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Baby Jhon -

He looks at the spoon resting beside my coffee cup. He looks at me. For one terrifying, hilarious second, his brow furrows. The old magic flickers behind his eyes.

The meme evolved. When a politician gave a boring speech, Twitter replied with a GIF of Baby Jhon. When a software update failed, Reddit posted the growl. He became a universal shorthand for: I have had enough of your nonsense. But fame is a heavy spoon to push away. baby jhon

“No,” he says. “I want pizza.” The Baby Jhon Growl is still out there. It surfaces every few months, a ghost in the machine. Last week, a NASA engineer tweeted it alongside a photo of a malfunctioning Mars rover. The caption read: “Same, little dude. Same.” He looks at the spoon resting beside my coffee cup

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