Successful Black Man
Added 13 years ago by brian wernette • Updated about a year ago by shevyrolet
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Type: Image Macro
Tags: image macro spinoff stereoptype satire racism advice dog unsuccessful white man 4chan thewordsmithjr
Additional References: Meme Generator
About
Successful Black Man is an advice animal image macro series featuring a photo of a black man dressed in business attire superimposed in front of a brown and beige color wheel background. The jokes typically employ a bait-and-switch format with the top caption appearing to set-up a stereotype about African Americans followed by a bottom caption rendering the phrase innocuous, in similar vein to the Ordinary Muslim Man advice animal character.
Origin
The original photograph of the suit-wearing black man (shown below, left) can be found on the stock photo website ShutterStock[2] under the title "Handsome African American business man dressed in a black suit." According to an anonymous e-mail sent to Know Your Meme staff from the creator of the image macro series, the idea was first inspired by reverse-discrimination discussions at work. Both the template (shown below, right) and original instances were first submitted in several threads on the imageboard 4chan before a page was made on the image macro creation website Meme Generator[1] in 2010.
I am the creator of Successful negro and thought I would fill you in on the exact details. This email address and name are made up as I wish to remain Anonymous, but you may call me Michelle Gellar.
It originated on 4chan and THEN spread to memegenerator.net. I put it on memegenerator only because I grew tired of manually editing the image for each macro or request. I tested the idea in several threads on 4chan and posted the template on several occasions. When memegenerator.net updated their website, I lost access for editing the entry so I just left it to be. (You can still see some white pixels around the man and his suit where I cropped it from the original image, since I wasn't able to upload a corrected version).
By far, the biggest challenge was finding an appropriate character. It took several tries to find the right "negro" but eventually I settled on what now exists. Thanks Google!
Spread
The meme initially continued to spread primarily on Meme Generator and 4chan's /b/ (random) board. On February 25th, 2010, a compilation of notable examples from the series were submitted to the Internet humor site FunnyJunk[9] by user SamuelOak, receiving over 39,000 views and 448 up votes within the next three years. On September 14th, the "Successful Black Man" Tumblr[10] blog was launched, which continued highlighting image macros from the series until November of 2011. On November 5th, a slideshow of "Successful Negro" image macros were published on the Internet humor site Ebaumsworld.[5] On December 28th, BodyBuilding Forums[3] member aaandrew submitted a thread inviting other members to post their favorite examples from the series. On August 31st, the Internet news blog UpRoxx[8] published an article about the series, calling it "borderline offensive, but hilarious." On October 6th, an anonymous 4chan[6] user started a "Successful Black Guy" thread on the site's /b/ board, where it received over 115 responses prior to being archived.
Notable Examples
As of January 2013, the "Successful Black Man" Meme Generator page has received over 26,000 items and the "Successful Black Man" Quickmeme[4] page has accumulated over 40,000 submissions.
Video Adaptation
On January 15th, 2012, YouTuber TheWordsmithjr began uploading videos of himself acting out examples from the image macro series (shown below).
Search Interest
External Referenes
[1] Meme Generator – Successful Black Man
[2] Shutterstock -Handsome African American business man dressed in a black suit
[3] BodyBuilding – Successful Negro Meme
[4] Quickmeme – Successful Black Man
[5] Ebaumsworld – Successful Black Man
[6] Chanarchive – Successful Black Guy
[7] Facebook – Successful Black Man
[8] UpRoxx – Meme Watch Successful Black Man is Borderline Offensive
[9] FunnyJunk – Successful Negro
[10] Tumblr – Succesful Black Man
Entry Editors ( 7 )
Recent Videos ( 20 )
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Kfc Black Guy Rainbow Chicken Dance Original - 10 Hours
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Public Speaking - Cyanide & Happiness Shorts
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Successful Black Man
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Successful Black Man - I Will CUT You
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Successful Black Man - I'm Gonna SHOOT You
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Successful Black Man - They See Me ROLLIN
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Successful Black Man - Yea... I Took Advantage Of Her
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Successful Black Man - Free OJ
Recent Images ( 267 )
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Feel the blood gushing from your frog specimen.
