The 'Bad Luck Brian' meme sold for $36,000 on March 9 as a piece of digital art. The meme first appeared in 2012. Now it's part of a series of non-fungible tokens containing internet memes and ...

Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio — The phone call that made him famous came at 4 a.m. on Jan. 24, 2012. He was very much asleep. Ring ring. Ring ring. Actually, it vibrated, and because this is a story ...

Yesterday my goal was to help everyone get to the proverbial weekend by introducing the internet to its new hero, a home-brewing Canadian karaoke singer.

He even appeared as Bad Luck Brian in YouTube videos. He claims to have made nearly $20,000 off of the meme, which may not be enough money to live off of, but not bad considering his only cost was ...

And Bad Luck Brian went for 20 Etherium, a cryptocurrency that currently puts the cost of a once-viral high school yearbook photo at about $35,000. 🌐 #MEMECONOMY WEEK 1 🌈 by @NyanCat 6 OG ...

For his part, Kyle’s attempts at monetizing Bad Luck Brian are all pretty true to the spirit of the meme. He tried starting his own YouTube channel but kind of failed. He appeared at conventions ...

Bad Luck Brian, it should be noted, isn’t actually a Brian. The real name of the kid in the photo is Kyle Craven, who was 22 years old and about to graduate from Kent State University when the ...

A popular meme from the early 2010s sold as a non-fungible token for $36,000, according to Foundation, a digital art marketplace. What Happened: “Bad Luck Brian” is a meme that contains an ...

Or, as I explain it when I tell the story, Bad Luck Brian went to my high school. If I get a blank stare in return, I pull out my phone and Google his picture. An Internet-famous face appears.