Angry German Kid: How Memes Nearly Ruined His Life

One of the first viral videos to bubble up on YouTube was the “Angry German Kid”. You have seen it; It features a young German board smashing his keyboard while playing a game of unreal tournament. While most are familiar with the video, few actually know what happened to the kid who was in the video. It turns out that becoming a living meme wasn’t an entirely positive experience for him, and he disappeared from the internet for over a decade. Today I am going to explain the origin and spread of the Angry German Kid video, and also talk about what happened to the videos mastermind.