If you spend a lot of time using social media, then this face will look really familiar. It's been unofficially dubbed the "white guy blinking" meme for the exact reasons you would suspect: it ...

Everyone knows the meme but few people know the man behind it. In 2013, Drew Scanlon was just another guy making a video game show with his friends. During an episode of "Unprofessional Fridays" on ...

Twitter commentary has grown ever more incredulous this month, thanks to the latest meme to go viral in 2017. Known simply as "Blinking Guy" or “White Guy Blinking,” the meme is being used to react to ...

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Twelve years ago, a man blinked on camera, and his life hasn't been the same since. Meet Drew Scanlon. He's been known as the Blinking Guy since 2017, when a clip from a live stream ...

Drew Scanlon, immortalized online as the “Blinking White Guy,” is using his viral recognition to raise funds for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. In 2013, Scanlon, a video editor and podcaster ...

At the end of 2017, we ranked “That blinking white guy GIF” as number seven on a list of the year’s worst things on the internet. As Sean O’Neal wrote about it, the GIF “summed up the empty, yet oddly ...

Step aside SaltBae: the stand out meme of 2017 came in the shape of the blinking white guy, who was - and still is - wheeled out in GIF form across social media ...

He’s a video editor, beacon of health and positivity, podcaster, and former video producer at gaming website “Giant Bomb.” In the mid-late twenty tens his face became an emblem of our surprise and ...

If you've been on social media in the past two years, you've probably seen Drew Scanlon's face as the "blinking white guy" gif. He's now raising money for multiple sclerosis research. Sponsor Message ...