Giant Baby

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(HELL YEAH) guys hanging out @_t_d_b_ Replying to @DuckAlertsNOW Why is he emanating a mysterious fog 2:24 PM · Apr 20, 2020 · Twitter for iPhone 260 Retweets 9.5K Likes Tom Bombadil @Old_TomBombadil · 6h Replying to @_t_d_b_ and @DuckAlertsNOW Baby powder 27 2 724 (HELL YEAH) guys hanging out @_t_d_b_ • 6h Nope it's fog 4 27 3 923

in fair corona where we quarantine @3liza i think the giant baby is an unfortunate looking three or four year old with a buzz cut. i'm a toddler truther on this one 8:27 PM · Apr 20, 2020 · Twitter for iPhone

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo Everyone's talking about a giant baby, you folks see this? You hear about this giant baby? So naturally I'm like, "Oh boy, what did the President say this time!" We have a great show tonight, American Hi-Fi is here 8:14 PM · Apr 20, 2020 · Twitter for iPhone

HELLOREG @helloreg_ Peanut butter baby "ah'ed" so giant baby could slam 12:59 AM · Apr 21, 2020 · Twitter for iPhone

antoinette @esantoinette_ wish I never saw that video of that giant baby BIG ΒΟΥ

About • Origin • Spread • Examples •

Category: Meme Status: submission Year: 2020 Origin: TikTok Region:

Type: Viral Video

Tags: baby huge smoke repulse @capnporgporg kat kat.027 @bakkooon @duckalertsnow @cybernormie

About

Giant Baby refers to a viral TikTok video of a toddler in a diaper bouncing on his father's back and giggling. When the video spread to Twitter, it led to a wave of people commenting that they were repulsed by the video.

Origin

On April 19th, 2020, TikTok user kat.027^[1] posted a video of her son, Gav, bouncing on her father's belly. The video gained over 7 million views on TikTok in less than two days (shown below).

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6817451813097295109

Spread

On April 20th, the video began spreading on Twitter after user @DuckAlertsNOW^[2] reposted the video with the caption, "is anyone else just absolutely REPULSED by this giant baby," gaining over 27,000 retweets and 241,000 likes (shown below).

is anyone else just absolutely REPULSED by this giant baby pic.twitter.com/0Un7QQ4kZF
— Yard Sard: A Memoir (@DuckAlertsNOW) April 20, 2020

As the tweet spread, many Twitter users agreed that they were repulsed by the baby. User @BAKKOOON^[3] tweeted, "why is there steam emanating from the huge baby. is it smoking, about to explode. really upsetting video," gaining over 240 likes (the "steam" is baby powder). PixelatedBoat joked, "Everyone else is too much of a coward so I’m stepping up. I will fight the giant baby," gaining over 160 retweets and 2,300 likes^[4] (shown below, right).

BAKOON ФВАККООONN why is there steam emanating from the huge baby. is it smoking, about to explode. really upsetting video 8:41 PM · Apr 20, 2020 · Twitter Web Client

pixelatedboat aka "mr tweets" @pixelatedboat Everyone else is too much of a coward so l'm stepping up. I will fight the giant baby 8:15 PM · Apr 20, 2020 · Twitter for iPhone

Others parodied @DuckAlertsNOW's tweet, using it as a copypasta and posting pictures of various other people. For example, user @CapnPorgPorg^[7] posted the text with a picture of Charlie Kirk, gaining over 160 likes (shown below, left). User @Cybernormie^[8] posted the tweet with a muscular Kirby, gaining over 45 likes (shown below, right).

Cap'n Jazz Hands @capnporgporg Is anyone else just repulsed by this giant baby?

Olivia Louise @CyberNormie Is anybody else absolutely repulsed by this giant baby? 7:10 PM · Apr 20, 2020 · Twitter for iPhone

The video was covered by Junkee^[5] and Daily Dot,^[6] the latter of which cited comments from the original poster of the video clarifying the baby was healthy albeit large. Kat.027 told TikTok commenters that doctors expected Gav to be 6'3".