Me As A Baby, also called Whimsical Little Creature, is a late 2022 TikTok trend built around videos of a floating white puppet in a pointy green hat2. The puppet is named Tibúrcio, and its videos come from the Brazilian TikTok account @mestreensinador1, run by artist Jhonatan Oliveira1. Clips typically show Tibúrcio flying through forested areas, twirling, doing small dances, or performing mysterious rituals2.

The meme took its familiar shape once TikTokers started duetting the clips and asking their younger siblings, cousins, or kids if they remembered being the floating puppet as a baby4. Many children agreed, sometimes inventing detail like being 'strange and had no hair' or a flying ghost, while others bluntly refused to buy it4. The joke also spawned running speculation about how these implanted fake memories might quietly mess with Gen Alpha's sense of self later in life3.

Oliveira had been posting Tibúrcio videos since 2020, so English-speaking TikTok discovered a two-year backlog of surreal Brazilian puppet clips all at once when the duet trend hit2.

The typical Tibúrcio video is a TikTok duet. Someone puts a clip of the flying puppet in one panel and their own reaction in the other, then asks a young sibling, cousin, or child sitting next to them if they remember being that little creature as a baby2. Kids either roll with it, sometimes adding their own details about what they were doing as a floating puppet, or bluntly deny it4.

Outside the sibling-prank format, people cosplayed as Tibúrcio, wrapping themselves in a white gown and pointy green hat and moving in a similarly jerky, floating style4. Others dressed pets in matching outfits, with confused orange cats being a small running joke inside the trend4. Fan art of the puppet doing similar poses became its own mini format on Twitter, treating Tibúrcio as a stand-alone character with his own visual identity1.