Success Kid I Hate Sandcastles Analysis

Success Kid

Technology has become a great accomplishment in today’s times. It provides us with the possibility of having communications with the ones we love that are long distance, near or individuals we admire and just want to keep up with. Although it provides lots of possibilities, if we do not control what we upload onto the internet, with just a blink of an eye, our information can be taken from us and transported to the opposite side of the globe without us even knowing. In her article “who is this Man, and why is he screaming?” Kadish tells the story of her cousin, Naom Galai. After posting a self-portrait to the photo-hosting website Flickr (flickr.com), Galai found that people around the world had, without his knowledge or permission,

In his article “Success Kid/I Hate Sandcastles” by Greg McCoral, he describes how the original image of 11 month old Sammy was turned into an advice animal style image macro with captions describing a situation that goes better

If we are succeeding, we share with the world our success by portraying images of happiness and if we are frustrated to, we show the world we are frustrated with images that portray frustration. The image of “Success Kid” has served for many variety of purposes. When looking at the image, it cannot really be told if the baby is happy or frustrated; well of course, he is just a baby exploring nature by eating sand. As many of us would do, the mother of 11-month old Sammy wanted to capture the moment by taking the picture of her little ones expression eating sand. Mrs. Griner was not really expecting this when “she posted the image to both her personal Flickr account and put it up on Getty Images. The picture was reaction image of a baby at a beach with a smug facial expression. It has been used in image macros to designate either success or frustration. In early 2011, the original image was turned into an advice animal style image macro with captions describing a situation that goes better than expected. As early as January 2008, users on social networking sites like MySpace began incorporating the photo of Sammy into their profiles, either as their avatar or as part of the page’s layout. It was often paired with the phrases “Ima Fuck you up” or “I Hate Sandcastles””, (McCoral web). With the smug on his face like that, the picture came to have a double meaning. A lot of