Then the photo, along with rough video his buddy took on his cell phone, made its way around the Web and Slavin’s celebrity sighting became an online sensation.

First appearing on the Boston Globe site, the photo has been picked up by celebrity gossip sites all over the Web, including TMZ.com — a site notorious for posting candids of celebrities, often not in their best moments.

Tyler’s stop in Pembroke on Thursday, Aug. 13, was one of his first public sightings since he suffered a broken shoulder after falling from a stage in Sturgis, S.D. on Aug. 5.

In the picture he took with Slavin, Tyler is wearing his arm in a sling.

“I just happened to be in there and he was in there. It was pretty cool,” Slavin said. “I asked him how he was feeling and he said he was doing well.”

Slavin, who recently moved back to Pembroke after spending time in Los Angeles, is a full-time actor in the Boston area. He said Tyler seemed like a “great guy.”

“I do a lot of acting and I’ve met a lot of celebrities, and he’s definitely one of the most humble,” Slavin said. “He was really cool to me.”

Slavin sent the photo to the Globe and to the Express shortly after it was taken, and from there, he said, it just exploded.

“It’s been all over the place. It really happened fast,” he said of both the picture and his buddy’s video, which was posted on YouTube. “I was kind of like, should I pull it down?  I just though it was cool that he had some video and now it has like 80,000 hits.”

Slavin said his run-in with Tyler was all positive and that he felt a little bad seeing some of the comments posted with the picture and video.

The photo has been the subject of several posts on TMZ.com, with comments comparing Tyler’s look to that of Vogue editor Anna Wintour and questioning Tyler’s liquor store run on the day Aerosmith cancelled the rest of its summer tour. YouTube viewers also have had some not-so-nice things to say in their posts.

Slavin said he didn’t want to comment on Tyler’s business and was still struggling with whether he should remove the video.

“I’m still fighting between the good guy on my shoulder and the bad guy — am I going to take it down or keep it up,” he said. “There’s no road map for this stuff. Sometimes you do something and you don’t know what’s going to happen.”

In a way, he said, he “put Pembroke Center Liquors” on the national map.

“I got e-mails from people from all over, from Ohio,” Slavin said. “I don’t think they’ll be shopping down there, but it was all over the place.”

Tyler, who owns a home in Marshfield, was reportedly on his way to a funeral when he stopped by the local store.

The owner of Pembroke Center Liquors was not available for comment, though an employee did say someone from TMZ.com had been calling to dig up some dirt on Tyler’s liquor store visit.