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One fateful day in 2010, Keanu Reeves sat down on a bench in New York to enjoy a sandwich. The actor looked absolutely miserable at the time. A nearby photographer snapped a photo of the star, and thus began the history of the Sad Keanu. 

While memes can live and die in a single day thanks to the breakneck pace of the internet, few have managed to make as big an impact as the Keanu Reeves meme. Upon first discovery, the joke was quickly picked up by hundreds of thousands of people, up until the DMCA began issuing takedown notices to prominent meme pages. Even compared to past Keanu memes, this one grabbed the attention of the public in a way that was absolutely unprecedented. 

 The first meme occurred on June 3, 2010, when Reddit user rockon4life45 created a thread titled "Keanu. More sadness in the comments." 

The thread instantly took the internet by storm, garnering 281,000 views and rocketing straight to the front page of Reddit. 

After experiencing explosive popularity on Reddit, Keanu memes began popping up all over the internet in the summer of 2010. By the second week of June, online news outlets such as Buzzfeed began documenting the phenomenon. 

On June 10, the Tumblr account "SadKeanu" was launched, creating a space for meme makers across the globe to come together and share their work. The joke reached an apparent critical mass on June 14, when the website SadKeanu.com opened its virtual doors.