What Is Story Behind 241543903?

That's something you could look up right now on the internet and see pictures of people doing just that! Isn't that insane? For some time now, people have been putting their heads in the freezer. But how did this all begin?

241543903 Meme History

David Horvitz, an artist most known for (apart from the 241543903 crazes) launching a subscription to his daily images of the sky, created this phenomenon in 2009 on the social networking site Tumblr, according to an article published by Jay Hathaway of urlesque.com.

On his Tumblr blog at the time, Horvitz would issue strange, yet Mylinh Nguyen, a sick acquaintance of Horvitz's, was asked to try putting her head in a freezer by Horvitz to relieve her pain. His refrigerator serial number and barcodes for edamame and soba noodles were combined to come up with the number that Horvitz used.

Final thoughts

Horvitz uploaded the first of the 241543903 photos to his Flickr account on April 6, 2009, only a few days before he published the tutorial. 

Until this week, the "head in a fridge" meme had mostly vanished from the social media landscape, having gained a hold on Orkut in 2009, spreading to Japan, and then making its way to Facebook in early 2010. A Tumblr post resurrected the meme and received more than 3,333 likes and reblogs.