"Success Kid" is 8-years-old now, and his family is using his popularity to get help with a medical issue.

You're probably familiar with the little boy in the image above, who appears to be making a victorious motion. He's best known as "Success Kid," and just in case this is your first time on the Internet, he's a popular meme (you'll have to find out what a "meme" is for yourself).

That baby—his real name is Sammy Griner—is now 8 (time flies when you're staring at reddit all day). His dad, Justin Griner, is a 39-year-old with kidney disease that caused him to experience complete kidney failure back in 2009. Justin urgently needs a new kidney, but it's not easy to find a living donor. The disease killed Justin's mother and threatens to take his life as well (he's currently on dialysis, but that's not a long-term solution).

His wife Laney told the Daily Dot:

His energy and mood are affected, he can no longer work, and he spends 12 hours a week in dialysis clinic. Having been on dialysis for this long greatly increases his risks of developing further complications. The only way to save his life is to get a transplant. There's no other way around that.

The situation is increasingly desperate, and the Griner family, like many non-meme families, took to the Internet to get help paying Justin's medical bills.

They started a GoFundMe page, and once the Internet found out that it was Success Kid's dad who needed help, the donations went through the roof.

They've raised Success Kid and successfully raised a ton of money. (GoFundMe)

And it seems like a bunch of donors are there because they love Success Kid:

The people behind most memes remain relatively anonymous, so it's pretty interesting to see Success Kid use his Internet fame to get real life assistance, and kind of cool that the Internet feels protective of him and his family.

It makes sense to me though. I'd definitely shell out some cash if Confession Bear's house burned down.

To donate to the Griners' campaign or find out if you're a kidney donor match, check out their GoFundMe page.

The vast majority of borrowers are gonna return their books late, late, late.

To date, there have been approximately 43,750 parodies of Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off" uploaded to YouTube. Believe it or not, that's a conservative estimate. I don't know if this newest one—produced by the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library of Kansas in celebration of National Library Week—is necessarily the best, but it is the first to feature a very quick nod to Madeleine L'Engle's sci-fi classic A Swiftly Tilting Planet. That's something.

Really glad the sketch is funny, because the news clips and ominous music make this seem like a real-life episode of 'Black Mirror.'

That "F#!&ing baby" was an actual baby.
(screengrab from Funny or Die)

We've been had, ladies and gentlemen. Unless you didn't believe it in the first place. I was hoping it was real, but a good comedy sketch that calls out the scary viral-video-chasing media landscape we're currently mired in is the next best thing. Here's the context of the Dennis Quaid rant:

The movie takes place in a world where everything is bright green for some reason.

Is there much here in the way of dialogue or plot spoilers? No, actually, almost none at all. Is this basically just a montage of attractive people talking to each other and acting out imaginary stuff with CGI beings who will be added later? Yes, that's pretty much the entire thing. Did I watch it anyway because I'm a huge nerd with a crush an all these characters and actors? Do you even have to ask?

See also: The 'Avengers' cast played a drunk game of Family Feud and it seems like they started early.

A Norwegian science group attached a doughnut to the edge of a weather balloon and sent it into space.

Hey, NASA! Why can we talk about sending a MAN to MARS, but it takes a group of young people in Norway to do the IMPORTANT work of SENDING A DOUGHNUT TO SPACE? And don't try to tell me "Oh, the first man we send to Mars can take as many doughnuts as he wants!" These people are sending fried dough circles into space NOW while we here in America are all concerned with "rockets," "funding," and "who wants to make the incredible scientific sacrifice of traveling to Mars knowing that he can never return to Earth?" Psh.

I am going to start a PETITION to ask NASA to SEND MORE DOUGHNUTS INTO SPACE and also SEND ME A MATCHING DOUGHNUT FOR EVERY DOUGHNUT SEND INTO SPACE. Please sign it!

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HOLY F-ING WHAT THE HECK NOW HOW DID HE I MEAN HE COULDA DIED HOW WHAT WHO HUH

Sorry, I passed out there for a second. This is a video of Chilean wingsuit pilot Sebastian Alvarez jumping out of a helicopter and smashing through a maybe-five-foot-wide target emblazoned with Chile's flag that's maybe ten feet above a rocky ridge on a dormant volcano. In other words, pretty much every part of this video ends in death if things are a few feet out of place.

