As much as Mark Zuckerberg complained that the acclaimed 2010 film The Social Network was “hurtful” and manipulated facts about his life story and creation of Facebook, he had to admit that the Oscar-winning film helped turn him into a pop culture hero.

Thanks to the film and the empathetic performance by Jesse Eisenberg, the actor who played him, people even started to like Zuckerberg, said Atlantic writer Derek Thompson in his 2011 piece, How The Social Network saved Mark Zuckerberg.