Description[]
DaBaby Car, also known as DaBaby convertible, is a meme of the photoshopped head of American rapper Jonathan Lyndale Kirk "DaBaby" used as the body of a car with wheels attached on the bottom. The meme references jokes about DaBaby's head shape resembling a Crysler PT Cruiser and a lyric from DaBaby's song "Suge". During the viral popularity of Ironic DaBaby Memes in March 2021, DaBaby Convertible mods were created for a number of video games, most notably in Roblox video games.
History[]
On March 24, 2019, Canadian interviewer Nardwuar uploaded a video "Nardwuar vs. DaBaby" to YouTube.[1] This started when Jonathan Lyndale Kirk was interviewed on a "celeb spot" and he was facing sideways away from the camera at the 6:30 mark in the clip that made the crowd see a car body shape that became a meme. This meme was found in around December 18, 2019, and started to spread in March 19, 2021.
Sometime prior to April 10, 2019, an unknown person drew a comparison between DaBaby's head shape and a Chrysler PT Cruiser. On April 10 and 19, Twitter users @FiddleStackss and @los_draco made the earliest tweets mentioning such comparisons.[2] On May 29, 2019, Twitter user @kitchbecool posted a viral tweet containing an image of DaBaby's head and a Chrysler PT Cruiser that received over 7,600 retweets and 26,200 likes in two years.[3]
The meme received viral spread online in the following days, with users posting jokes about the perceived similarity between DaBaby's head shape and PT Cruiser on social media.[4][5]
In his hit 2019 song "Suge", one of the lyrics was "I will turn a n**** into a convertible", which people took as a meme. While the memes about DaBaby's head shape maintained a moderate presence online in the following year, the meme did not achieve further development until August 24, 2020. On that day, Twitter and Instagram account @raplyricsaspics (@raplyricsasimages), admined by Twitter user @FebreezyXD, posted a two-panel Genius Lyrics Messages meme that contained a line from DaBaby's 2019 single "Suge" and a photoshop in which DaBaby's head was given car wheels.[6][7] The post received over 50 retweets and 420 likes on Twitter and nearly 400 likes on Instagram in eight months.
Web usage[]
In the following weeks, the meme received viral spread online. On September 1, Facebook group Rappers In Peculiar Places reposted the image, with the post gaining over 5,500 reactions and 3,400 shares in seven months.[8] On September 5, 2020, iFunny user IronManLOHH reposted the meme, gaining over 580 smiles in the same period.[9]
Prior to the first surge in popularity of Ironic DaBaby Memes in November 2020, several such memes went viral online. For example, on September 27, 2020, an unknown user posted a meme that was widely circulated on during that period.
The spread of the DaBaby Convertible meme mirrors the spread of ironic DaBaby memes online. In late November 2020, subreddit r/DaBaby started gaining increased attention as its ironic shitpost culture became more well-known across the web.[10] In late November and early December 2020, r/DaBaby became a major hub for ironic shitposting about DaBaby, with multiple memes going viral, including memes that utilized the DaBaby Convertible photoshop.
Following the shutdown of r/DaBaby subreddit on December 3, 2020, Facebook group Rappers In Peculiar places maintained popularity of the exploitable online, using it in multiple viral ironic memes between December and February 2021.[11][12] Several of the posts were reposted in the r/okbuddyretard subreddit during that period.
In March 2021, after ironic DaBaby memes saw a surge in popularity in the r/okbuddyretard subreddit, the memes, including DaBaby Convertible, spread to Instagram, Twitter and other platforms.
DaBaby Convertible Mods[]
Following the viral popularity of the meme, DaBaby Convertible became a popular choice for video game mods, akin to the popularity of Thomas the Tank Engine and Shrek video game mods.
On August 25, 2019, Roblox user OGPresto started developing a custom Roblox game DABABY RACETRACK in which players could race DaBaby convertibles, with the game becoming playable in March 2021.[13]
On March 21, Twitter user @Rad_Demo uploaded a DaBaby Convertible mod for Team Fortress 2 to Gamebanana.[14][15]
| “ | LMFAOOOOO IT WORKS pic.twitter.com/6sGoKEG9kx | ” |
| RadDemo (@Rad_Demo) March 21, 2021 | ||
ROBLOX[]
This meme quickly grew and became a popular meme in ROBLOX. This was a big trend on the ROBLOX community, This meme can be seen on Flamingo's channel, when he was playing a game with this meme as a decal and there was also a video of him playing DaBaby Car games.
References[]
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK0ViYBVTpg
- ↑ https://twitter.com/FiddleStackss/status/1116153109070385152
- ↑ https://twitter.com/kitchbecool/status/1133773581844979713
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2229853177091394&set=a.260240167386048
- ↑ https://twitter.com/DougBogale/status/1134160465842638849
- ↑ https://twitter.com/raplyricsaspics/status/1297909287755210753
- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CERrYqlsQTa/
- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CERrYqlsQTa/
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/RapperManNoBelongThere/photos/3251939831554153/
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/DaBaby/
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/RapperManNoBelongThere/posts/3583109005103899
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/RapperManNoBelongThere/posts/3619069198174546
- ↑ https://www.roblox.com/games/3726372159/RIP-DABABY-RACETRACK-2021-2021
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Rad_Demo/status/1373700966873202691
- ↑ https://gamebanana.com/mods/205593
External links[]
- Know Your Meme - DaBaby Convertible