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If Humans Evolved From Different Animals or How Humans Would've Looked If We Evolved From Different Animals is a brainrot meme trend in which photoshopped and AI-generated images of human-animal hybrids are shown after a video of two cherries clashing under the caption, "How humans would've looked if we evolved from different animals." Posts imagining what humans would look like if they evolved from other animals have been uploaded on social media since as early as 2017. The trend was popularized on TikTok in late September through early October 2025, becoming significantly popularized on the app. The videos are often set to the song "Cigarette Duet" by Princess Chelsea.

Origin

On April 20th, 2025, TikToker^[1] @janneksplace posted a video captioned, "How humans could have evolved differently," followed by a compilation of animal images, then by sketches imagining what humans may have looked like if they evolved from the previously shown animal, garnering over 17.5 million views in six months. This is the earliest known video following the concept. The video uses drawings by 17th-century French artist Charles Le Brun.^[2]

The meme is comparable to a January 3rd, 2017, post to the /r/funny^[3] subreddit titled, "What humans could look like if they evolved from other animals," which shares the same sketches next to animals, ultimately, ending with a Sarah Jessica Parker Looks Like a Horse meme.

On September 3rd, 2025, TikToker^[4] @zawmtt posted a video captioned, "What humans would've looked like if we evolved from animals," beginning with a clip of two cherries clashing, followed by an image of a cat, then an edit of a cat-corndog hybrid, garnering over 3.9 million views in a month. This is the earliest known example of the video using the most popular formatting.

Spread

The Humans Evolved From Different Animals meme became increasingly popularized in late September 2025 as it spread online.

On September 26th, 2025, TikToker^[5] @fainet.zdu posted a version of the meme using a different image of a human-cat hybrid, garnering over 4.8 million views in six days.

On September 29th, TikToker^[6] @memegooner3 posted a version of the meme showing what it might look like if humans evolved from horses, rats and giraffes, garnering over 15 million views in three days.

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