Sep 23, 2022 22:00:00

`` Dick the Birthday Boy '', which is quietly popular as a heterogeneous meme, was born from the mischief of a close friend

A photo of a child wearing a shirt that says 'DICK THE BIRTHDAY BOY' has become a meme with the image of a 'cursed photo' and an 'awkward family photo', and is used favorably by some netizens. About the history of this photo, Rich Evans, the boy wearing the shirt, looks back on the history of this photo.

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The photo in question is known as a meme dubbed ' Dick the Birthday Boy ' with the text on the shirt intact, and several collage images have been posted online of the eerie mascot character sitting next to Mr. Evans. I'm here.


This is a childhood photo of Mr. Evans , who is a host and actor at the video production company Red Letter Media . The shirt was made by my grandmother, and this photo was taken by my family on Evans' birthday.

The photo first appeared on the internet in 2013. When Mike Stoclasa, the founder of Red Letter Media and a close friend of Mr. Evans, shot a video about Halloween, it happened to be Evans' birthday on that day. It was the beginning of teasing Mr. Evans. Mr. Stoclasa bothered to reproduce the T-shirt and gave it as a birthday present, but Mr. Evans did not remember the T-shirt at all.

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The photo in question was at my grandmother's house for a while, but when Mr. Evans was in his 20s, his grandmother died and was about to be thrown away as garbage when he sorted out his belongings. However, it seems that Mr. Straxa, who came to help, discovered that 'there are interesting pictures' and kept them.

Initially, this photo appeared as a mere 'inside joke', but one year later it was posted on an

image posting site without any context, and it began to spread explosively among Internet users. It can be seen that there was a certain level of name recognition, such as the famous actor Julia Roberts mentioning it on a talk show.

In addition, T-shirts imitating this design are being sold without permission, and Mr. Evans commented on this, 'I can't say anything at this time.'

Mr. Evans and Mr. Straxa reconfirmed the actual photograph about 10 years after the first appearance of the photograph. The photos were mosaicked so that they would not be preserved digitally.

Mr. Evans sells T-shirts printed with this mosaic photo on the official website of Red Letter Media.