Why is it so popular? It seems to have started from a tweet in early February, which now boasts more than 125,000 likes.The GIF is big enough now, there's even a "Blinking White Guy" Twitter ...

The clip is from 2013, though, and the context doesn’t have much bearing on the meme that’s popping up everywhere this week. Divorced from its context, the White Guy Blinking GIF can be a ...

The "Blinking White Guy" GIF was one of the most popular (and saltiest) memes out there in 2017. And now, the blinking white guy himself has emerged for an interview on Good Morning America ...

The blinking white guy is often misidentified as Michael C. Hall, Tom Brady, or Cary Elwes. He’s really a San Francisco-based video editor named Drew Scanlon. Buzzfeed interviewed him in order ...

Like many great memes, Blinking Guy comes from humble, obscure origins. The star of the GIF is Drew Scanlon, a California-born video producer and editor for the video game site Giant Bomb.

Meme History: The story behind “Blinking White Guy,” the GIF you’ve seen a million times Drew Scanlon’s face became one of the most popular memes in the world.

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 ...

Drew Scanlon, immortalized online as the “Blinking White Guy,” is using his viral recognition to raise funds for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Scanlon first began donating to the organization in 2016, later asking fans of his viral meme to contribute. By 2021, the video editor and podcaster raised more than $154,000, according to the ...

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, the video editor and ...