I'm not even mad that I almost lost my lunch.

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There's absolutely no denying that this is the most attention ever given to a tweet.

"I had no idea what was about to happen next" (photo via Twitter)

Comedian Nate Fernald is on a roll this week. Just days after claiming he'd been secretly cohosting WTF With Marc Maron, he (on a whim) posted an extremely funny comment on Facebook in response to fellow comedian Jim VanBlaricum's post about the next reboot of the Spider-Man film franchise.

In what can only be described as the greatest grassroots social media campaign for a single tweet, Fernald told everyone on the thread that is the "joke gets ten likes I'm gonna tweet it." 134 likes later, and the tweet was about to be tweeted:

A rare image of the pre-tweet campaign.

Fellow comedian Zach Broussard took the time to make an inspiring appeal to get people excited about the imminent tweet:

Then, at exactly 1:30 PM EST, Nate Fernald made History:

They're relaunching Spiderman AGAIN? More like Repeater Parker.
— Nate Fernald (@natefernald) April 15, 2015

It wouldn't be enough to just tweet the tweet, though. A whole social media hype plan was rolled out, complete with various rewards (if "reward" is the right word for a tweet we've already read) for various levels of engagement:

If it gets 10,000,000 likes he'll actually tell it to a physical human with his voice.

The world was abuzz. Even major celebrities got on board:

Congrats to my friend Nate on this epic tweet "@natefernald: They're relaunching Spiderman AGAIN? More like Repeater Parker."
— Vanessa Bayer (@vanessabayer) April 15, 2015

I briefly had a word with Nate about his success in this EXCLUSIVE Someecards interview:

And today was the day we realized we* wereall in love with Nate Fernald.

*I, Dan Wilbur.

There is a lot of "news" about celebrities. Much of it is dumb. Here are five pieces of this week's stupidest celeb "news."

There's some really important stuff happening here, guys. (via Getty Images / Instagram)

1. Kylie Jenner loves edgy baseball caps.

Like the Blue Man Group, but a woman. And without drums. And with a lot more selfies.
(via kyliejenner on Instagram)

Kylie Jenner is of the Kardashian-Jenner clan. That means that at birth she was outfitted with a monitoring device that sends an alert to People.com every time she changes her clothes. This week her fashion trend was "edgy" baseball caps. Apparently what makes her baseball caps "edgy" is that it they are made out of fabrics not typical for baseball caps. By that logic, I can make a caesar salad with kale instead of Romaine and call it an "Edgy Caesar," which incidentally is also the name of the new sex call-in show I'm launching with the Dog Whisperer.

2. Kim Kardashian wears absolutely no makeup to the gym.

Warning: This video is narrated by a robot and may remind you that we are slowly sliding into a dystopia.

Holy shit, a woman who makes a living based on her appearance knows that you shouldn't wear makeup when sweating because it will cause you to break out! Some "news" outlets (because this has been reported by many, many people) have also noted that "Kim Looks a LOT Different Without Makeup On." That's crazy! The thing I love about makeup is spending all of that money to cover my face with products that leave me looking exactly the same as I did before I put them on.

3. Putting the spotlight on a couple that wants to raise their baby out of the spotlight.

Hey, Jessica and Justin. Hey. Hey. Show us your baby. (via Getty Images)

An "insider" said that Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake are looking forward to raising their baby "out of the spotlight," a quote that obviously deserves an article. Here are some future headlines you guys can use if you want to write about this more in the coming months and years:

• Baby Bielberlake Still Out of the Spotlight
• Hey, Guys, Remember When We Told You That Jessica and Justin Wanted to Raise Their Baby Out of the Spotlight? That's Still Happening.
• Never Forget: 10th Anniversary of Reporting on Not Reporting on the Bielberlake Baby

These should take you up to whenever Bielberlake becomes a model or gets a role in the 37th film in the Divergent series, whichever comes first.

4. Robert Pattinson dances to Drake at Coachella.

Well, we're pretty sure it's Robert Pattinson, but we don't ever see his face. And he dances like all of the awkward boys at my middle school dances.

5. Rihanna goes to dinner without a bra.

This is not a picture of Rihanna out to dinner; it is a picture of her performing on stage. But I'd be OK with her walking into a restaurant like this. (via Getty Images)

Rihanna doesn't wear a bra a lot. She probably goes braless more often than you do laundry. But it's still "news." Here's what E! says about it:

Although concealed by her relatively sheer top, RiRi's nipples could be seen through her shirt. That's definitely a brave look for dinner.

