Edit #261,942 - Hide The Pain Harold

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_[Major rewrite coming though]_
 
 
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h2. About
 
 
<b>Hide The Pain Harold</b>, and sometimes just <b>"Harold"</b>, is the name given to an old man in stock photos, whose face indicates a certain amount of pain and/or uncomfortableness. The photos had spawned many photoshop edits. 
 
<b>Hide The Pain Harold</b>, and sometimes just <b>"Harold"</b>, is the name given to an old man from stock photos, whose face appears to indicate a certain amount of pain and/or uncomfortableness. 
 
 
h2. Origin
 
 
The earliest known archived thread where the first edits had appeared can be found on Facepunch, dating back to 2011. On September 13th, a user Greenen72, posted stock photos[1], originally from the site DreamsTime due to having the site's watermark on them.
 
The earliest known archived thread, where Harold first got attention, can be found on Facepunch, dating back to 2011. On September 13th, a user Greenen72, posted stock photos with the old man[1], originally from the site DreamsTime due to pictures having the site's watermark on them.
 
 
h2. Spread
 
 
%{color:gray}However he began to shine again when a memecenter user in 2012 called craftypasta began to use his face as a caption meme and being used mostly for sex/rape jokes, he began to spread out the site to hugelol, redit and more sites when finally turned a religion in memecenter and hugelol.
 
http://www.memecenter.com/craftypasta
 
http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1124864%
 
 
h2. External References
 
 
fn1. Facepunch - "original post":http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1124864