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Could This Be the Death of Fail? The Rise of SucceedBlog

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SucceedBlog is an overnight SUCCEED. “It’s totally picking up steam,” says co-creator David Littlejohn, who launched the website yesterday afternoon. This morning, he and co-creator Jim Haas with “web ninja” Mark Neigh woke up to a staggering 20,000 hits. SucceedBlog is the counter-site to FailBlog.

As you can guess, instead of highlighting life’s failures by matching tragically embarrassing photographs with the word “Fail,” the site uses the word “SUCCEED” to celebrate moments of unparalleled human achievement. Like this one dude who is particularly talented at stacking Legos.

“Everybody wants to see ‘succeeds,’ everybody wants to see people succeed, our country succeed. It’s just a lot more positive,” Littlejohn explains. “It’s always funny — since the beginning of time, I imagine — to see someone kicked in the nuts, or fall down, or trip. You’re just going to laugh at that. There’s something a lot more inspiring in succeeding.”

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