RPG!

Memes may be the longest running trend on the Internet. There are millions, if not billions of meme's that can be found on all social media including Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and now Instagram. A recent meme that was founded just under a year ago was the "Ridiculously Photogenic Guy" aka. RPG. The original picture was taken at Cooper River Bridge Run on March 31, 2012 by a photographer and computer programmer Will King. King uploaded a set of almost 100 photographs taken at the run onto Flickr and Facebook. One of King's friends commented on this particular photo, thus dubbing the man in the photograph, who was later revealed as Zeddie Little as the, "Ridiculously Handsome Guy". King uploaded a cropped version of just Little on Reddit with the title, "My friends call him, 'Mr. Ridiculously Handsome Guy'" which received over 40 000 votes. King also posted this picture with the same title on Flickr and within an hour received 300 000 views. Days later, Quickmeme received over 1000 submissions of RPG. The meaning behind this meme is that the "ridiculous photogenic guy" is so incredibly handsome he could have anything he wants and that everyone (male or female) would want him. There have been several different spinoffs to this meme, such as, "Ridiculously Photogenic Surgery Girl", "Ridiculously Photogenic Metal Head" and "Ridiculously Photogenic Syrian Rebel". All of which have the same meaning where they could have anything they want and that everyone wants them because they are incredibly photogenic. On April 4, 2012, Little was interviewed on Good Morning America and he announced that he was going to run in the New York City Marathon and raise money for the John Ritter Aortic Health Foundation. I think it's amazing that Little used his unpredicted Internet fame to raise money for charity. Seeing the meaning behind the meme, he used the context to his advantage to raise money for a good cause.