The Most Popular Baby Moments In Internet History

By Sana Ghani in Feel Good On 14th September 2016
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#1 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.

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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.

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#2 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 on 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 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.

#3 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, reacting with such surprise that the Internet immediately 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

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#4 Charlie Bit My Finger

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#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 filmmaker some great exposure, but more importantly, showing us how we are clearly all children when we drink too much.

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#6 Single Ladies Dancing Baby

Easily one of the most watched videos of 2009, if not the biggest viral video that year. This little tyke's name is Cory. Cory's parents were so pleased by his instant Internet fame when the video of him dancing to Beyonce's "Single Ladies" (which is a whole meme in of itself), that they made the baby a Twitter account, t-shirts, and capitalized on their Internet stardom as quickly as you probably should. Unless you're Scumbag Steve, you only have a matter of weeks before that goes away.

(Follow the baby, yes a baby, on @BabyCory)

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#7 Bombs Away Baby

There's nothing better than a baby's laughter. (Except on an airplane. For some reason, parents don't seem to realize that the sound of a baby squealing with delight is just as loud and awful as that of a baby shrieking in agony.) (Am I a bad person?) This little fella is just having himself a hell of a time listening to [who I presume is] his dad making sounds. This could easily be the best day of his life so far.

He was also one of the first babies to go viral once YouTube began, garnering over 150 million views across multiple videos, getting on countless news stations and even being the choice clip shown to The Queen of England upon her visiting YouTube headquarters in 2008.

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#9 Aww so intense

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#10 Getting the shrek treatment.

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#8 This Little Guy

There's nothing better than a baby's laughter. (Except on an airplane. For some reason, parents don't seem to realize that the sound of a baby squealing with delight is just as loud and awful as that of a baby shrieking in agony.) (Am I a bad person?) This little fella is just having himself a hell of a time listening to [who I presume is] his dad making sounds. This could easily be the best day of his life so far.

He was also one of the first babies to go viral once YouTube began, garnering over 150 million views across multiple videos, getting on countless news stations and even being the choice clip shown to The Queen of England upon her visiting YouTube headquarters in 2008.