Gingerbread Man Ty Beanie Baby

Submission 38

About

Gingerbread Man Ty Beanie Baby refers to a Ty Beanie Baby stuffed animal that's a Christmas gingerbread man which went viral on Twitter / X in December 2024. He has blue eyes, a red nose and a smile. A viral tweet started the craze for the plushie, captioned, "Saw this guy and said, 'Ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ugly,' and then felt so bad I cried and bought him." The tweet inspired fan art and redraws in the following weeks.

Online Presence

On December 13th, 2024, X^[1] user @fartpog tweeted a photo holding a Gingerbread Man Ty Beanie Baby, captioning it, "Saw this guy and said, 'Ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ugly,' and then felt so bad I cried and bought him." The tweet amassed over 26.5 million views and 421,000 likes in five days (shown below).

Quote tweets of the abovementioned tweet went viral in the following days. For instance, later December 13th, X^[2] user @hyperbolu captioned the post, "This is how some of y'all be pickin' boyfriends," gaining over 410,000 likes in five days (shown below).

In the following days, fan art of the Gingerbread Man arose, like in a tweet shared by X^[3] user @tristandavisart on December 15th, 2024, showing the Beanie Baby being called "ugly" by the original poster, gaining over 240,000 likes in three days (shown below).

Redraws of the original tweet also surfaced, like one posted by X^[4] user @lotusgeto on December 15th, 2024, showing Jujutsu Kaisen character Satoru Gojo, receiving over 9,100 likes in three days (shown below).

People began purchasing the Gingerbread Man Beanie Baby en masse and then posting about it online. For instance, on December 17th, X^[5] user @LWYJadeMD posted a photo of several Gingerbread Man Beanie Babies of varying sizes in her car, captioned, "I did overcommit a little," gaining over 54,000 likes in a day (shown below).

The tweet received its own slew of quote tweets in the following days, like one posted by X^[6] user @givemebudlight on December 17th, 2024, who noted that @LWYJadeMD was a Taylor Swift fan, writing, "It's always a Swiftie behind overconsumption." The tweet riffed on then-recent Taylor Swift fan discourse caused by the You're Making Feel Like I'm the Man video. In a day, the post gained roughly 131,000 likes (shown below).