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I wonder how this man is doing...
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I got flow
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I'll Bust a Cap
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Success...?
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It's Fine, Chris Hansen
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¿Felices ahora? *ñ *é
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Successful Black Man speaks
Comments ( 62 )
I remember a few HUGE threads in /b/ with this guy. Nothin' but this guy over and over again.
Expand the article a bit and talk about how it caters to /b/'s love of racism.
+1 confirm
definite +1 confirm
comnfirm but its Seccessful nigger
seen it around meh +1 confirm
funny +1 confirm
it's too early too comfirm this,
so here's a +1 work!
Hilarious.
Need to work moar on the article.
i think it's a submeme as a spinoff of advicedog
Confirm
+ 1 Work. I've seen this around.
+1 confirm. I don't know a single person who doesn't love successful negro
Needs a lot of work and clean-up. Otherwise, looks confirmable.
+1 Confirm
It is funny and has derivatives which is substantial enough to proclaim meme status.
External Links
-Tumblr
-Funny Junk
These images aren't perfect examples, but they were featured on Funny Junk on February 25th, 2010.
Koolboy.. shut the hell up with your ignorant racist ass. Other than that this meme is hilarious.
http://memegenerator.net/Successful-Negro
+1 confirm
+1 confirm
+1 confirm
hasnt been done yet?
also, it was featured on funnyjunk just a few weeks ago
http://funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/334645/Successful+Negro/
+1
+1 Confirm
+1 Confirmed
Quite the funny meme
hmmmm needs organization, and from funny junk….but…
+1 confirm
1+ confirm
+1 Confirm, I've seen a LOT of successful negro.
GET THIS CONFIRMED ALREADY!
+1 CONFIRM
U know u live in the ghetto when those of the African American descent feel the need to comment on just how white you are.
Meanwhile THEY are the ones in a car.
Shouldn't this be labeled as an Advice Dog sub-meme?
Regardless, +1 confirm
successful negro is successful
i think most image contributions here are done in "good taste" (as strange as it sounds). pls keep them awesome by doing it right, thaaaaanks^^
definite +1 confirm
this is hilarious lol
maybe my favourite advice dog spinoff
Spinoff? Like the way Harry Potter is a spinoff of The Bible? Do you know what the word spinoff even means?
Confirm
+1 like
I made this one, add it cause its pretty funny. http://tiny.cc/a1c5f
The article needs some cleaning, but the meme is hilarious.
i like this one
+1 Confirm. Obvious Meme is Obvious
+1 confirm.
i lol'd. hard.
Nice job, Brad Kim!
Another one in the bag.
"Your mother satisfied me many times last night…. with her excellent job performance." That last bit doesn't improve it at all. It still sounds like she's a whore. _
It bugs me, though, how most blacks look down on successful blacks. Somehow it's bad? Maybe if the rest of you made your own money instead of waiting for the liberals to give you the retribution they promised you forever ago (and still haven't delivered), you would be able to afford all the stuff you want. :P
That random white guy pic is a total C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!!!!!!!!!
Yo Momma-
Is a great babysitter, I tipped her $40!
+1 confirm
Confirminate
Eh, kinda racist but still funny, confirm I guess.
love it
Extraordinary +2 epic.
Kudos to the creator for not coming out for the glory and nice job on the pic as well.
Just got this error on the "These streets are mine" one http://i.imgur.com/uGFr1.png It's almost poetic in a way.
This is great. +1 Confirm
Gets me every time +1
@BlackJosephDucreux, it's not racist. It's parodying black stereotypes.
I love how "successful negro" died out while "successful black man" lived.
Successful Black Man sounds way funnier than Successful Negro.
Now that i think about it, this is kida racist.
What, was "Successful Negro" too risky to be the name of the article or something? Give me a break.
@ender1200
>kinda racist
The epic is over 8999!
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great & funny
Spinoff? Like the way Harry Potter is a spinoff of The Bible? Do you know what the word spinoff even means?
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