That's right: The Child, aka Baby Yoda, the star (okay, maybe not technically but CERTAINLY in practice) of writer/director/producer Jon Favreau's Disney+ Star Wars series The Mandalorian.
As of this writing, "baby yoda memes" returns more than 39 million Google results, so it's safe to say nobody has ever had more people screaming:
Which is why, when Star Wars creator George Lucas and Baby Yoda finally met the other day, the entire internet lost its collective mind. Please sit down, because the cuteness might be too much to handle.
It all began when Favreau tweeted out a photo of the iconic filmmaking wizard cradling the sweet little fuzzy dude like, well, a baby on The Mandalorian set, and good Lord almighty it's enough to make you forget every problem that has ever happened in the entire history of human existence and any that may arise in the future for the rest of time.
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Can you even‽‽
Honestly, the only way this could be better is if Lucas were feeding the big BY his beloved chiccy nuggies and choccy milk.
Anyway, Favreau's immediately-viral tweet had no caption, because a picture this pure surpasses all words, of course.
But the internet sure had plenty to say, because frankly, they're obsessed.
Extremely blessed image passing by your timeline https://t.co/ydwu4QDasZ— Davi Brantes (@Davi Brantes) 1579243819
@Jon_Favreau This really feels like I’m witnessing something blessed, repaint the Sistine chapel with this image pls— Ant-Cam / on a break (@Ant-Cam / on a break) 1579227673
This is truly amazing because he looks as if he was looking at his new born child. This photo is legendary. https://t.co/FScmqu3baF— JMartyr Haa (@JMartyr Haa) 1579242713
@Jon_Favreau Tag yourself. I’m the smiling through tears bystander. https://t.co/mwVipQjMad— Bruce your Zombuddy (@Bruce your Zombuddy) 1579227680
Get you a person who looks at you the way the person in the background wearing a jacket looks at George Lucas looki… https://t.co/moeNQL4VAX— Aura Bogado (@Aura Bogado) 1579240365
"no, *I* am your father" https://t.co/osXhNVVjQP— Dave Itzkoff (@Dave Itzkoff) 1579227485
"Always two, there are. A master, and an apprentice." https://t.co/7xIC0TmJzv— Austen Alvarez-Bundy (@Austen Alvarez-Bundy) 1579242810
Me walking to my computer desk with the burrito I just microwaved https://t.co/y1ONKOaE0k— 🏳️⚧️🌌Audrey From Earth!🌌🏳️⚧️ (@🏳️⚧️🌌Audrey From Earth!🌌🏳️⚧️) 1579276117
I love how hastily taken this photo clearly is. Like Favs is scrambling to get his phone out of his pocket. "Ohmygo… https://t.co/f7MvqvpmYh— Kyle Martinak (@Kyle Martinak) 1579275797
@Jon_Favreau "George put Baby Yoda down." "No." "George we need it for shooting." "No it's mine now." "George pleas… https://t.co/65pjHwjmHi— Chillguy / COMMISSIONS CLOSED / Overworked (@Chillguy / COMMISSIONS CLOSED / Overworked) 1579228473
Baby Yoda is going home. https://t.co/ga630v7b8p— Mikki Kendall (@Mikki Kendall) 1579239436
2020 ain't that bad https://t.co/fUjvxTNhfO— Jackson (@Jackson) 1579230201
What a blessing to the timeline, indeed.
If you, too, have fallen in love with Baby Yoda, there's a fun story about how Baby Yoda would've been just a CGI mirage if iconic filmmaker (and The Mandalorian costar) Werner Herzog hadn't scolded everyone for even thinking about it.
Thank God for those who speak truth to power.
Liberty! Unity! Chiccy Nuggies!
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Clearly, Frozen has cast a spell on the world.
So it should probably come as no surprise that a family is dealing with the logical next step: a haunted doll in the image of the franchise's main character, Elsa, which *cue ominous music* keeps reappearing in their home no matter how many times they throw it in the garbage.
No?
Okay maybe not, but that's what happened to extremely hot actor Sam Claflin. And the photographic proof of the bizarre situation has inadvertently taken the internet's thirst to a code red.
Claflin is the 33-year-old actor you may remember from The Hunger Games films, in which he played the character of Finnick, as well as the BBC series Peaky Blinders where he plays real life villain fascist and Nazi sumpathizer Oswald Mosley and the most recent remake of Charlie's Angels.
He is also extremely hot.
He was shaving the other day, as one does, when he came across a sign posted on the sink reading:
" Do not use the tap water – there is anti freeze in the water lines! Use the hand sanitizer provided."
Ominous!
WTF, right? Why is there antifreeze in the water? Is Sam Claflin shaving at a Superfund site?
So, Sam did what any normal person would do in this day and age: posted a photo of the bizarre notice to Instagram.
And absolutely nobody cared...
...about the antifreeze that is, because HOLY ABS GOOD LORD SWEET MERCY WOWOWOWOWOW *drools*
Claflin's post quickly racked up hundreds of thousands of likes and scores of comments.
Not one of which pertained to the odd and possibly dangerous subject at hand.
It was just straight-up, pure, uncut, unadulterated, unfettered THIRST.
