... till America he has a massive  fanbase of more thousand people,
because the self-portrait photos of Andás became memes.
His portrait is shopped on bodies in funny or extreme situations,
and those, when finished almost have their own life path.
Today András smilingly nods his evergrowing popularity.
[Hungarian pensioner becomes net hit]
A silver bearded grandpa with a funny smile,  and much telling look.
Only this much and the photo of this man was snatched on the internet,
and he became one of the most widely known meme figures.
It means, they are making new pictures from his everyday photos,
by adding  funny text or other adjustments, that becomes a net sensation.
Interesting, that this old gent, whos pictures are well known and loved from America to Russia,
is a 70 year old electrical engineer, living in Budapest.
As soon as i wrote this here, after 10 seconds, now 75 people liked it,
and 9 people shared it already.
Amazing what people do. All Russians.
Now its 133, 134 people liked it.
12 people shared it under 1 minutes.
Arató András István hardly belives it himself,
but he became a worldwide hit on the internet in years.
Mostly young people are creating memes form his pictures
Few years ago András cried out when he found his adjusted pictures
but then he realized, he made similar things with his own methods when he was young.
When we were schoolboys, we also did memes,
but then we made pirate captain from Arany János in our school reader,
its the same story, and it didnt made Arany János more or less.
It all started with this holiday picture they took in Turkey,
what was discovered by a photographer on the now closed IWIW social network.
He asked András to be a model for a few so called stock photo
those photos are collected in a database, and you can order them to illustrate graphical works,
but some people rather made funny stories form the old pensioner's photos.
Everyone is a bit vain, and I tried to look up, what they use my photo for.
And i found many fully normal uses, I was Hospital Director, I was a Grampa, this and that.
And then i found a page, where they fabricated meme from me.
I wasnt too happy about that.
Few years ago the joy of Zsidró Tamás on the Nagy Duett stages also ispired hungarian meme makers
The joy he showed when he got on in the race was set in many funny situations,
but it didnt escalated beyond the borders.
Arató András István is surrounded with more and more popularity abroad since 5 years,
He even has a fan page in Russia
where he reported in, with a photo and  a sign that says  "I live",
showing his fans he is actually real,
and the same  blood-meat person, like the people making his memes.
The craziness only escalated after this.
Amazing what happened after that. In two  days i had more than 20k followers.
On FB. Not on FB, on its Russian version.
What says the wife all to this?
Because his wife has still hard time to grasp, why András became net sensation.
It didnt really won my favor, i wasnt very happy about it.
I thought it is actually a view on someone's intimate sphere,
almost like interfering.
The meme figure of András received a name, he was called Harold,
and net users imagined underlying pain behind his smile,
and they created Hide the pain Harold
Mr. Arató says, there is no hidden pain, he simply got tired smiling during the shots.
You had to smirk like this for long seconds
I saw myself, that this is not my own natural face,
and people explained i am hiding some inner pain.
Mr. Arató likes some of the memes, but there are others he finds distasteful,
but sadly he cant do anything aginst them.
His photos almost have their own live on the internet,
but he also have favourites.
They mounted my face where the US presidents are carved in rocks,
I liked that and I found it expressively jolly,
despite im making a pathetic face,
but thats why its funny.
During the takes, he posted something on his Russian fanpage,
saying good day without a photo.
It was liked by 802 people within a hour, after a day it bellied up to 1449.
Andárs doesnt understand his fans,
at first he wasnt happy about it,
now he accepted, that he unwillingly became a world star at age 70
You can not drop out now, you have to take responsibility.
[Hungarian pensioner becomes net hit]
