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She Gon' Call Me Baby Boo, also known as the Baby Boo Meme, is a misheard lyric from the song "What You Is" by NBA YoungBoy in which he raps, "she gon' call me Baby Buddha." In late January and early February 2026, the portion of the song where YoungBoy raps the line went viral on TikTok as the subject of remixes, which replace the original beat with more absurd beats. The trend was popularized by TikToker @boolonx2 and was started by TikToker @ckeleton0.

The remix trend features heavy crossover with the Baby Boo dance trend. In February 2026, the trend inspired an offshoot meme known as Baby Boo Syndrome, which imagines an illness related to a remix of "What You Is" with Frank Ocean's "White Ferrari."

Origin

On September 9th, 2025, NBA YoungBoy released the song "What You Is." The song features the commonly misheard lyrics, "She gon' call my Baby Buddha," which, according to Genius,^[1] is a reference to one of YoungBoy's old X posts reading, "Buddha Baby, you so fine.. you cute. Thank you boo."

The song started to inspire dance videos on TikTok shortly after it was released. Many of these posts reference the lyrics as "she gon' call me baby boo" in the descriptions.

For example, on September 26th, 2025, TikToker^[2] @selenaaa.dta posted a video dancing to the song that gained over 3.7 million views in five months. The description reads, "She gon call me baby boo."

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"Baby Boo" Remix Trend

In late January 2026, remixes of the "baby boo" portion of the song started going viral on TikTok.

On January 20th, 2026, TikToker^[3] @ckeleton0 posted a video sharing a remix of the song with a classic ice cream truck song replacing the beat, garnering over 1.7 million views in three weeks. This is one of the earliest known examples of a Baby Boo remix.

On January 31st, TikToker^[4] @boolonx2 posted a remix that replaces the beat of the song with the theme song to the Roblox game Adopt Me!, garnering over 1.2 million views in just over a week.

On February 8th, 2026, TikToker^[5] @lumilith posted a video showing off a remix of the song with "Creep" by Radiohead, garnering over 1.1 million views in a day.

Later that day, TikToker^[6] @jay.editz123 posted a lyric video edit sharing a remix of the song with Tyler, the Creator's song "See You Again," garnering over 1.9 million views in a day.

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Related Memes

Baby Boo Syndrome

Baby Boo Syndrome or BabyBoo Syndrome is a series of memes inspired by the Baby Boo remix trend where people are filmed acting erratically, zombie-like and jaggedly performing portions of the Baby Boo dance under captions claiming that they have "Baby Boo Syndrome," as an NBA YoungBoy Baby Boo remix plays in the background. Memes about Baby Boo Syndrome first started going viral on TikTok in mid-February 2026 and continued to spread over the following weeks.

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