The Cooler Daniel

About

The Cooler Daniel refers to a photograph of a school yearbook featuring a person named Daniel appearing in two side-by-side pictures and wearing sunglasses in one of them, captioned "The cooler Daniel". The pictures have since gained popularity used as an exploitable, with "The cooler Daniel" serving to illustrate an upgraded version of "normal" Daniel.

Origin

On September 24th, 2013, 9GAG^[1] user demonmonkeys uploaded a photograph of a school yearbook page featuring a person named Daniel, presumably a teacher, appearing in two side-by-side pictures, captioned "Daniel" and "The cooler Daniel." The image gained over 22,900 points in six years.

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In the following days, a cropped version of the image was uploaded to Pikabu^[2] and /r/funny^[3] subreddit, gaining over 1,400 and 2,900 points, respectively.

In the following years, the image gained significant popularity online as an exploitable, with "The cooler Daniel" being used to illustrate a superior version of a certain phenomenon. For example, on January 26th, 2017, Twitter user @OverwatchTXT used the photograph to highlight differences between two skins of Overwatch character Zenyatta, with the post gaining over 880 retweets and 2,100 likes in two years.^[4]

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