BIOGRAPHY:
“Hide the Pain Harold” (most commonly referred to as, Harold) earliest known documentation is traced back to a photoshopping thread titled, ‘Photoshop Hide-the-Pain-Harold’, which appears to be his place of birth. Harold’s life began the 23rd of October, 2011.
(source: http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1124864 )
Harold is a man wise beyond his years and always seems to have a twinkle in his eye. Whether this twinkle might be from heavy drug use, or from the significant amount of pain he withholds, Harold remains a quiet man. Typically, Harold is used as a reaction image with no caption. There are truly no words needed when viewing the expression of his wrinkled face, it screams 1000 words + “rape”.
Although Harold has not made his opinion about rape and sexual violence known to the public, his stock images seem to fully imply that he is indeed a strong supporter of vicious sex acts. When viewing content such as tentacles, whips, anal beads, or hand cuffs, Harold’s portrait is often found at the bottom of the post.
(continued) THEBEGINNING:
The numerous pages in the ‘Photoshop Hide-the-Pain-Harold’ thread all reveal a crucial fact within their images. Although difficult to see with the naked eye, all Harold images contain a very large swirled watermark covering approximately 50% of the image. In the bottom right corner, there is another microscopic watermark reading, “dreamstime.com”. These clues are difficult to decode, but many believe that Harold was a model for an ancient stock image company.
(source: http://www.dreamstime.com/ )
RISE TO FAME:
Harold became an iconic figure within the community of users on memecenter.com at the beginning of 2014. After his growing popularity and many users creating Harold posts, the admins of the website decided to include a ‘Harold’ folder for reaction images in the comment section. Harold was not always in the spotlight though. A user (craftypasta) was known for his obsession with Harold, but nobody understood what Harold was or how he was important in the meme world. After he started creating vicious comments and posts containing Harold’s involvement of the rape arts, the admins were appalled and permanently banned the user. It is unknown whether it was support of Harold or mocking the banned user, but many users starting using Harold in their jokes/posts. In mid 2014, Harold returned with a vengeance.
the OP probably just wanted to create this entry and get help writing from others. any info i can find, i will keep pushing to get edited. one day this entry shall be worthy and glorious – hopefully today.
This reaction image is quite common but it’s too early to call it a meme. The only reason I’m saying too early instead of not at all is because of the Confused Black Girl article we have.
>Never heard of most of the sites
>No videos or images
>Seen no traces of said “meme”
>Article looks like it was written by a 4 year old.
Maybe, it’ll be a thing eventually, but for now…
oh… darn,
well i did spread it in memecenter with another user called pertinax(http://www.memecenter.com/fun/3802571/helga-gets-nailed/comments) being us the main promoters, we did so many harold memes that the admins on the site implemented harold pics in the site image gallery.
(sorry for the self insert :p)
@Craftypasta from Mexico, Age 16
This Harold is more like a Person, not a Meme. Maybe if you take the time to readtheguidelines and understanding the word meme, you would know how to properly edit and not post sloppy stubbed entries like this one. And also it’s a common spam that people keep creating new accounts to spam made-up crap. Are you one of those spammers?
this is not spam, nor is it made up. i can confirm the information above is true, as i am one of harold’s lovers and followers. harold is love, harold is life. long after the harold thread died, he was recreated on memecenter, via accounts dedicated to posting harold memes. more people began making harold accounts, harold memes, and eventually the memecenter admins made a gallery folder for ‘harold’ images.
// please, inform me of the part where i said it was being forced, and what part of this is spam.. do you use memecenter? if you did, you would see that harold is there… i saw that harold had a page here, and i had to sign up to reply to your comment. i’m really not sure why you’re so mad and butt hurt about it.
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