ERMAHGERD! The story behind the hilarious meme is very bizarre

At this point you have more than likely come across the internet sensation that is the ‘ermahgerd’ girl.

She became a viral sensation in 2012, and there have been many attempts to recreate the meme, nothing can compare to the original.

However, Maggie Goldenbeger the girl behind the meme had absolutely no control over her awkward teenage photo being posted on Reddit and going viral.

In the photo an 11-year old Maggie is sporting some unfortunate pigtails, an interesting vest and a pretty chic retainer and unruly brow combo. She’s also the proud owner of three books from the Goosebumps series by R.L. Stine, in their original 90s editions.

Vanity Fair recently caught up with Maggie to find out what happened when she discovered her alter ego ‘Berks’:

“I just can't believe this is my 15 minutes of fame—I was hoping it would come in another form. But I guess you have to take what you can get,” the 26-year old said.

When the photo first went viral she was travelling to India and the Philippines with limited internet access. So, when someone she didn’t know found her picture on Facebook and uploaded it she had no idea.

A Reddit user came across it while scrolling through a public Facebook album, he had no idea who Maggie was and didn't know the person who uploaded the photo either.

Maggie said that her internet fame is something she finds pretty funny (ERMAHGERD ERCEBERG is her favourite, FYI) until people tried to track her down.

An online quest to identify ‘Berks’ did cause Maggie some distress: her real name was attached to the pictures. An anonymous internet user found and uploaded a photo of her on a beach in Hawaii in a bikini- it attracted some very nasty comments.

“I have no idea who did that,” she said. “And if I'm going to have a bikini shot floating around on the Internet, I’d like to be spray tanned and under a waterfall somewhere.”

So, was Maggie really that excited about Goosebumps in the first place?

“There were a couple I really enjoyed, but . . . I was not an avid Goosebumps reader.”