Dieunerst Collin, who unwittingly became a meme for his reproachful side-eye as a child, is now a state football champion.
Collin, who did not immediately respond to requests for comment, is now a high school senior and a lineman on the East Orange High School football team, whichHe paid tribute to his childhood internet fame by giving a disapproving side-eye while posing with the championship trophy.video, a 9-year-old Collin uncomfortably glances at the camera while the person recording compares him to Terio, a Vine star who's now a rapper.
that going viral as a young child made him"sad" and that he would"take it as bullying" whenever someone referred to him as Terio because he didn't know he was a meme. "A couple weeks later, I figured out it was me based on the video," he said."I got kind of emotional, cried a little bit. Over the years, I got over it."
Collin said that his meme fame made him a target of bullying from older kids and that as he grew up he had to learn to accept that his virality would precede him."When I was in middle school, I had a couple people say things like, 'You're Terio, you're a meme,' and it was all the high schoolers," Collin said."People in my class found it very funny, so then I just continued being myself.
He said he found being randomly recorded by strangers"very weird," as he is often recognized in public.
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