How Kevin James became the internet's new King of Memes No, you're not crazy: A photo of Kevin James has taken over the internet. Updated Sept. 28, 2023, 2:35 PM EDT ...

Kevin James meme origins and spread The photo first appeared on Getty Images on Jan. 1, 1998, with the description stating that Esparzam captured it in the “late 1990s” for the CBS Photo Archive.

Kevin James meme origins On New Year’s Day, 1998, a promotional photo of Kevin James taken by photographer Tony Esparaza for CBS’s The King of Queens , was published to Getty Images.