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Giant Baby
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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).
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).
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".
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External References
[2] Twitter – duckalertsnow
[3] Twitter – @BAKKOOONN
[4] Twitter – pixelatedboat
[5] Junkee – Everybody Is Absolutely Obsessed With A Giant Baby On TikTok
[6] Daily Dot – This viral TikTok has people backseat parenting a baby
[7] Twitter – capnporgporg
[8] Twitter – cybernormie
Top Comments
Nymanator
Apr 21, 2020 at 07:02PM EDT
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