| Baby Shark | |
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Real Name |
Baby Shark |
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First Appearance |
Folk song (20th century) |
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Created by |
Folk song |
Origins[]
Baby Shark is an infant shark who lives with their nuclear family - they like to hunt, as sharks are typically portrayed in media, hunting smaller animals when the song is sung to young children, and preying on humans when the song is sung to older children ("lost a leg/arm, CPR/911, out of time" being popular endings for the more morbid iteration of the rhyme). The song is sung with hands being clapped vertically to resemble jaws snapping, progressing between different family member names with the chorus "doo doo doo..."
Notes[]
- Baby Shark was popularized by Korean children's music label Pinkfong, their iteration of Baby Shark - also named "Brooklyn" - is comparatively friendlier than earlier versions, and coloured yellow. He remains under copyright, and is often wrongly assumed by many to be the originator of the nursery rhyme.
- "Baby Shark" is a trademark of Smart Study, the owners of Pinkfong.