In important celebrity news: Ryan Gosling is wearing a t-shirt of Macaulay Culkin wearing a t-shirt of Ryan Gosling wearing a t-shirt of Macaulay Culkin.

It’s the inception of celebrity selfies and a tad confusing so we’re going to take this ‘meta’ t-shirt trend from the top.

22 March, 2013: Ryan Gosling wore a photo of Macaulay Culkin from his Home Alone days:

12 May, 2014: Then came a photo of Macaulay Culkin wearing a t-shirt of Ryan Gosling wearing the t-shirt of Macaulay Culkin.

13 May, 2014: Internet steps in and takes it up a notch. Someone then Photoshopped (we think? Unless Ryan Gosling printed a new t-shirt within 24 hours?) Ryan Gosling wearing a t-shirt of Macualay Culkin wearing the t-shirt of Ryan Gosling wearing the t-shirt of Macualay Culkin. Is anyone else’s head hurting?

15, May 2014: Internet strikes again, makes a memerising gif turning it into the inception of celebrity selfies.

What will happen next? Will Ryan Gosling wear another t-shirt? Who knows. While we wait with baited breath, let’s kill time by flicking through a gallery of Ryan Gosling being Ryan Gosling.

Ryan Gosling with his mum Donna

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@ghadamaysoufan Ryan Gosling and I AHHH #bestdayever

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That scene from The Notebook

A scene from The Notebook

In The Notebook

On the cover of New York magazine

Is Ryan the next George Clooney?

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On the cover of GQ

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Ryan Gosling in the poster for his new movie

With Emma Stone, his co-star in Crazy Stupid Love

Gosling with Michelle Williams, his co-star in Blue Valentine

Ryan dated The Notebook's Rachel McAdams for three years from 2004

Ryan dated Sandra Bullock for a year in 2001.

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At the screening of Drive at Cannes Film Festival

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