Dan Hentschel in the Desert
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Dan Hentschel in the Desert refers to a photograph of comedian Dan Hentschel wearing a headband and making a pouting expression while standing in the middle of a desert. Posted in March 2025, the photograph gained virality as source material for redraws and edits referencing popular culture.
Origin
On March 1st, 2025, comedian Dan Hentschel posted a photograph of himself standing in the middle of a desert with sand dunes in the background while wearing a striped headband and pouting. The post (shown below) received over 4,200 reposts and 76,000 likes on X[1] in one day.
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Starting on March 1st, 2025, users on X edited and captioned the photograph to reference various media. Within 10 minutes of the original post, X[2] user @Shreglo made the earliest found edit of the image, a Guilty Gear meme that gained over 250 reposts and 2,700 likes in one day (shown below).
Later that day, X[3] user @_sable_cat_ replied to the original post with an edit in which they gave Henschel blue eyes and filt-plugs, making a reference to Fremen in Dune. The post (shown below) received over 70 reposts and 2,200 likes in one day.
More edits, caption memes and redraws based on the image were shared on X / Twitter in early March 2025.
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