What we haven't seen before, however, is a hacker that looks like actor Chris Hemsworth, People magazine's 2014 Sexiest Man Alive. That's not to say that hackers can't be beautiful, of course.

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Show us THAT hacker next time, O.K., stock photo companies? Show us a real hacker. Oh, and let's all just agree to put a moratorium on the stereotype and stop using the same damn photo.

Slime Ball Alert! Hacker sentenced to 29 months in devious Photobucket image plot “Yes, seduced by money. I will not lie,” defendant tells judge.

But now—“the GIF itself has become the destination.” Part of the reason the GIF survived even after the GIF purge, Eppink thinks, is because it fit the DIY spirit of the early Internet.