Ryan Gosling Won't Eat His Cereal - a series of Vines created by Internet magician Ryan McHenry - has a special place in the hearts of many at ELLE. It was, quite simply, a stupidly straight-forward concept, executed brilliantly.

Why? We wondered, along with the rest of you. Why won't Ryan Gosling just eat the cereal? as spoonfuls of it were super-imposed over serious clips of the actor. 

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Well, now he has - for the saddest reason possible.

McHenry was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer, in 2013 and he died on Sunday.

In an inexpicably moving tribute posted on Twitter yesterday, Gosling paid tribute to the man who catapulted him into the viral hall of fame.

We'll raise a spoon to that.