Society :What a viral picture tells us about child poverty in Africa

The photo has been copied and posted countless times, becoming known on the internet as "Sceptical Third World Child". But with the images and funny captions has come a serious debate about how the Western world views and reports on poverty and African children.
He's wearing dirty clothes and a wry expression, giving the mother of all side-eyes to a woman squatting next to him in the dirt.
         
This image was originally posted to Reddit three years ago by a man in Texas who spotted the amusing photo on the Facebook page of a friend. Since then, it's been copied and captioned countless times. Many of the captions play on a crude stereotype of Africa as war-torn, poor, and suffering constant food shortages:
It's become such a widespread internet meme that BBC Trending wondered - who is the boy? And what does the spread of his picture tell us about the internet's culture and prejudices?

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