The term also refers to a specific Gigachad who became the subject of an internet meme, a Russian resident model of unknown (possibly of Azeri or Caucasian) descent, by the name of 'Ernest Khalimov' or Halimov, whose heavily edited pictures went viral in 2017 after being posted on the /pol/ imageboard of 4chan.These edited pictures of Khalimov were apparently created as part of an 'art project' aimed at achieving the 'liberation of the male body' and 'changing the discrimination of the art canon against the nudity of the stronger sex' by the Russian photographer Krista Sudmalis. Other heavily edited models created by Sudmalis are also frequently depicted as 'Gigachads' by internet users.