Sammy Griner’s image is one of the internet’s most popular memes

The boy featured in one of the internet’s longest-running and most popular memes is using his fame to help his dad get a new kidney.

The triumphant toddler with his fist clenched in victory – known as Success Kid – is Sammy Griner, now eight years old.

And Sammy, who has brought internet users so much amusement, is now asking for something in return: for someone to donate a kidney to his father, Justin, and to help fund treatment.

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Justin is currently spending 12 hours a week at the dialysis clinic (Picture: GoFundMe)

‘I thought what a positive boost it could bring to our fundraising efforts for people to know this is for the father of the baby who has made so many people smile,’ said Justin’s wife, Laney, who admitted she was reluctant to bring up her son during the fund-raising.



Laney set up a GoFundMe page, on which she sets out how her 39-year-old husband needs pre-treatments and a transplant to avoid the same fate as his mother, who died from kidney disease.

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Sammy Griner, AKA Success Kid, is now eight

In an email to the Daily Dot, she spoke of the family’s hunt for a donor and how Justin spends 12 hours a week in dialysis clinic.

‘We’ve had several friends and family offer and get tested to be donors, but no match so far,’ she said.

‘We certainly prefer a living donor because the prognosis seems to be much better.’

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