--- title: A Man's Love of Ice Cream Photos Go Viral description: A man's love story with ice cream is going viral after he decides to photograph himself with every plastic ice cream cone he finds canonical: https://time.com/4884104/viral-guy-with-ice-cream/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-02T16:02:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:46:05.487Z og:title: A Man's Love of Ice Cream Photos Is the Greatest Love Story og:description: He is documenting his love of plastic ice cream cones one photo at a time og:url: https://time.com/4884104/viral-guy-with-ice-cream/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt74e03dda72381ecc/6988d5dffb4eac5f60892ed9/ice-cream-popular-flavors.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5616 og:image:height: 3159 og:image:alt: Ice cream cones og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: A Man's Love of Ice Cream Photos Is the Greatest Love Story twitter:description: He is documenting his love of plastic ice cream cones one photo at a time twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt74e03dda72381ecc/6988d5dffb4eac5f60892ed9/ice-cream-popular-flavors.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Guy's Commitment to Photos With Ice Cream Is the Greatest Love Story Known to Man > Sponsored content. 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Getty Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Aug 2, 2017 4:02 PM UTC The greatest love of all is not a mother for her child or two spouses for each other, nor as Whitney Houston suggested, is it learning to love yourself. Instead, the greatest love is one man and his determination to document every single plastic [ice cream](http://time.com/4880503/coles-ice-cream-sandwich/?iid=sr-link1) cone. Jason Wong spotted plastic ice cream cones outside various shops while he was on vacation in Japan and decided to document each and every one. “Japan is known for their style of quirky decorations and attractions … but I realized that no one is really talking about the ice cream cones,” Wong told [radio station 1010 WINS](http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/08/01/guy-goes-viral-plastic-ice-cream-cones-pics/). Wong set out on a mission to snap a photo with ever plastic ice cream cone he saw during his trip and posted the portraits to [his Twitter account](https://twitter.com/EggrolI). When people realized the magnitude of the project and the depth of his love for taking photos with plastic ice cream cones, they started to follow along. Soon enough, Wong and his ice cream cone photography project were going viral. While Wong’s ice cream cone portraiture has slowed down since he returned to the U.S., other [ice cream](http://time.com/money/tag/ice-cream/?iid=sr-link2) enthusiasts have picked up the mantle. Soon plastic ice cream cone [selfies](http://100photos.time.com/photos/bradley-cooper-oscars-selfie?iid=sr-link2) will be the new planking, or something. > [](https://twitter.com/EggrolI/status/882441531960967168) > [](https://twitter.com/EggrolI/status/882504106534813696) > [](https://twitter.com/EggrolI/status/882617466613972993) > [](https://twitter.com/EggrolI/status/882488465786519552) > [](https://twitter.com/EggrolI/status/882866749502242817) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4884104/viral-guy-with-ice-cream/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4884104/viral-guy-with-ice-cream/"},"headline":"Guy's Commitment to Photos With Ice Cream Is the Greatest Love Story Known to Man","datePublished":"2017-08-02T16:02:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:46:05.487Z","description":"He is documenting his love of plastic ice cream cones one photo at a time","url":"https://time.com/4884104/viral-guy-with-ice-cream/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","photography","food and drink"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt74e03dda72381ecc/6988d5dffb4eac5f60892ed9/ice-cream-popular-flavors.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt74e03dda72381ecc/6988d5dffb4eac5f60892ed9/ice-cream-popular-flavors.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Ice cream cones","caption":"Ice cream cones","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4884104/viral-guy-with-ice-cream/","name":"Guy's Commitment to Photos With Ice Cream Is the Greatest Love Story Known to Man"}}]}] ```