Help Cheer Up Keanu Reeves

Eleven thousand people think Keanu Reeves might be depressed. And with reason — the man hasn't had a hit movie in years, and his entire acting career can be summed up in one word: Whoa. So when a paparazzi photo surfaced on the Internet featuring an unshaven, mopey Reeves eating a sandwich on a park bench, fans started to worry. Was he sad? Lonely? Bored? Was something actually wrong, or was he just tired? The Internet, as tends to happen, became very concerned.
Did I say concerned? I meant obsessed. The park-bench photo spread everywhere: on gossip sites, on message boards — it even got its own Tumblr blog. People left more than 200,000 comments on the website Reddit.com. Web illustrators Photoshopped Reeves into other sad settings: next to Forrest Gump, surrounded by cats, on the Lost island, in a Lady Gaga video, even next to Stalin and Churchill. Nothing they did seemed to make the actor happy. But maybe this will: Tuesday, June 15, is Cheer Up Keanu Day.
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