Name: I Accidentally Became A Meme: Blinking White Guy
Uploaded: 2020-12-17T15:52:41.000Z
Duration: 5 min 40 s
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and some of you may know me as the blinking white guy meme.

I was working as a video producer at a website

that covers the video game industry called Giant Bomb.

I not only was shooting and editing a lot of video,

everyone was always on camera kind of all the time.

We did this weekly show called Unprofessional Fridays

and it was basically just us sitting around

so, there were animated gifs being made of us constantly.

When that happened, it always was sort of contained

The video of the meme was recorded in just one

of these sessions where we'd get together and play games,

and my coworker Jeff was playing a game called

- With my hoe here. I can kind of till the-

And it was just one joke in a 2 hour show,

it didn't, at the time, it didn't stand out

when that video was shot and when the meme

Uh, I always just attribute it to internet chaos theory.

The point where I noticed that it had, sort of,

Like, their Mom used it on Facebook or something.

She has no idea who you are, but she used it on Facebook.

And there were also a lot of tweets using it

that had tens of thousands of likes and retweets.

because it felt very much out of my control.

I mean, nothing on the internet is within anyone's control,

really, but it just, there's something about

I was very thankful that that clip was fairly inocuous.

Something I said may have been twisted into something bad,

like, that has certainly happened to people on the internet.

At some points, it almost doesn't feel like me.

Like, I just made a face on a livestream.

trimmed that out and then discovered a way to use it.

There's still not a lot of association with me.

and so, you really have to dig a little bit

to figure out, to trace it back to again, a real person.

I have been recognized one time as the meme guy

because of the fact that it was so long between

the filming of the video and when it, kind of, got popular,

Like, I had more facial hair, my hair was longer.

So, shout out to the guy at the Dublin Best Buy.

they don't necessarily expect that from memes

I don't know that people necessarily will notice someone

and say hey, I think I know that guy from a meme.

where I was leaving Giant Bomb to start Cloth Map.

but it's supported by my audience on Patreon.

Some people, I think, jokingly associated, like,

Drew's a big meme now so he's gonna go out on his own,

when, like, there was no correlation there at all.

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