Hey, an attractive man! Made you look...

 Just put an attractive man's photo on the internet and what do you get? The latest web craze/fad/obsession. See? Attractive people really draw people in...

The story, or so I'm told:

Apparently, on March 31st, a computer programmer named Will King uploaded to Facebook or Flickr nearly one hundred photos of the Cooper River Bridge Run in Charleston, South Carolina he had taken. One of which, was the (unadulterated-as in, non-meme) image seen above, of Zeddie Little, a twenty-five-year-old New Yorker, and otherwise now known as 'Ridiculously Photogenic Guy'. The name was given to the angelic-faced runner by a friend of King's and it stuck. The photo, which was posted to the social news website Reddit on the third of this month, is said to have received 300, 000 views within an hour of the photo being posted to Flickr . From that point, there have been many new memes featuring the smiling athlete. And no, I'm not posting pictures of an attractive man just to attract attention to this blog...well not entirely anyway. ;)



Next for the overnight celebrity was an appearance on Good Morning America on the 11th of this month, to talk about his unexpected internet fame. Little's reaction to his fame was in good humour, and he was pleased that the joke was a positive one, rather than cruel, like a lot of other, similar things out there. It was also a good opportunity to get coverage for the next run he is planning to do to raise money for the John Ritter Foundation for Aortic Health.

I couldn't believe this story when I was first told it; I thought it a massive indicator of how narcissistic, and downright strange, online society can be. The more I read and watched about this however, the more reconciled I became to the idea. I mean, why not? No one has been cruel to anyone else, and some of the awareness raised may be directed at the John Ritter Foundation. Not to mention, there are many, many more photos of an attractive man on the internet. How could that be a bad thing? Just saying.

If you would like to read more: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ridiculously-photogenic-guy-zeddie-little

Or, you know, you could just look him up on a meme site, for a few laughs.

-Bon