I'm sharing this because of my 8 year long obsession with Finnick Odair and my much longer obsession with abs. https://t.co/xJyEFyEEw4— Declan Moran (@Declan Moran) 1579039218.0
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a gay wrote this article 10000% percent https://t.co/s6f29BQFXb— Omar (@Omar) 1579040072.0
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Oh my lord!!!🥰😘😍❤️🔥🔥🔥 ok you can hide again on social media,as long you comeback for this,will won’t complain Thank… https://t.co/OYnmKlWSuf— johcel_0527 💕 (@johcel_0527 💕) 1578960809.0
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SAM CLAFLIN HOW YOU DARE https://t.co/k1ickgHq49— anne 🌾 renew awae! (@anne 🌾 renew awae!) 1578944349.0
And who can blame them?
Who can reasonably be expected to FOCUS on the problem at hand when those delicious abs are staring them in the face? Claflin has no one to blame but himself.
Judgment for the defendants.
Even some of Claflin's celebrity friends were no match for this ab-solutely ab-ominable-in-a-good-way ab-undance of... well, abs.
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But perhaps the true measure of the power of Claflin's abs was the fact that Razor company Gillette had to profess its thirst, too.
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So, there you have it folks: if you have abs and you're going to post something to Instagram pertaining to a possible threat to your life, make sure you put on a shirt first.
One person looks at an abstract painting and sees an interpretive representation of the suffocating ennui of human futility, and another sees, like, a teddy bear or whatever.
Art!
This must be—nay, can only be—the explanation for Madame Tussauds new wax sculpture of Nicki Minaj, which looks not so much like Nicki Minaj, but more like... a woman dressed up in a particularly on-point Nicki Minaj Halloween costume?
Maybe?
Like be real, doesn't this statue kind of look like a promotional still from a forthcoming straight-to-DVD Nicki Minaj biopic starring Olivia Munn?
It’s like when you buy generic instead of name brand. You know what you have but it’s just not quite as good 😂 Thi… https://t.co/Hpp9ohn8h7— Liz On The Radio 🎙 (@Liz On The Radio 🎙) 1578487532.0
That, too, is open to interpretation of course.
But here's what's not: that looks nothing like Nicki Minaj.
That is indisputable.
It is settled science.
Anyway.
This wax statue of "Nicki Minaj" was put on display January 7 at the Madame Tussauds museum in Berlin.
Its provocative pose is meant to look like the opening scene of the Anaconda video.
This isn't the first showing of the statue.
It was first unveiled in Las Vegas in 2015—shockingly, to Nicki's outspoken approval.
She posted a video of the figure back then with a gushing caption rife with emojis.
But while Nicki was certainly on board back in 2015, many of her Instagram fans at the time were like "LOL WUT," citing everything from the figure's inaccurate skin tone to its resemblance to Kim Kardashian.
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So it should come as no surprise that, like so many of Madame Tussauds truly cursed creations before it, when Nicki's statue hit the internet again this week, folks were not really seeing it?
Like, yeah it's gonna be a no from them, dog.
For that reason, they're out.
Nicki Minaj’s wax figure be like... https://t.co/BmWw3G5SPa— Mónica Mendoza Martínez (@Mónica Mendoza Martínez) 1578426649.0
The creator of Nicki Minaj wax figure at work. https://t.co/UHcGm1pxUF— Mareeesa (@Mareeesa) 1578435096.0
Nicki Minaj’s wax figure Me: https://t.co/gnSCG6xUB4— ANGEL (@ANGEL) 1578424173.0
☠️☠️ idc idc idc, whoever did that wax figure tried to play @NICKIMINAJ they know dam well that looks nothing like… https://t.co/3A37Eg5Ayr— ✨Kahreem✨ (@✨Kahreem✨) 1578422309.0
me looking at nicki minaj wax figure https://t.co/bXK67x5tv8— ッ (@ッ) 1578421917.0
so who tf thought that wax figure of #NickiMinaj was okay? that look like a rejected character from the movie Cats https://t.co/n0JMJCUCK5— 💕𝒱𝐼𝐼.𝐼𝐼.𝑀𝑀𝒱💕 (@💕𝒱𝐼𝐼.𝐼𝐼.𝑀𝑀𝒱💕) 1578524492.0
Idk who that wax figure is in Germany’s Madame Tussands but it’s not Nicki Minaj— 💵 (@💵) 1578428457.0
Listen, I’m not even die hard Nicki Minaj fan but she can RAP & ppl don’t give her talent the credit it deserves. T… https://t.co/35CEwAzPNZ— Zu (@Zu) 1578423796.0
I don’t know how but that Nicki Minaj wax figure is absolutely racism. 😭 https://t.co/qFjk89wyRn— D ® E W | K A N G (@D ® E W | K A N G) 1578420979.0
So anyway.
Whew!
That's a thing that happened.
But on the bright side, it definitely could be worse...
That horrible Nicki Minaj wax figure reminded of this Ronaldo statue💔😭 https://t.co/wwBjOc71Wi— Wow, That's Crazy🤯 (@Wow, That's Crazy🤯) 1578515093.0
Thank God for small mercies or whatever.
So, Madame Tussauds, what's good?