But the "We Found Love" singer has been making some bold statements as of late, including wearing purple lipstick to Coachella.

Hey, E!, I think you might be a little confused about what a "bold statement" is. Try Googling the phrase "Holocaust denier," and then let me know what you think about that purple lipstick.

Also, I'm not posting a picture here for you to ogle at a woman's nipples, but if you want to see the actual sheer shirt picture (which I find to be pretty tame), you can look at it on E!'s site.

Polish cat Rademenes has found his purrfect calling: Helping other animals feel better.

Turn your head and meow. (via Imgur)

Rademenes the cat knows how good it feels to help another creature out — that's why he spends his time curling up with cats and dogs that are in recovery.

It wasn't that long ago that Rademenes was in recovery himself. When he was first brought to the animal shelter in Bydgoszcz, Poland, it was because he had a respiratory infection, and his owners wanted to ease his suffering. But vet Lucyna Kuziel-Zawalich ended up nursing Rademenes back to health. She was surprised when the black cat then started spending his time comforting other animals that were sick or recovering from surgery, curling up next to them or even licking their ears.

CAT, RN. (via Imgur)

Rademenes's desire to provide companionship might be due to the fact that, when he first came to the shelter, he was so ill (and not in the cool, "illin'" way) that he had to be kept separate from the other animals.

Like many things, a nap is better when you share it. (via Imgur)

Is grown-up puppy love just called "dog love"? (via Imgur)

Ricky Gervais tweeted a photo of Utah hunter Rebecca Francis posing with the giraffe she shot and it's gone viral.

What must've happened to you in your life to make you want to kill a beautiful animal & then lie next to it smiling? pic.twitter.com/DyYw1T5ck2

— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) April 13, 2015

This story makes me want to crawl under a blanket with a bowl of kettle corn and never come out.

Rebecca Francis is a sometimes TV personality and hunter. She won Extreme Huntress and once co-hosted another show, Eye of the Hunter. It's not that surprising that she's in the news for killing an animal, but in this instance it's a bull giraffe. Ricky Gervais tweeted the above and the Internet is in a fury over this lady grinning like an idiot next to a dead animal known mostly for eating very high up leaves.

Francis defended her kill, obviously:

I'd respect her more if she just said, "I like killing things, I don't regret killing things for a moment."

Putting an old sick giraffe down, if that is what's happening, seems a lot like euthanizing a sick cat or dog. Necessary, but sad. I wouldn't lay down next to a dead cat's corpse and smile at the camera.

Since this post went up, folks have been suggesting we start hunting the most dangerous game of all: MAN.

@rickygervais@sellis2702 well said!She's sick in the head, we should get someone to hunt her and see how she likes it!

— Bernadette Anders (@bernoggles) April 15, 2015

Unfortunately, even if one social media-friendly blonde lady hunter were decommissioned, there's thousands of poachers and the destruction of natural habitats to pick up the slack killing wild animals. Instead of calling for murder, feel free to find a conservation effort in Africa to send your money to. A real one, not a hunter/conservationist one.

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Yes, well, I think being invisible makes her even more special. (Via Imgur)

Between the pretending to be grown-ups, wearing expensive dresses or rented clothes, trying to look cool, impress your date, and not giving in to the pressure to have The Greatest Night of Your Life, prom was a terrible, awkward, nerve-wracking night for all of us. These people made sure to get photographic proof, and then they put it on the Internet for some reason.

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Guess who's got two dates to the prom…oh. (Via Imgur)

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The guy claims it was the photographer's idea to touch the tree, but the decision to feel up the tree was all his. (Via Imgur)

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This guy needed no such prompt from a photographer. (Via Imgur)

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The ritz isn't gonna put on itself, you know what I'm sayin'? (Via Imgur)

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Pooh Bear is modeling what most guys hope they'll be doing at the end of prom night. (Via Imgur)

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Riddle me this: who's your tailor, bro? (Via Imgur)

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Millennials really, really love Harry Potter. (Via Pinterest)

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To be fair, his prom's theme was "Knife Knowing You." (Via Imgur)

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This sadly ended in tragedy, when due to a booking error at the VFW hall, Deer High's prom was scheduled for the same night. (Via Imgur)

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The girl in the middle perfectly sums up what prom is all about. (Via Imgur)

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The dog perfectly sums up what prom is all about. (Via Imgur)

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That girl on the right is gonna have to work on her form if she wants to get in to a sorority like her friends. (Via Imgur)

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Oh crap, he spotted me. (Via Imgur)

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Were these two voted prom king and prom queen? Naaaaaaay. (Via Imgur)

This fish gasping to death has his revenge on the little boy staring at him in wonder.

Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

The little boy recovers quickly from his fish smack, but the poor animal used his last bit of life force in that grand gesture. In a sweetly contradictory moment, considering the boy and his dad were FISHING, the boy asks if the fish is bleeding because he hurt it. With his head.

No, buddy. You gave him a last hurrah.

These three friends are having a competition to find the people who look most like them, and they're having some success.

Harry, Niamh and Terence gave themselves a month to find their "Twin Stranger," a person who looks so like them they could have grown in the same womb, but to whom they're not actually related.

According to their website, "They say there are 7 people in the world who look exactly like you." Using social media, they're calling for people who think they look like either Harry, Niamh or Terence to come forward, potentially so they can find a doppelgänger on every continent. Why? Unclear. My guess is they just knew talking about how we look and who looks like us gets people excited and their project would get a lot of attention. People have certainly done weirder things for Internet fame.

Whatever is going on, they've had some success! The best they've discovered so far is Niamh's look-a-like, Karen. The two actually lived quite close to each other and were able to meet and stare into their human mirror.

Could this just be a new Dove Beauty experiment where women are asked if someone who looks just like them is beautiful and they say yes, but when asked if they're beautiful, they say no?

"Which one of us is me?"(screengrab via YouTube)

There's no prize for their contest, just pride and knowing for sure that if you're ever accused of robbing a bank you can point to your double and cast some reasonable doubt.

If you gotta share a face, this is a good-looking group.(via Facebook)

Think you look like one of these three? There's still time to get in touch, and maybe find your match. Warning: potential to fall in love with your twin is high, resulting in wacky rom-com antics. Proceed with caution.

Clap along if you feel like happiness is a drone strike on a wedding party full of innocent civilians.

It was just about eight years ago now that a first-term senator named Barack Obama initially started causing problems for the Democratic Party's assumed heir apparent, Hillary Clinton. Prior to that, my progressive friends and I simply took for granted that we'd have to deal with another four-to-eight years of the Clinton's Republican-esque brand of liberalism. Obviously, we were being naive and idealistic when we allowed ourselves to get sucked in by Obama's "Hope and Change" sales pitch, and we've certainly gotten a bit wiser over the course of these past six years of wire-tapping, drone strikes and half-met promises.

What really annoys me, though, is when my conservative friends point to the many disappointments of the Obama administration and ask me how that hopey-changey stuff is working out for me. Yes, I am pissed off, but for the exact opposite reason that they are.

This video released on Anonymous's verified YouTube channel does a pretty good job of expressing my frustration.

FYI: everyone who looks like they're having fun at Coachella is lying because it totally sucks.

Don't be sad. You're not missing out. (via Coachella)

The second weekend of Coachella is about to start. You probably saw everyone's extensive documentation of their ultimate partytimes during the first weekend and are thinking to yourself "HOW CAN I BEAR TO LOOK AT ANOTHER WEEKEND OF ALL THE FUN I AM MISSING?" But fear not, I'm here to tell you Coachella is the worst. Here are all the things your friends are experiencing and choosing to leave out of their photos.

1. Portable Toilets

Smells on smells on smells. (via Portable Toilet Co.)

After spending weeks picking out your finest festival wear, you've finally made it to Coachella! Now try not to dip your feather headdress into a hot plastic box full of what used to be fancy festival food and alcohol. If you think regular port-o-johns smell bad, wait until you experience a hundred of them in a row in desert heat.

2. Festival Attire

A popular coffee table book circa 2065. (via ryot)

Everyone at Coachella creates their own unique style that looks exactly like everyone else's unique style at Coachella, and if you dress like a normal person you are arrested and taken to a holding cell where you're hooked up to a lie detector to find out if you know every band on the roster. It's all very exhausting.

