Hide the Pain Harold is Imgur’s Meme of the Decade

2020 is hither and nosotros are at the beginning of a new decade. In the past decade, we witnessed memes evolve to become 1 of the indispensable parts of the internet. With various meme formats and templates throughout the decade, picking the all-time meme can be difficult. Thank you to Imgur, we have a winner – Hide the Pain Harold.

To arrive at this result, the online paradigm sharing platform shortlisted ten meme formats from two-thousand nominations and conducted a survey. The survey gained 54,768 votes in 72 hours.

As Imgur puts it, "Hide the Hurting Harold represents a deep-seated emotion, a quiet dread, or existential anguish that resides in all of u.s.". I don't know almost you but I've personally related to the meme several times throughout all these years.

Hide the Pain Harold faced shut competition with "A New Badly Photoshopped Photo of Michael Cera Everyday" and "This is Fine" meme to claim the glorious championship. Take a expect at the percentage of votes for memes beneath.

Imgur's Meme of the Decade — Credits: Imgur

Imgur too gave us some insights regarding the meme's timeline. According to Imgur, the meme started surfacing on the internet forums and social media dorsum in 2011. In example yous're unaware, the human behind the meme is András Arató, a retired engineer from Hungary.

Initially, he didn't fifty-fifty realize that he was part of a meme."At offset I saw only normal stock photos, where I was a doctor or a lawyer or a professor or something similar this. Some months later I found my first meme photo. On an American site.", Arató told The Independent in 2017.

So, which is your favorite meme of the decade? Tell us in the comments.