Hide The Pain Harold

András István AratóNote: His name is Arató András István in Eastern name order. (born: ), better known online as Hide The Pain Harold, is a Hungarian electrical engineer who is best known for his face, which became a widely acclaimed internet meme.
==Personal life==
András was born in 1945, in Kőszeg Part of the then Kingdom of Hungary. Shortly after his birth, Hungary became communist under the Second Hungarian Republic, András was later conscripted into the Hungarian Peoples Army.https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/nnr8om/hide_the_pain_harold_arat%C3%B3_andr%C3%A1s_in_his_young/ However, in 1969, he graduated from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and became an electrical engineer, before working for five years as a DJ, and then became a stock image model. His other jobs include starring in the Hungarian remake of Masked Singer, called Álarcos Énekes. At some point he married Gabriella Andrásné Arató; they reside in Budapest with their son.
He has a cat, Grecko.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d2WUd5w47s
==Content==
András' first video was an upload of a Hungarian news station reporting on his fame and interviewing himhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvcKW8El8MU ( the video was entirely in Hungarian, though the captions were in English). In the interview Andras explained how he, on a vacation to Turkey, uploaded several photos on a website called iWiW, and though his friends didn't pay much mind to them, he was later contacted by an agency asking him to be their stock photo model. When he later found out that he was a meme, he did a Q&A with his fans.
His YouTube channel is dedicated to talking about himself, doing tutorials on how to mimick his facial expressionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93BQsrFzo3o from his fans and answering Q&As. His earliest vlogs were about him travelling to different parts of Budapest, namely Zugló district,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xon5857-hpA Gellért hill,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqBySZl3YcY Danube river,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2pPLfST9zU Keletei railway,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=limh3UPncqc the Hungarian Parliamenthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neuwToLO_g8 and its tunnels,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neuwToLO_g8 Kossuth square,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMO1c-Tt_FA Turkish Budapesthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhEw6p82dmw and the Esztergom Linehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_tIvFL1flY in a series known as "Grandad Harold's Budapest insider". He would also make storytime videos and make messages for his fans, while showing his artwork too.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twYEDUPSI6c In 2017, he made a video about his favorite Christmashttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgM5En97ZPM gifts.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcztL8zdDAs
In 2020, he started a series of vlogs entirely in Hungarian called "Hide the pain Harold: A könyv".
==Quotes==
*"It's not really me. It's a role given to me by the internet people" 
==Trivia==
*His native tongue is Hungarian but once he became an internet meme, he learned English to communicate more effectively with his fans.
*Though initially offended at being a meme, he realised he did similar things while he was in school, like drawing on pictures in his course books of the Hungarian poet , making him look like a pirate.
*Internet Historian uses his face as his YouTube icon. He even left a comment under Andras's TED TALK.
==Gallery==
Hidethepainharold 10.jpg|Young András working as an electrical engineer
Hidethepainharold 11.jpg|In the army
Hidethepainharold 9.webp|Him and his wife
Hidethepainharold 12.webp|Giving his TED Talk
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Hidethepainharold 8.jpg|He finds a monolith
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==References==
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