Ugly Snot Guy

The Ugly Snot Guy is a famous picture meme of unknown origin. The meme itself isn’t so salient, but serves as a part of internet history, and therefore, needs to be handled in a indulgent and careful way.

Background
The origin of this picture remains unknown. In 2006, some blogpost site used the photo, presumably in a humorous way. It later appeared in a compilation of photos on the site UglyFaces somewhere around 2007. In 2009 to 2011, the photo was extremely often posted on message boards. To this day, no exact speculation around the picture has been established.

Rise in popularity
According to google search analytics, the word Ugly Snot Guy had the most searches in March 2009.