Former President Barack Obama used the “Success Kid” meme in 2013 to promote immigration reform, an issue Griner says she supports. They also obtained her permission first, she adds.

At issue in the lawsuit is a meme showing Sam — now superimposed over a background of the U.S. Capitol — urging King supporters to "fund our memes." It linked to a fundraising web page for King.

On Monday, King and his campaign for reelection to the House of Representatives received a cease-and-desist letter from the attorneys of Laney Griner, the mother of 2011’s most ubiquitous meme ...

BuzzFeed Video sat down with Sam, the sand-clenching baby we’ve seen a million times before, who’s now a teenager with actual thoughts and feelings about having a picture of him as a toddler ...