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6 Reasons We’re All Embarrassingly Jealous Of Ryan Gosling

Celebrity is annoying. It’s annoying because it’s a part of our culture that is all but unavoidable, and especially for those of us with an interest in movies and television and pop culture, the world of celebrity causes an abundance of mixed feelings. On one hand, it’s a substantively vacuous world of dull material excess, a shameless public display of personal spectacle that is as phony as it is pathetic. On the other, it’s a world of intriguing power, allowing freedoms that the select few in our society get to enjoy, and is at least partly desirable for all of us if we’re truly honest, even though each one of us knows if we ever got really famous we’d of course use that power in good and interesting ways. It’s why most people, if they thought long and hard about it, would change places in an instant with a person like Ryan Gosling.

[h2]4) And he’s inspired amazing memes[/h2]

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He’s young, handsome, and uniquely talented, but it’s very possible that the entirety of Ryan Gosling’s contributions to human culture during his time of earth hundreds, even thousands of years from now will ultimately be summed up by two simple words: “Hey girl.” It is the meme to end all memes. Or at least, it’s a meme that has spun off a million other memes in a million other memetic directions. What started as simply “F**k Yeah Ryan Gosling” turned into not only a celebration of the actor and an excuse to see countless candid and posed photos of him, but a way various interest groups could tack on their messages in a fun way to this meme and that face, creating juxtapositions that undoubtedly have come to define a generation’s humor and specialized academic knowledge. The winner of these memes, Feminist Ryan Gosling, was even shamelessly made into a book that people paid actual money for.

A close second to the myriad Gosling Tumblr pages are the incredible Ryan Gosling Won’t Eat His Cereal videos on Vine. They take advantage of the many moments he has been featured in films saying nothing and looking generally distraught. Something about this guy inspires people do get creative and weird in the best ways. I can’t help but wonder what sort of memes Marlon Brando would have generated had the internet been around in the 1950s.

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