Baby Yoda Drinking Soup

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About

Baby Yoda Drinking Soup is a reaction image macros from the American Star Wars Disney+ television series The Mandalorian. The image features the character Baby Yoda comfortably drinking from a mug with both its hands on the cup. Many have compared it to other moments from the culture of people drinking warm beverages.

Origin

On November 29th, 2019, the episode of The Mandalorian "Chapter 4: Sanctuary" premiered on Disney+.^[1] In the episode, the character The Mandalorian and Cara Dune (portrayed by Pedro Pascal and Gina Carano, respectively) fought at a campsite. At the end of their scuffle, they looked to their side to find Baby Yoda comfortably observing and slurping its soup (shown below).

That day, Twitter user @AdoptedBabyYoda posted a GIF of Baby Yoda sipping soup. They wrote, "Baby Yoda and his soup is the new sipping tea meme. I’ve said it." The post received more than 240,000 likes and 58,000 retweets in less than four days (shown below).

Spread

Following the post, others on Twitter began posting variations of the meme. Shortly after the GIF posted, Twitter^[2] user @TheJulieBenson tweeted the image with the caption "Every Mom on Christmas morning watching you open presents." The tweet received more than 287,000 likes and 51,000 retweets in less than three days (shown below, left). Twitter^[3] user @vivithao tweeted, "me watching my life fall apart in front of my very eyes." Within four days, the tweet received more than 174,000 likes and 59,000 retweets (shown below, center).

The following day, Twitter^[4] user @jillboard tweeted, "any given character from big little lies on their balcony at 6am." The post received more than 160,000 likes and 20,000 retweets in less than three days (shown below, right).

Several media outlets covered the meme, including Indy100,^[5] CNet,^[6] IGN,^[7] Refinery29,^[8] CNN,^[9] Thrillist^[10] and more. Twitter^[11] published a Moments page on the meme.