3 Actual Faces Behind Ridiculously Famous Internet Memes
1. Sammy Griner — Success Kid
Back in 2008, the innocent act of putting her 11-month-old son’s image online turned out to be a major internet sensation. The “Success Kid” meme is a series of images and with hilarious text about quirky success.
7 years later, Laney Griner launched a crowdfunding page to raise money for her husband’s kidney transplant. Within a week, she was able to raise $88,000.
2. Yao Ming — Bitch Please
The drawing is based on a still shot photograph of Yao Ming; a retired Chinese professional basketball player, captured from a post-game press conference in May 2009. At 0:18 in the video, the athlete is seen making the face after his teammate Ron Artest says something.
This sketch was submitted on Reddit by an artist called “downlow”
3. Kyle Craven — Bad luck Brian
Kyle Craven was a normal guy until his friend shared his funny image as a meme on Reddit. As we know internet and the amount of time we all have, this image became viral overnight.
The images have since become symbol of hilarious bad luck. On the other side Kyle Craven is in fact a lucky guy, he got some good offers from Advertisement companies to let them use his face.
In the age of Internet, you never know what can make you famous 😉
Originally published at broll.yogurtlabs.co on August 15, 2016.
