Stormi Webster Birth Announcement

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Overview

Stormi Webster Birth Announcement refers to the birth of Kylie Jenner's first child, Stormi Webster, who was born on February 1st. Since her birth, Stormi Webster has been the subject of numerous memes.

Background

Ending months of speculation,^[1] Kylie Jenner announced the birth of her and rapper and producer Travis Scott's first child on Instagram ^[2] on February 4th, 2018. That day, she posted a note to the site. It said, "I'm sorry for keeping you in the dark through all the assumption. I understand you're used to me bringing you along on all my journeys. my pregnancy was one I chose not to do in front of the world[…]my beautiful and healthy baby girl arrived February 1st and i just couldn't wait to share this blessing." The post (shown below) received more than 10 million likes in four days.

Development

That day, Jenner uploaded a video entitled "To Our Daughter." The video (shown below) is an 11-minute compilation featuring footage of her pregnancy, labor and newborn child.^[3] Within five days, the video received more than 49.7 million views.

Baby Picture

On February 6th, Jenner posted an image of her child holding her thumb on Instagram.^[4] The image was captioned with the name of her baby: "stormi webster 👼🏽." The post (shown below) received more than 15.9 million likes in 48 hours.

That day, people began posting memes of the image. Instagram^[5] account @girlwithnojob posted the picture with several makeup swatches photoshopped on her baby's wrist, parodying Jenner's makeup products. The post (shown below, left) was captioned "That was fast…" Within 48 hours, it has received more than 209,000 likes.

Instagram user @byrdiebeauty posted the image on Instagram^[6] with the caption "Kylie Jenner's baby has better nail beds than I'll ever have." The post (shown below, center) received more than 7,500 likes in 48 hours.

The following day, the official Instagram^[7] account account for The Ellen Show posted a photoshopped image of Ellen Degeneres and wife Portia de Rossi sitting at home in front of the picture. They captioned the post "Portia and I love our new art." The post (shown below, right) received more than 789,000 likes in 24 hours.

Additionally, people made jokes about the name on Twitter. On February 6th, Twitter^[8] user @iiordanou tweeted, "I had a DREAM last night that my SAINT of a friend PENELOPE was holding out a MASON jar catching REIGN coming from the NORTH WEST side of CHICAGO. Guess it was a STORMI night…" The post (shown below) received more than 420 retweets and 1,100.