What do these names have in common?
They have all, at some point, been known as the Internet s Boyfriend.
Now, the latest celebrity to join the ranks of the Internet Boyfriends is Christopher Meloni.
Yes, Christopher s Meloni s signature character, Elliot Stabler, has returned to
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and the internet, quite frankly, can t handle it.
But before we get into the internet s latest obsession, let us take you back to the rise of the Internet Boyfriends:
What is an Internet Boyfriend ?
The Internet Boyfriend is essentially an upgrade to the Hollywood Heartthrob .
While Hollywood Heartthrobs like Brad Pitt and Chad Michael Murray dominated the posters on our walls in the 1990s and the 2000s, Internet Boyfriends infiltrate our lives in a very different way, taking over our social media feeds in the form of memes and endless fan pages.
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back bedroom something was missing. the computer tower itself was gone, so that alarmed me right off the bat. why would a killer steal only the computer? to me that clearly showed very quickly that there s a computer angle on this crime. there s an internet angle on this crime. on the night of the murders, investigators discovered fred and rebecca were seen together in a bar called arnie s, a regular hangout of theirs. witnesses say they were with a man no one at the bar had seen before. they described him as a really tall guy. he was well over 6 4 , 6 5 . she s introducing him that night that this is my new internet boyfriend. witnesses say fred looked tired and disinterested. it seemed pretty apparent to the patrons in the bar that fred wasn t very enamored with the date rebecca was bringing.
missing. the computer tower itself was gone, so that alarmed me right off the bat. why would a killer steal only the computer? to me that clearly showed very quickly that there s a computer angle on this crime. there s an internet angle on this crime. on the night of the murders, investigators discovered fred and rebecca were seen together in a bar called arnie s, a regular hangout of theirs. witnesses say they were with a man no one at the bar had seen before. they described him as a really tall guy. he was well over 6 4 , 6 5 . she s introducing him that night that this is my new internet boyfriend. witnesses say fred looked tired and disinterested. it seems to the patrons of the bar that knew fred wasn t very enamored with the date