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He's Red For An Amazing Reason, also known as He's X For An Amazing Reason or She's X For An Amazing Reason, is phrasal template used in a series of exploitable memes based on a Dan Hentschel comedy video in which his entire body is painted red, beginning with the caption, "He's red for an amazing reason," the reason being that he has worked at Verizon for 10 years. The video was posted in May 2025 and became the subject of memes over the following months as other red or vibrantly colored characters or subjects were attached to a similar caption. The phrase "he's red for an amazing reason" also became a copypasta online, commented under images of subjects who are predominantly one unnatural color.

Origin

On May 3rd, 2025, comedian Dan Hentschel posted a video on social media, including on X / Twitter,^[1] that begins with an image of him wearing full red body paint and a Verizon shirt in front of a Verizon store, captioned, "He's red for an amazing reason." The video goes on to claim that Hentschel is red in celebration of working at Verizon for 10 years. The video gained over 41,000 likes and 863,000 views in four months.

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The image of Hentschel over the caption, "He's red for an amazing reason," became the subject of memes over the following months, inspiring edits and other referential memes.

For example, on July 16th, 2025, Instagram^[2] user scrimpusthecat posted an image of their cat with the caption, "He's purple for an amazing reason," gaining over 3,000 likes in two months.

On July 18th, Instagram^[3] user_kingorangeyt posted a similar meme with the Soggy Cat image, garnering over 55,000 likes in the same span of time.

On September 4th, 2025, X^[4] user @Spacedrake1 posted a screenshot of Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) from Star Trek wearing a blue outfit, writing, "He’s Blue For An Amazing Reason," garnering over 5,700 likes in five days.

On September 8th, X^[5] user @GRUGCEL quoted a post consisting of an image of a person on the left next to an image of a woman whose body appears blue on the right, writing, "she is blue for an amazing reason," garnering over 21,000 likes in a day.

Later that day, X^[6] user @riceshowerfan12 posted a drawing of Rice Shower from Uma Musume as a green bunny, captioned, "She is green for an amazing reason," garnering over 13,000 likes in a day.

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