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A toddler from Ohio is causing hysterics on social media for his less-than-enthusiastic reaction to his new brother.
Mom Christie Garland (@christiannagarland) was hoping to capture a cute moment between her sons—Luca, 1, and 2-week-old Koa. Instead, Luca glanced at his mom and gave what TikTok users are calling a look of “pure disgust.”
In the clip, little Koa is being burped by Christie’s mom Philippa Apps, who was visiting from Cape Town, South Africa, with her husband Richard.
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"Luca walked over to my new baby and was kissing him and trying to hug him, which is why I took my camera out to take a video,” Garland told Newsweek. “I ended up catching his side eye instead.”
In her caption, the mom of two joked, “he woke up and chose violence.”
Garland, who shares her two sons with husband Mason, didn’t take the glare personally. In fact, she found it hilarious. Luca is typically besotted with his newborn sibling, asking to hold and kiss him and even play with him.
“I don’t know where the side-eye and drama came from last night, but definitely made for a funny video,” she added.
Thankfully, harmony has already been restored at home. Luca’s enthusiasm for his baby brother has returned in full force, and Garland described them as “getting along amazingly.”
The clip exploded online, clocking up 7.6 million views on TikTok and counting. In the comments, users couldn’t get enough of his reaction and guessed what he meant by the side-eye.
“So... when is it going back?” one user laughed.
“His face is like, I guess we can keep him,” another said.
A third commented, “This is the funniest thing ever, I’m dying.”
Others jumped to Luca’s defense: “He is trying so hard to be positive and helpful. Poor baby it’s hard being the new kid.”
The viral moment came as an amusing twist for Garland, who has spent years curating, filming and editing polished vlogs for her audience.
"I’ve been working on my social media for a long time, trying to grow my audience, and the fact that the one that went so viral was a video I put almost zero effort into and not the vlogs that I spend hours editing is really funny to me,” she said.
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