The 20 Greatest Babies in Internet History

Ariel Kana Power
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Baby memes and baby videos have been a staple of the internet since the very beginning of the viral web. From the famous "Dancing Baby", to "Charlie Bit My Finger", to Success Kid and some of the most famous images to have ever hit the web, these are the most famous babies in internet history.

From the early YouTube clips fearing viral baby videos to the newest baby meme out there, this is a round-up and explanation of the biggest, most well-known babies on the web.

A baby meme is great in that people don't usually make it dirty. It's one of the few things that remains sacred on the internet and actually keeps everyone in a clean, family-friendly mood. Babies are innocent, adorable and joyous enough in of themselves. So in what is probably the cleanest meme/viral video round-up you'll ever run into, these are the best of the best of viral baby videos and baby-based photoshops, funny pictures and viral images about babies.

List Criteria: Extremely popular viral baby videos or baby-based memes that aren't terrible.

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The Charlie Bit My Finger Kids

Over half a billion views. The kids from Charlie Bit My Finger, a video featuring a kid and his baby brother who keeps biting his finger, have been seen by more people that have seen most of your favorite TV shows. Networks would KILL for this kind of exposure.

And all these kids had to do was be insanely adorable.

In 2007, YouTube user HDCYT's video featured a 1 year old biting his 3 year old brother's finger, as the older one complains about how much that hurts, kindly asking his brother not to bite his finger in the most politely British way imaginable.
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Success Kid

You've seen Success Kid before. Plenty of times. He's a little man named Sammy whose mom took a picture of him that went up on Getty Images in 2007. Then in 2008 (aka the Golden Age of the internet when .gifs were still used to communicate and page backgrounds were allowed to be sparkly), the popular photoshop of Success Kid (then known as the "I Hate Sand Castles" kid) made the rounds on sites like MySpace.

Once this took off, Sammy became extremely common throughout the internet as a picture anyone can use to express their excitement at something relatively mundane.

And once he was made into an Advice Animal (first seen in this form as uploaded to Reddit), much like most other "Advice Animal" memes, he became ubiquitous around the web.
3

Two Babies Who Talk in Baby

In early 2011, this video of two babies seemingly talking to each other in complete gibberish hit the front page of Reddit, leading it to be posted pretty much everywhere else on the internet and then television a few weeks later.

Remixes and other videos were made immediately, most notably by comedian Patton Oswalt:

With over 70 million views, the video has made the babies involved some of the most internet famous babies in internet history. It's like they're making fun of us. In the right state of mind, this video could lead you to an existential crisis.

A DA DA DA DA DA?

DA DA DA DA!
4

The Scared Baby

This little guy has become one of the most well-known .gifs used regularly to express surprise or disgust in regards to the post being talked about.

His name is Emerson and the popular .gif came from a viral video off of YouTube featuring little Emerson playing happily with his throne of toys, that is, until his mother would blow her nose. This would scare the baby temporarily, and he makes a look of such surprise that the internet fell in love with him.

He's arguably the cutest baby on this list. I will fight you on this.

The most well-known moment comes at 00:43
5

Baby Trashes Bar in Las Palmas

Miniatures? Check. Puppets? CHECK. Giant drunk baby staggering all over the place, knocking over stuff like it's nothing, picking food off strangers' plates and spitting up everywhere? Jackpot. In this trailer for his short film Las Palmas, Swedish filmmaker Johannes Nyholm nails my Friday nights at the Cha Cha Lounge.

As soon as this video hit the internet people fell in love with it, giving the film maker some great exposure, but more importantly, showing us how we are clearly all children when we drink too much.