What Happened to ‘Emo Dad’?
Key Highlights In August 2009, a 46-year-old man posting as CrisXcruX uploaded mirror selfies wearing eyeliner to MySpace, inadvertently launching a viral phenomenon. Within three weeks, internet communities rechristened him “Emo Dad,” turning his photos into widely circulated image macros. Within two years, he became one of the most recognizable faces of the image-macro era, ...