Here's the guy in case you've never heard of him
I told Kevin, and Manny, and Maurie, and Christina that I was going to be the ridiculously photogenic guy, but none of them had heard of him. This made me think I’d made a bad costume decision. I explained to them that some photographer had taken a picture of some random people running in a marathon and the guy in the picture was unusually photogenic for someone running in a race. The photographer posted the picture of Flickr with a caption that said, “Mr. Ridiculously Photogenic Guy,” and for some reason the image went viral and was the source of numerous memes.
I decided to be the ridiculously photogenic guy anyway mostly because it was super-easy (I wore my running clothes and taped a homemade marathon bib to my shirt). A lot of people at the dance didn’t know who I was and I explained it a few times, but I formed a special bond with the people who did recognize me. A few strangers said, “Hey, you’re that meme!” and “You’re that guy from Facebook” and my heart warmed when someone said, “You’re the ridiculously photogenic guy!” So instead of portraying a man that was arrested for indecent exposure, I portrayed a man a girl once described as “handsome.” I think I made the right choice.
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