Imgur user has a perfectly good reason for Photoshopping Michael Cera
Many great artists have been inspired by their beloved muses throughout history. During Pablo Picasso’s surrealist period, for instance, his favorite model (and mistress) was a young Frenchwoman named Marie-Thérèse Walter. Alfred Stieglitz was likewise infatuated with Georgia O’Keeffe. Robert Mapplethorpe found an ideal subject in musician Patti Smith. And now, as reported by The Daily Dot’s Nayomi Reghay, an Imgur user has found the perfect muse for the 21st century: eternally gawky Superbad and Arrested Development star Michael Cera, specifically one particular photo of the actor in his regrettable “red woolen hat and skeevy-looking mustache” phase. The actor’s image has already proved endlessly malleable, as evidenced by the beloved “Prancing Cera” meme of 2010. But the “Imgurian” in question, whose account is modeslty titled A New Badly Photoshopped Photo Of Michael Cera Everyday, actually has an admirable agenda behind his Cera-based visual tomfoolery. It’s all about education and self-improvement.