The global phenomenon of the Distracted Boyfriend ... of his images didn’t lead to any monetary compensation, Antonio Guillem will certainly be immortalized in meme culture as the original ...

This is the "distracted boyfriend" stock photo, an image that launched a thousand memes. And no one’s more surprised at its popularity than the man who took it. Antonio Guillem is a 45-year-old ...

This particular image would soon stand out and become iconic in the world of memes. While many memes evolve slowly, the ‘Distracted Boyfriend’ meme seemed destined for instant fame.

You might have thought you'd heard the end of that whole "distracted boyfriend" meme, but sadly you'd be ... Andrew Abernathy stumbled across the original image while browsing for stock photos.

and even got meta about memes: At that point, as the original meme reached peak social media saturation, its variants started flying as quickly as the original version: Unlike past meme hits ...

but the popular “distracted boyfriend” meme is sexist, the Swedish advertising standards watchdog has said. It found that the widely shared image depicts a woman as a “sex object” and ...

The Spanish models have been labeled everything from "cold beer" to "Henry the VIII" in the popular internet phenomenon. By Seth Abramovitch Senior Writer You’ll always remember the first time ...

Said meme is, of course, "Distracted Boyfriend." It started off as a sexist image of a plaid-clad man ... to the guy from the original meme. "People have said he looks familiar, but no one has ...

The couple in the "distracted boyfriend' meme are speaking out ... "Laura," the stage name for the girlfriend of "Mario" in the image. Antonio Guillem, the photographer of the image, took ...

Little did I know that what I’d stumbled upon was the meme of the summer, commonly referred to online as “distracted boyfriend.” I’d soon be seeing that same stock-image photo ...