About

I Want a Baby refers to a viral challenge wherein a Twitter user dared others to text their boyfriend "I want a baby" and screenshot the boyfriend's humorously put-off response.

Origin

On January 26th, 2019, Twitter user @kellicopter^[1] tweeted "text your boyfriend 'i want a baby' and screenshot the response," gaining over 20,000 retweets and 83,000 likes (shown below).

Spread

The tweet generated over 7,800 replies as people attempted and reacted to the challenge. Popular replies include a tweet by @abreigh_brown that gained over 1,200 retweets and 22,000 likes (shown below, left) and a tweet by @EmFuthey that gained over 1,800 retweets and 24,000 likes (shown below, right).

The tweets were covered by PopBuzz.^[2] Popular tweets covered by PopBuzz include a tweet by @alexis_brody that gained over 5,100 retweets and 46,000 likes (shown below, left) and a tweet by @_antichristie that gained over 500 retweets and 9,800 likes (shown below, right).

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