Looks like her family has just recently found out about the picture on the web. I remember it not having any text on it when it first came out but it has evolved over time.

SOURCE

Six months ago, Liz Crowter discovered that her daughter had become the subject of a particularly nasty Internet meme — and, given the Internet, that's saying something.

A baby photo of Heidi, a now-16-year-old girl with Down's Syndrome, was used to create a highly controversial macro meme known as "I Can Count to Potato." According to Liz, the photo was taken from the website of a local support group for parents of children with disabilities.

And it also made headlines on some news channel in the UK.

I'd never seen the meme, but can imagine that it sucks to know that it is out there. I've never understood humour that makes fun of unfortunate people.

luls potato isnt a number

I hate shit like this, People get all up in arms about something if they really cared about it that much they would of made preventative measures to stop this from happening. Like emailing the photo to the publisher privately or requesting not to show any image on the website.

And people like Nerfy acting like you have never made a joke at someone else expense.

And people like Nerfy acting like you have never made a joke at someone else expense.

inorite. Nerf, you telling me you've never laughed @ a fat person joke?

Here's the one from Imgur yesty:

Thats it pinky. Lol Mosfx.

hhahha fucking haha mosfx that is the funniest shit I've read all day, give the man his props, haahahaha meanwhile the gf is all "waht if you had one" hahahahahahaha fuuuuckk

She is famous on the Internet.
1000 years from now she will still be more famous than 99% of the ppl who made fun of her.

I wonder what ever happened to that special Olympics kid running ?

I'm a horrible person.

I skim read and saw meme's laughed, read to pinky's post went back up and realised some girl got her feelings hurt. Laughed again though.

Edit: PS really these meme's aren't like they're intended to be directly offensive to the subject - the subject is a punchline but it's not like the person is. Sure it's mean to make a joke of a persons illness, race or disability sometimes, but it's also fun to make fun of minorities, red headed people and anyone with a slight difference to each other.

Realistically if you live past the age of 15 you should have realised it at school. No matter who you are or what you look like you can become a joke. The fact that arbitrarily someone used her face instead of another face for a punchline doesn't mean she herself was directly insulted though.

I've taken a lot of shit in my life, and i'm sure a lot of you all have too. Most of it was intended to be dark humour and you know it as such and shrug it off. I don't see why just because someone has a disability they suddenly become totally immune to these kinds of things. Hell because i'm posting on the internet proves i'm already expecting anything i say to be replied to negatively. I've taken that 'risk' because i don't really care about that side of stuff, and sometimes the replies are pretty darn good. I've got pictures of myself on facebook that i don't hide no matter how bad i look in them because if some friends laugh at my expense, then that's a pretty cheap laugh in my book.

Sure if an entire meme was generated around me i'd be a little more concerned and a lot confused. But if someone's taken something that I've put out there publicly and done it, i'll wear it. Assuming it's intended in a joke fashion, perhaps at my expense, but not directly intended as hateful to me, then fine. I expect that. Anything positive i get from it is just bonus.

That's the first time I've seen it. Never heard of it before.

Really, this picture sums it up:

Don't know how you can be on the internet and have not seen this meme.

It's offensive, but on the scale of offensivityness it's not very offensive.

it begs the question - how did the picture get on the internet to begin with? I'm looking at you concerned/offended mother.

hahahahah lol @ the medias title under her name

HEIDI CROWTER
Victim of trolling


Internet nerd stuff is getting more and more main stream. Time to rise up and form an underground movement against the mainstreaming of the internet

if we couldnt make fun of people we would never of had hours and hours of laughter at star wars kid

Remember that Down's syndrome girl meme?

nup