Cruel meme clog your Facebook provender like release from a factory that produces nothing but cunning cats , stock photo , and contempt . mayhap they make you laugh , but it ’s deserving remembering that there ’s a mortal behind every meme – a somebody likePrison Breakstar Wentworth Miller , who just keep out down a particularly foolish meme that lately went viral .
" Today I found myself the subject of an net meme , " write theLegends of Tomorrowactor and screenwriter on hisFacebook pageyesterday . " Not for the first sentence . This one , however , stand out from the rest . "
The meme , shared by the " LAD Bible " Facebook page , contrasts two pic of Miller : one from his buff , shirtlessPrison Breakdays as the tattoo - cover Michael Scofield , and the other from a few years after , when he ’s a bit heavier . As a meme , it should look familiar if you ’re still Facebook supporter with all the wild people you went to high school with . " When you break out of prison and find out about McDonald ’s Monopoly … " read the " joke . " Really cutting , sharp hooey , proper ?
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The second photo is a paparazzo shot that stop up in tab and magazines . In his revealing Facebook post , which you should read in its integrality , the actor explains that he was actually suicidal at the time it was taken .
" I ’ve struggled with depression since childhood , " explains Miller on Facebook . " It ’s a conflict that ’s cost me time , opportunity , relationships , and a thousand sleepless nights . In 2010 , at the abject point in my adult life story , I was looking everywhere for rest period / comfort / beguilement . And I turn to solid food . It could have been anything . Drugs . Alcohol . Sex . But eating became the one thing I could look forward to . Count on to get me through . "
Despite the pain sensation the photograph caused him , Miller writes that he ’s happy the photo is still around .
" The first time I get word this meme kill up in my social media feed , I have to admit , it hurt to breathe , " he write . " But as with everything in life , I get to assign meaning . And the meaning I assign to this / my image is Strength . Healing . pardon . "
The LAD Bible brand an apology to Miller on theirFacebook pagetoday . " We posted two pictures of you last nighttime to our Facebook page , but today we want to say we ’ve get this very , very awry , " they wrote . " Mental wellness is no joke or laughing thing . "
Is there a moral to be learn here ? peradventure to think twice before apportion that barbarous meme in the future – you never know the story behind it . signalise up herefor our daily Thrillist e-mail , and get your fix of the good in food / drink / merriment .
Dan Jacksonis a faculty author at Thrillist Entertainment . He ’s on Twitter:@danielvjackson .