3. These People

Remember when Jimmy Kimmel asked people at Coachella if they knew about made-up bands? This is every single person at the festival and you should be happy you don't have to listen to them talk while you wait for your phone to charge.

4. Your Phone Is Dead

Noooooooooooooooooooooo. (via twitter)

How are you supposed to make people at home jealous of all the fun you've having when your phone is dead? Guess you'll have to get to one of these state-of-the-art charging stations, which serve to either fry your phone or barely charge it. Nothing in between.

5. You might get tongue-attacked by Madonna

Drake didn't seem to like it. You must be wary of a rogue tongue kiss from Madonna. I believe if Madonna kisses you, she steals a year of your life because she wants her arms to live forever.

6. It's So F***ing Hot

Is everyone else sweating as much as me? (via thinkstock)

You know Coachella is in the middle of the desert, right? It's well over 100° Fahrenheit during the day and the sun is as relentless as the glitter in your hair you got from making out with the girl covered in glitter.

7. It's Almost Impossible To Get Drunk

I realize this video of wasted flip-flop guy is probably making you wish you were at Coachella, but I promise you it is hard work getting drunk in the desert. Basically, you sweat out any booze you drink within 20 minutes. So, if you want to get wasted, you have to be constantly drinking.

8. Conflicting Music

I love this band! Also, the band playing at the next stage. (via coachella)

Have you ever been listening to your favorite song on your iPod or Zune music player and someone else's volume is turned up so high it ruins your entire musical experience? Welcome to Coachella.

9. Fire Ants

Fire. Ants. (via tamu.edu)

One time I was camping at Coachella and I woke up to find myself covered in fire ants and the bites itched for weeks and I vowed never to go back to Coachella and that is the reason I made this list.

1. Sarah Palin Exposed To Concept Of Apologizing For Bad Behavior By Louis CK

Comedian Louis CK admitted to Howard Stern's radio audience yesterday that he apologized to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for an infamous stream of drunken, profanity-laden tweets he made to her several years ago. It is unclear whether the conservative politician—who has made countless equally vile comments in the service of her career without ever once seeking atonement—understood what CK was attempting.

Louis Ck is Overrated #OffendEveryoneIn4Words

— Chris cope (@ChrisCopeComedy) February 28, 2015

2. Gisele Bundchen Is Giving Up Being Professionally Beautiful

After two decades as a professional beautiful person, Gisele Bundchen has graced our eyeballs with the wonderful visage of her flawless body and face for the very last time. She plans to spend her time working on projects related to other people's beauty and looking preternaturally stunning for her family.

The highest paid supermodel, Gisele Bundchen is retiring. The model who takes her place is going to have some tiny bikinis to fill

— Eliza Bayne (@ElizaBayne) April 16, 2015

3. New Batman-Superman Movie Looks Like It Will Be As Dark And Depressing As Everyone Was Hoping

Warner Bros. has just released a dark and foreboding teaser for their upcoming film about the contentious relationship between a pair of orphans—one a psychologically disturbed nighttime vigilante, the other an emotionally stunted extraterrestrial. Based upon the tone of this trailer, it looks to be some pretty disturbing stuff.

The new teaser for Batman-Superman is literally an "empty suit." Please go make your own Zack Snyder joke.

— Daniel Kibblesmith (@kibblesmith) April 16, 2015

4. Scientists Finally Crack The Mystery Of Knuckle-Cracking

One of the great mysteries of the universe has finally been solved. Canadian and Australian researchers have used an MRI machine to record the moment that a knuckle "cracks," and have determined that the noise is the result of a bubble of gases, such as carbon dioxide, popping when the finger bones are adjusted, thus disproving the previous prevailing theory that there was a tiny little nuclear explosions being set off inside the joints.

I crack my knuckles before I give someone shit so they know I mean business.

— Baked Potato (@TrueTorontoGirl) February 9, 2015

5. Julius Caesar Might Be Suffering From Strokes On Top Of Being Dead For More Than Two Millennia

New research would seem to suggest that Julius Caesar did not actually suffer from epileptic attacks, as had been widely theorized by historians, but was actually the victim of a number of minor strokes over the course of his life. I hope this doesn't mess up his insurance too badly.

"Ecru, Brute?” - Julius Caesar, Interior Decorator

— Quinn Sutherland (@ReelQuinn) January 22, 2015