Ghyslain Raza was 15 years old in 2003, when his two minutes of fame would make him "patient zero" of web virality. He'd filmed himself letting it all hang out in a fixed-shot video. An amateur video. Overnight, it was made public by other students and downloaded millions of times -- long before social media came onto the scene. Suddenly, "sharing" became synonymous with meanness, intimidation, and a mob mentality. Unwittingly, Raza became the "Star Wars Kid." Now, South Park and Family Guy were making references to the teen from Trois-Rivières behind the most famous meme in history. Over the next two decades, Ghyslain built -- or, rather, rebuilt -- his life away from the camera. Today, he is a man with a keen emotional intelligence, and a doctoral student in law. The world has changed since 2003, largely thanks to the rise of social media, the commercialization of personal data, and the relentless memory of the web, which could come back to haunt us at any time. It's a potent fear, and one that leads to questions on the right to control one's own image, and, above all, the right to be forgotten.

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