Awkward Family Photos Site Profile

Website: http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/
Monthly Traffic: 654,771 visitors (as of 8/3/09)
Description: incredibly awkward family photos, updated often Similar Websites: stuffwhitepeoplelike.com, icanhascheezburger.com, thisiswhyyourefat.com

Awkward Family Photos is a meme blog in the vein of This Is Why You're Fat and I Can Has Cheezburger? Like those sites, the key to Awkward Family Photo's success is in its simplicity -- the site's editors, Mike Bender and Doug Chernack, sift through user-submissions and post the most hilariously awkward family photos and stories.

Everyone's got a family photo they wish was never taken -- be it one where the family is gleefully but inexplicably holding a snake or one where everyone in the photo has horribly regrettable 1980s hair cuts. Awkward Family Photos is a place to retreat from that personal embarrassment so you can, instead, laugh at other people's horrible family photos. Because, as the saying goes, there's always someone worse off than you. And that someone probably has his photos on display at AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com.

It's that simplicity (and the fact that literally EVERYONE has a bad family photo, many of which are pouring into the site) that has led Awkward Family Photos to a popular must-read that's going to make the leap from the web to its own book from Random House.