Citations:babygirlification
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English citations of babygirlification and baby-girlification
Noun: "(fandom slang) the act or process of making a male fictional character into a 'babygirl'"
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- 2022, Ruby Innes, "The ‘Babygirlification’ Of Ghost From Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare II", Kotaku, 7 November 2022:
- If you haven’t been up-to-date on what’s happening over on TikTok in terms of gaming lately, this is probably the biggest news of the bunch: The ‘Babygirlification’ of Simon “Ghost” Riley from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II.
- 2022, Rachel Choi, "The babygirlification of Ghost in COD is threatening the incels", The Berkeley Beacon (Emerson College), 1 December 2022, page 4:
- This entire fiasco stemming from the babygirlification of a tall, masked man is the perfect time to reflect on society’s problem of perceiving both men and women.
- 2022, Jamie Eason, "No Canon We Die Like Men: The Oppositional Power of Fanon on Different Social Media Platforms", thesis submitted to Skidmore College on 8 December 2022, page 15:
- A current fanon term on TikTok is “baby-girlification.” This term refers to the trend of, primarily young women, calling characters, usually middle-aged white men, their “baby girl.”
- 2023, Madeline Carpou, "The People Have Spoken: ‘SNL’s New Babygirl Is Marcello Hernández", The Mary Sue, 27 February 2023:
- And I might be tempted to agree with you, if I hadn’t witnessed with my own two eyes the babygirlification of SNL men over the last few years.
- 2023, Carola Ríos Pérez, "TikTok's Babygirlification: Explained!", Her Campus, 2 March 2023:
- My TikTok For You Page bombarded me with edits of Simon “Ghost” Riley, which was how I found out about babygirlfication in the first place.
- 2023, Genny Sheara, "'Nothing will come of nothing:' A Succession Retrospective [Spoilers]", The Spectator (Seattle University), 31 May 2023:
- The ‘babygirlification’ of the Roy siblings and overabundance of pretentious thought-pieces online is a clear testament to the empathetic portrayal of each character.
- 2023, Shannon Lawlor, "Succession’s leading men are trash—so why are so many of us weirdly attracted to them?", Marie Claire (UK), 12 April 2023 (section title):
- The 'babygirlification' of Roman Roy
- 2023, Seija Rankin, "Ayo Edebiri Is Suddenly Everywhere", The Hollywood Reporter, 9 August 2023:
- It launched several (overlapping) fandoms — the earliest, and often the loudest, revolves around the internet’s obsession with and babygirlification of White as Carmy, the tortured and tattooed bad boy with a heart of gold (sort of), but a close second was Edebiri’s performance as the hyper-driven Sydney.
- 2023, Alex Abad-Santos, "Jacob Elordi is the number one babygirl", Vox, 16 November 2023:
- To do this, he’s leaned into his own babygirlification.