't figure out Xavier's full name in a 9 plus 10 kid Iceberg one of the bottom tier states there was a rumor going around that the kid signed up for the area 51 raid back in 2019 although there's no sauce on the post or on Google given the vine is more than 10 years old Xavier is now presumably in his late teens or early 20s although given he didn't really care about his Fame in the first place hey bro you know you're famous bro yeah you got like 200 000 rebounds bro he's likely made the deliberate choice to keep his identity hidden

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Keywords: Jeremy Meeks, Ermahgerd, Pepe, College Freshman, Villanova Crying Piccolo Girl, Overly Attached Girlfriend, Bad Luck Brian, Success Kid, Meme, memes, top 10, top 5, kids, funny, hilarious, beamazed, be amazed, famous memes, then and now, pics, then and now pics, before after, memes now, famous internet memes, what they look like, look like today, memes then and now, meme stars, where are they now, where they are now, what they look like today

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Length: 13min 35sec (815 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 21 2023