Gaston

[NOTE: Major rewrite in progress!]

Origin

Gaston is a character created by the Disney corporation, and is the main antagonist in their movie Beauty and the Beast. Gaston eventually gained popularity on the internet, becoming a frequent subject of youtube poops, image macros and discussion.

Sightings on 4chanarchive:

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The first time Gaston appeared in Youtube Poops and legends was during the end of 2008, when an unknown guy made the video “Gaston punches in the barge”, in which the Frenchmen showed a sample of his amazing skills. Two months later, many other video were visible on Youtube.

Nobody X Like Gaston!

Nobody [insert thing that is done] like Gaston! is a line in the song Gaston. This phrase became associated with Gaston’s presence online. An advice-animal type macro was made of this which reportedly crashed Memegenerator for a week due to its popularity. In addition, many other image macros have surfaced.

Gaston Reads X

Gaston Reads X originated from an image of Gaston reading a book while the heroine of Beauty and the Beast, Bella, watches. The image first started gaining popularity on DeviantArt, after a user made a humorous demotivational poster of Gaston from Disney’s Beauty and the Beast as he held a book sideways with a shocked look on his face. Since then, there have been numerous edits of this, usually consisting of replacing the characters in the picture.
This sub-meme is sometimes accompanied by the phrase “A sandwich with words?”.