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- MediaNot held by ViralWorld
A photograph of an eleven-month-old that became the internet's standard picture of a small triumph.
What this was
A meme classified under children.
It first appeared in 2011, during the social era.
It is one of the very few image macros whose subject is identifiable, still living, and still connected to the picture. CNN called Sammy Griner "likely the Internet's most famous baby". The image was licensed for a Super Bowl advertisement, used by the White House to argue for immigration reform, and — when Sammy's father needed a kidney transplant in 2015 — turned by the family into a fundraising appeal that the internet answered.
The Griners have repeatedly had to defend the picture: a fireworks company used it without permission, and in 2020 a congressman's campaign received a cease-and-desist for it. The meme is now a small case study in what happens when a family's snapshot becomes public property.
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Grouped by explicit relationships where evidence exists, and by shared theme otherwise.
What we knowWhere it came from
There is no original upload to identify: this Moment did not begin as one. ViralWorld holds no copy of it either — what it was, when it appeared and what people called it is the record.
Nothing here is claimed to be the first publication of this Moment, because the first publication was not an upload. This Moment began as a photograph, not as a video. Originally published on flickr.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.
- What happens
- A meme classified under children.
- When
- The sources below date the original to 2007-08-31. ViralWorld records this as a cited claim rather than an established publication date, because it holds no copy to check it against.