Heroes of Popular Memes – Then & Now

We’ve all had hours of fun on the Internet just looking at memes and wasting our lives away behind our electronic device of choice. When these ordinary people got turned into an extraordinary symbol of laughter, their lives changed. Let’s take a look at some meme heroes and what they look like now.

Success Kid
Sammy Griner’s mom posted this picture back in 2007, when Sammy was a wee lad of 11 months old. The buzz generated by the picture brought up enough money to pay for his dad’s kidney transplant, saving his life in the process.

Disaster Girl
While this may look like this girl, Zoe Roth, really likes arson, the picture was actually taken at a training session for local firefighters. Yay, she’s not a real psychopath!

Scumbag Steve
This picture was taken by the mother of Blake Boston, or Scumbag Steve as he’s called now.