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[10] Guy
"[10] Guy (also known as " Really High Guy " and " Stoner Stanley ") is an advice animal image macro series featuring a photo of a young man who app..."
[10] Guy [10] Guy (also known as " Really High Guy " and " Stoner Stanley ") is an advice animal image macro series featuring a photo of a young man who app... First appearing in 2011, this meme has become part of internet culture.
About
About[10] Guy (also known as " Really High Guy " and " Stoner Stanley ") is an advice animal image macro series featuring a photo of a young man who appears to be under the influence of marijuana . The captions typically portray stereotypical stoner behavior, similar to Stoner Dog , such as giving invalid answers to misunderstood questions and craving junk food. In April 2021, UK-based resident Connor Sinclair revealed himself to be the man depicted in 10 Guy after nearly a decade of anonymity.
Origin
OriginOn November 25th, 2011, Redditor randomdave posted a photo of a red-faced young man (below left) to the marijuana enthusiast r/trees subreddit titled "Being at a [10] is not always pretty." [10] The same day, the picture was submitted by redditor Ahahaha__10 with the caption "Texts the person next to them / 'I want hopsital'" (below right) in a post titled "The happened to a friend of mine on his first ever bong rip." [1]
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Etymology of [10]
The name is derived from the scoring system used by members of the r/trees [16] subreddit, also known as βentsβ, that indicates the relative level of intoxication with [1] being the lowest and [10] being the highest.

Spread
SpreadShortly after Redditor Ahahaha__10 submitted the first image macro, Redditor vivalocaaa created a Quickmeme [3] page using the photo called "[10] Guy." On November 30th, 2011, a post [5] titled "10 Guy ordering a cheeseburger" reached the front page of Reddit, accumulating over 3,000 up votes within 6 days.

On December 2nd, compilations of "Really High Guy" examples were posted to the Body Building [6] forums and the Internet humor site BuzzFeed . [7] On December 5th, a slideshow of [10] Guy image macros was posted to the media hosting site Sharenator [8] titled "High High Schooler." On March 31st, 2012, additional photos of [10] Guy surfaced on the "Stoner Comics" [12] Tumblr blog.



On April 6th, 2012, several examples were posted to the Internet humor site Ebaumsworld [11] by user yzman87.
The meme continued to spread on sites like FunnyJunk [13] , Memebase [15] and Tumblr under the tags "10 guy" [4] and "really high guy." [9] As of April 20th, 2012, the Quickmeme page has over 10,400 submissions and a Facebook [14] page for "10 Guy" has 133 likes.

Identity
In early April 2021, UK-based resident Connor Sinclair revealed himself to be the man depicted in the 10 Guy meme after nearly a decade of remaining anonymous online when he created the Twitter account @10GuyOfficial. On April 11th, 2021, Sinclair then tweeted [23] an image of himself holding up the account name on a sheet of paper, confirming his identity (seen below).

On May 6th, 2021, Sinclair uploaded a video to his YouTube [24] channel where he spoke about his role in the meme and revealed himself as the person depicted in 10 Guy (shown below).
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[10] Guy (also known as " Really High Guy " and " Stoner Stanley ") is an advice animal image macro series featuring a photo of a young man who app...
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