
Later that month, the original stock photograph was shared on Instagram and got almost 30,000 likes. This meme was reposted on an English-language progressive rock Facebook page the next day, and then on Twitter on February 2, 2017. The post labeled the man as Phil Collins, who is being distracted from progressive rock by pop music. The first known use of the stock image as an internet meme was posted to a Turkish progressive rock Facebook group in January 2017. This is not the thing that really worries us, as they are just a group of people doing it in good faith, and we are not going to take any action, except for the extreme cases in which this good faith doesn't exist." Meme
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It's not allowed to use any image without purchasing the proper license in any possible way, so each one of the people that use the images without the license are doing it illegally. The image was uploaded to Shutterstock with the caption: "Disloyal man walking with his girlfriend and looking amazed at another seductive girl." Regarding the copyright status of this image, Guillem has stated that his images "are subject to copyright laws and the license agreements of the microstock agencies. "Laura" later described the experience shooting the stock images, saying: "When people saw us simulate those scenes in the street, they stopped to look and laugh and, in my case that I had to have a more serious face, I had a hard time to keeping it." The boyfriend and girlfriend in the photograph are known by their stage names "Mario" and "Laura".

Guillem told Wired that he and the stock image models planned on having a session which would represent the concept of infidelity "in a playful and fun way".

The stock image was taken in the city of Girona in Catalonia, Spain, in mid-2015 by the photographer Antonio Guillem from Barcelona. The meme has inspired various spin-offs and received critical acclaim. Social media users started using the image as a meme at the start of 2017, and it went viral in August 2017 as a way to depict different forms of disloyalty. The stock photograph which inspired the memeĭistracted boyfriend is an Internet meme based on a 2015 stock photograph by Barcelonian photographer Antonio Guillem.
