Jeremy Meeks shot to viral fame in 2014 when his mugshot started doing the rounds on social media and he was dubbed the 'world's hottest felon'.
A modelling career followed when he was released from prison in 2016, but the fresh tides of content of the internet largely swept him out of the public consciousness as new things pushed themselves to the forefront of people's attention.
However, Meeks didn't just fade away as he secured a career as a model and he still works as one making appearances where he does what the kids these days call 'serving face'.
He still looks pretty similar to the way he did over a decade ago when his mugshot went viral, it's still the same face and he's appeared at all sorts of fashion shows over the years in his work as a model.
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A couple of years ago he also wrote his memoir Model Citizen: The Autobiography of Jeremy Meeks, and he also does charity work with underprivileged youths to try and help them avoid crime and gang culture.
Recently he appeared on the Inside True Crime podcast where he spoke to Matthew Cox about the impact the mugshot catapulting him to fame had on him while he was still in prison.
Meeks told the podcast he didn't have social media so when he was told he'd gone viral he didn't really understand what that meant, but he now had news channels coming in to try and speak with him.
Saying he didn't 'understand fads and social media', he started realising the extent of his fame when he saw his mugshot on various TV screens, which was only the beginning of the attention he got.
"I would say on the third day, that's when just... floods and floods of letters from all over the world. I was probably getting 300 letters a day," he explained of being inundated with messages.
Meeks said he was being sent 'naked pictures' and 'money orders' and it was 'too much' so he couldn't even read through everything he was being sent and started passing the pictures around.
"Then the hate came from the correction officers," he told the podcast.
"Because it's a State case and in state there now can be press in the courtroom. In State every time I went into the courtroom there was 100 reporters and everyone was fighting each other for better angles and the judge is screaming.
"It was like a zoo in there. I had been to court 100 times and it was never like this."
Meeks claimed correction officers 'were beating the s**t out of him for a while' and he was 'angry' with them for a while, though he said he never had issues from his fellow inmates and if there ever were incidents he had 'always been the aggressor'.
He also said it was 'so frustrating' when people he didn't know would try and visit him in prison as they were taking up visiting time that could otherwise have gone to his family.
Joe Harker