About

Mr. Steal Your Grandma is the nickname given to Houston, Texas resident Irvin Randle after pictures of the photogenic 54-year-old teacher began circulating in late June 2016.

Origin

On February 7th, 2015, Randle created the @irvinrandle^[4] Instagram feed (shown below).

The account received little attention until June 29th, 2016, when Twitter user @_magamedze^[1] posted several photographs of Randle along with the caption "Mr Steal Your Grandma" (shown below). Within one week, the tweet gathered upwards of 12,300 retweets and 11,100 likes.

Spread

That same day, other Twitter and Instagram users began posting photographs of Randle, some of which included the hashtag #MrStealYourGrandma^[6][8] (shown below).

On July 1st, Randle launched a fan page on Facebook,^[2] gathering upwards of 8,400 likes in the next four days. That day, The Houston Chronicle^[3] published an interview with Randle, who revealed that he discovered his internet fame after his daughter saw him trending on Twitter. Meanwhile, YouTuber Asio Marinho uploaded an audio interview with Randle (shown below).

In the coming days, several news sites published articles about Randle's trending photographs, including BuzzFeed,^[9] UpRoxx,^[10] The Daily Mail^[11] and The Telegraph.^[12]

Search Interest

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