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Getting A Lot Of Boss Baby Vibes From This, otherwise known as Boss Baby Vibes or Guy Who Has Only Seen The Boss Baby is a phrase taken from a viral tweet from 2019 that mocked people who attempt to analyze media while not having enough frame of reference to understand the culture and influence that led to the common elements between works of art. Since then, the phrase has inspired many snowclones on Twitter.

Origin

The phrase originated in a tweet ^[1] posted by Twitter user @afraidofwasps on September 26, 2019, which read:

Guy who has only seen The Boss Baby, watching his second movie: Getting a lot of 'Boss Baby' vibes from this…

As of September 2021, the tweet (above) had received over 15,000 likes and 3,800 retweets.

Spread

On August 16th, 2020, Twitter ^[2] user @maxrwag tweeted a variation of the meme about the film Hotel For Dogs (below). The tweet received over 16,000 likes and 1,900 retweets over a year.

On August 15th, 2021, Twitter ^[3] user @jjdotbiz tweeted a variation of the meme about the film Annette. The tweet received over 2,700 likes and 150 retweets over three weeks.

Historical Applications

In July 2021, Reddit user and historian Tiako alluded to the "Boss Baby problem" as a legitimate concern for historians in a thread on r/AskHistorians. ^[4] According to Tiako, the meme provides an easily understandable comparison to the fact that because there are so few reliable sources about the ancient world, modern people's frames of reference for what that world was like can be severely limited and warped by the few sources that exist, through the same process as a movie viewer who has only seen The Boss Baby. Tiako's comment received over 600 upvotes in a month, and a tweet ^[5] about the comment (below) received over 4,000 likes and 1,000 retweets over the same period.

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