Not all heroes wear capes, some, well, blink confusedly.

That’s been the story to some degree of the last 12 years of Drew Scanlon, a man who would come to be known as “Blinking Guy,” but who used that fame to raise money for charitable causes. Blinking Guy GIF from Blinking Guy GIFs

Scanlon’s life would change forever by a face he made on a video game review livestream in 2013, not knowing it would come to anything, not least because he had nothing to do with it.

“A lot of times it doesn’t feel like me, because I didn’t really have anything to do with it, besides the fact that it’s my face.”

He has no idea how it’s become so popular—so popular that it was ranked by Vox as the 11th best internet meme of all time.

Typically, blinking guy is the go-to meme for conveying quiet irritat

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