Lucky Luciano Had To Recreate His Iconic Photograph Ten Years Later

He had to do it to us one more time: Lachborne "Lucky" Bachkhaz, better known online as Lucky Luciano, has returned to the spot in front of his childhood home in Tampa, Florida to recreate the photograph that became one of the most massive memes of the mid-to-late 2010s.

The original photograph of then 17-year-old Lucky, which was posted in September 2014 with the caption "You know I had to do it to em," went absolutely viral in 2016, inspiring thousands of memes since.

In the photograph, Lucky stands on a tree-lined sidewalk in a pink shirt and shorts and strikes the pose that would become forever intertwined with the famous caption. Interestingly, the location of the photo is right out front of his childhood home.

When Lachborne Bachkhaz, who still goes by "Lucky" and today operates a mobile auto-detailing business, first went viral online a decade ago, he was overwhelmed by the sudden fame and shied away from it as he felt like people were making fun of him. He has since changed his mind, having realized "that's just what the internet does."

Thousands of edits, redraws and parodies of the photograph now exist online, and the crossover with the Dr. Phil M&M has been perhaps one of the most viral.

The place has also become a sort of a pilgrimage spot for meme lovers in Florida and beyond since 2014, with neighbors reporting that people still frequently visit the spot, marked on Google Maps as "a place of worship," to snap a few tributes.

In his first-ever interview with the Tampa Bay Times by reporter Christopher Spata, Lucky reminisced about the time when the photograph went viral, saying that it was a tough period in his life as he had recently lost his father and that he didn't have much guidance on how to handle fame back then.

"That was actually a tough time for me. I had recently lost my dad, and my mom had passed away already when I was like younger, when I was like 12, so I didn’t have much guidance on how to handle things when that photo went viral. But I was also really happy then, too … it’s nostalgia. Nostalgia turns everything into a fantasy. You remember the good times."

For the interview, Lucky recreated his iconic photograph, returning to the same spot in front of his childhood home on Capitol Drive in Tampa 10 years later.

In the interview, Lucky said that he regrets missing his opportunity to make something more out of his fame back when the meme went viral, but if anyone wants to collaborate, he's open to that.

"I want to know, what do people want? What would they like to get from me? If anyone has ideas on how to work together, they can reach out."

Know Your Meme has been in contact with Lucky for years attempting to arrange an interview, but we were never able to get him to sit down to tell his story with us. As to why Lucky decided to finally speak out about his experience with becoming a meme, he also told the TB Times, "I’ve been running away from it [the meme] for long enough that I figured it was time to finally embrace it."