‘I like turtles’ zombie boy looks totally unrecognisable 16 years after viral YouTube video

A YOUNG boy with his face painted who went viral for his bizarre response to a TV reporter’s question looks unrecognisable 16 years later.

Jonathan Ware was only 10 when he shot to fame in 2007 after a clip of him professing his love of turtles went viral on YouTube.

In the viral video, a reporter in Portland, Oregon asked him if he liked his face-paint and Jonathan coolly replied: “I like turtles.”

The exchange has been viewed more than 53 million times on YouTube.

Since then, Jonathan began a YouTube channel called ”It’s Turtle Time”, which had 1000 subscribers before he shut it down again.

Having grown up and without face-paint, he now looks completely different.

Jonathan has longer hair and has grown into an adult, a far cry from the small child he was in his famous video.

In his first video on his new channel Jonathan described himself as a teen with “really bad hair” and “an annoying voice”.

Although he is now a YouTube gamer, he still seems to be obsessed with turtles.

In a video shared before the channel shut down, he said hello to his followers with his signature line: “I like turtles.”

The two faces at the centre of another viral video are all grown up, and refrain from biting each other now.

Brothers Harry and Charlie became celebrities after the “Charlie Bit My Finger” video went viral online in 2007.

On 22 May 2007 proud dad Howard Davies-Carr hit record on his camcorder, hoping that he could get some cute footage of his two boys.

The clip started off normal enough, Harry, a toddler, and baby Charlie happily grinned as they relaxed on an armchair at home.

But what happened next changed their lives forever – and as of 2017, it raked in roughly £1 million in royalties and flung the boys into the spotlight.