About

Business Baby is an advice animal image macro series featuring a photograph of a toddler talking on a toy phone with captions depicting the child as an enterprising business executive.

Origin

On February 17th, 2014, Redditor C0LDBLUERIBB0N submitted a photo of his friend's toddler seated at a table eating a bowl of cereal with a toy phone held to his ear to the /r/funny^[1] subreddit (shown below, left). Meanwhile, Redditor bruxc submitted an image macro depicting the baby as an angry business executive titled "No Bullshit Business Baby" to /r/funny^[2] (shown below, right). In the first 48 hours, the posts received over 36,200 and 12,100 up votes respectively.

Spread

On February 18th, Redditor TheDebtThatAllMenPay submitted a Business Baby image macro joking about toddler fecal incontinence to the /r/AdviceAnimals^[8] subreddit (shown below, left). The same day, Redditor Crs3050 posted an example mocking the child's limited math knowledge to /r/AdviceAnimals.^[9] In the first 24 hours, the posts garnered more than 9,000 up votes and 21,800 up votes respectively.

Also on February 18th, several Internet humor sites highlighted notable examples from the series, including BuzzFeed,^[4] UpRoxx,^[5] The Roosevelts^[6] and Mashable.^[7] Within 48 hours of its inception, upwards of 260 Business Baby image macros were submitted to the /r/AdviceAnimals subreddit.^[3]

Notable Examples

Search Interest

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