--- title: This Reddit Hero Knows Exactly How to Throw a Birthday Party description: A Reddit user decided to share quite an impressive photo of his own birthday celebrations, and his post has gone viral. canonical: https://time.com/5243350/reddit-birthday-party/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-04-17T17:02:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:52:14.781Z og:title: Internet Hero Knows Exactly How to Throw a Birthday Party og:description: It's his birthday, and he can make whatever kind of Reddit posts he wants to og:url: https://time.com/5243350/reddit-birthday-party/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Internet Hero Knows Exactly How to Throw a Birthday Party twitter:description: It's his birthday, and he can make whatever kind of Reddit posts he wants to twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Internet Hero Knows Exactly How to Throw a Good Birthday Party According to This Photo  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Apr 17, 2018 5:02 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Apr 17, 2018 5:02 PM UTC For some, [birthday parties](http://time.com/money/5223544/canadian-teen-wins-lottery/) are a chance to bring all your friends from different parts of your life together. For others, like one creative and computer-skilled [Reddit user](http://time.com/5235723/reddit-banned-russian-trolls-facebook-zuckerberg-senate-testify/), birthdays are a chance to create a work of art — and celebrate, well, yourself. In a post shared to the [/r/funny](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/) Subreddit on the internet forum on Monday, user [The\_Argentine\_Pace](https://www.reddit.com/user/The%5FArgentine%5FPace) uploaded an image of a living room and kitchen filled with people hanging out. Well, at first it _looks_ like there are a bunch of guys hanging out. But the more you focus in on the individuals in the photo — sprawled napping on a couch, typing on a computer, downing a beer, chatting over drinks, lovingly petting a cat — the more you realize that they’re actually all the same guy. “Yesterday was my birthday so I threw myself a party,” he captioned the digital art piece. In response to comments, he explained his process further, noting that it took “quite a while.” “I used my phone and it can take a picture by audio, so I’ll say something and it takes the picture,” he continued. He changed clothes and positions for each shot, which is what gives the image its verisimilitude. He added that he’s not very good at Photoshop, so instead used Photodirector and the old-school standby MS Paint; all in, the editing took “about 7 hours.” That’s dedication. He also noted that his birthday was April 15\. Happy birthday, and may all celebrations be as laser-focused on creating an appropriate homage to yourself. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5243350/reddit-birthday-party/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5243350/reddit-birthday-party/"},"headline":"This Internet Hero Knows Exactly How to Throw a Good Birthday Party According to This Photo","datePublished":"2018-04-17T17:02:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:52:14.781Z","description":"No guests? No problem.","url":"https://time.com/5243350/reddit-birthday-party/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","party"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"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/5243350/reddit-birthday-party/","name":"This Internet Hero Knows Exactly How to Throw a Good Birthday Party According to This Photo"}}]}] ```