"Scanlon now works as a video producer for Twitch and hosts a pair of podcasts about Formula One and iconic movies (he's a regular patron of The Roxie). Back in the early 2010s, he was working at a website covering the video game industry called Giant Bomb. During a weekly livestream in 2013, they were playing a game called "Starbound" when one of his colleagues dropped a fairly juvenile double entendre."
""One of those users sent me a message and said, 'Hey, my mom used this meme on Facebook, she has no idea who you are.' That's when I realized it had sort of jumped species from our little video game corner of the internet to the wider mainstream audience," Scanlon told SFGATE over a video call."
Drew Scanlon has lived in San Francisco since 2011 and works as a video producer for Twitch. He hosts podcasts about Formula One and iconic movies and frequently attends The Roxie. In the early 2010s he worked at Giant Bomb, where a 2013 livestream reaction to a colleague's juvenile double entendre produced the Blinking White Guy meme. Fans shared clips and the reaction became a GIF that slowly expanded beyond the gaming community. The meme reached mainstream ubiquity after nearly four years and has amassed hundreds of millions to over a billion impressions, yet Scanlon reports he has been recognized only once.
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