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Success Kid
Success Kid (known as Sammy Griner) is an Internet meme about a baby who is clenching his fist while featuring a determined look on his face. It began in 2007 when the baby's mother posted a picture of her son clenching sand in his fist. The image took off virally, and eventually became known as the "Success Kid" meme. The popularity of the image and its subject has led CNN to declare that the child is one of the most famous babies on the Internet and for the family to be invited to speak at a web culture conference at ROFLCon about the challenges of raising a child and protecting that child's brand at the same time. The meme was used by the White House in order to promote immigration reform, and was used by the family of the child to encourage people to donate to the father's GoFundMe page in order to help him get a kidney transplant.
== History ==
Success Kid (real name Sammy Griner) is an Internet meme depicting a baby who is clenching his fist while featuring a determined look on his face. The meme originated when the boy's mother, Laney Griner, uploaded the photograph to Flickr in 2007.〔 According to the boy's mother, the picture shows the boy trying to eat sand. The meme gained initial popularity and was called "I Hate Sandcastles", and eventually grew into the "Success Kid" meme.〔 The style of the meme was that of the "advice animals" meme, where someone is put on a background, given a problem, and giving a solution to that problem. Laney initially disliked the "I hate Sandcastles" meme as she felt it made her son look like a bully, but she embraced the meme when the meme changed.〔 According to Laney, her son gets embarrassed by his association with the meme. After the meme became popular, she opted to license the picture to Getty Images, a stock photo agency. She was eventually contacted by advertising agencies (including one for Virgin Mobile UK) who wanted to use the picture. She discovered that there were too many contracts involved in the process, so she chose to license it herself instead.〔 After a fireworks company chose to feature Success Kid on one of its products, Laney chose to file suit against the company. She took issue both with the fact that they were profiting off of the meme as well as the fact that her son appeared to be endorsing an age-inappropriate product. Laney had licensed out his image for use by other companies however; he appears in an ad for Vitamin Water as well as billboards for Virgin Mobile in the United Kingdom. According to the website Search Engine Journal, the cost Virgin Mobile UK paid to license the image for its advertisements was "significant." In 2013, she hired Ben Lashes, a "meme manager", to represent her son and his likeness.〔 This deal lead to multiple deals with other companies; they signed a deal to have the image put on t-shirts at Hot Topic, it was planned by Radio Shack to have the picture around its corporate offices, and a deal was struck to have him appear on Xbox screensavers.〔
抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』
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