![]() As we crawled through the last dregs of 2019, it offered a form of light relief, allowing us to revel in cuteness and innocence for a short while, and suspend the trials of real life. It is no accident that Baby Yoda gained such fanfare at a time of epic despondency and conflict. Our need to worry for him is tempered by our knowledge that he will probably be fine, because his mighty actions are ultimately beyond our control. This creature, while seemingly vulnerable and naïve, is actually more powerful than all of us, and inflicts his own gargantuan violence later in the show. This rather sinister thought seems to be yet another affliction of contemporary culture, and yet there might be something even deeper running within our Baby Yoda-shaped obsession. ![]() The result being that younger generations grew up surrounded and overwhelmed by cute things.Ī video by Wisecrack goes further to explain that our somewhat violent caregiving impulse is heightened even further when the object of our affection is in peril or upset. ![]() Furthermore, Sianne Ngai’s essay The Cuteness of the Avant-Garde refers to early twentieth-century theories that highlighted children’s inherent cruelty, which informed a shift from toys that took the form of breakable items such as china dolls, to soft, indestructible alternatives that placated through their cuteness. The extreme response fits into the rhetoric of recent studies concerning “cute aggression”, which sees people experience an involuntary impulse to squeeze or bite adorable pets and babies. #meme #spongebob #lucifer #spongebobmemes #likeforlikes #like4like #lucifermorningstar #followforfollowback #follow4followback #scoobydoo #babyyoda #babyyodamemes #explorepage #instagood #instagram #love #memes #lucifermemes #2020 #2020vision #newyear #dankmemes #dankmeme #dog #dogs #dogsofinstagramĪ post shared by Professional Memer on at 3:45pm PST The kid even inexplicably gained his own voice, which is almost exclusively relates to quests for “chicky nuggies”.Ī. Once the error was rectified, the obsession hit full tilt, with people utilizing screen grabs to poke fun at everything from self-care to baby boomers. Images of the publicly named Baby Yoda, after the Jedi master of the same species (it is referred to as The Child on screen) disseminated so fast that platforms removed them, mistakenly believing that they were spoilers from the unreleased Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker. His enormous articulated ears, bulging eyes and general air of mischievous innocence was enough to make me melt, and holler at the screen every time he was allowed to tentatively walk around in his tiny brown robe: “Pick that baby off the ground for God’s sake!” Image via Reddit ![]() However, it still didn’t prepare me for the moment when the infant appeared on screen. Mere hours after the premiere episode of The Mandalorian-the Star Wars spin off show that pitches a narrative outside the timeline of the films-the Internet was flooded with gifs and memes of this inconceivably adorable creature. I screeched the first time I saw Baby Yoda, even though I knew the bundle of green joy was coming. ![]()
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