Introduction
Jank Boteko was a meme created by TikTok Custom Wood Burning (@customwoodburning). The meme’s picture was of a baby with a deformed head. This meme became popular among the TikTok regular viewers in 2023. Various images of that baby were projected through that social media live. This incident raised controversies worldwide. Some social activists and humanitarians including some psychologists raised their voices against the promotion of this social media live where the images of the deformed head baby were the subject of laughter again and again. In this article, we will explore the social and cultural drawbacks behind this perverted social media activity. We also discuss the views of psychologists on why the activity of the CWB proves that our mind is deformed and distorted.
Background
Jank Boteko is also referred to as Jank Boteko ❤️ Didi. This meme was titled with that baby to ridicule its look. The images of that baby were used to make comedy by the TikTokers. The TikToker Cat Terdz @Cat_terdz posted the lives many times from her page. The original name of that baby was Jaxon Buell. He was born on the 27th August of 2014 in Florida. His head was deformed due to a rare disease of Microhydranencephaly. The 80 per cent portion of his brain was missing for this disease.
Social Media And That Baby
The images of that deformed head baby became viral somehow on various social media platforms. This baby died in 2020 when his age was only five. The incident of his death was normal. But, the creation of the social media meme on social media was very controversial and blameworthy. This meme was banned from promotion on social media including TikTok due to the massive protest of social activists and humanitarians.
Controversy And Legal Ban on the Jank Boteko Meme
The controversy over the Jank Boteko meme was raised massively. Most people did not see it as abnormal to show this baby comically on different social media. Various shopping companies used the images of that baby in their various shopping items. They printed jank boteko images on bed covers, T-shirts and other garments. Many people were looking for garments and other clothes which were printed or designed with the images of that baby with a deformed head. Some people such as social activists and many humanitarians raised their protest against such activities where the deformity of a baby became the act of laughter and business. They signed up many petitions and submitted them to respective governments. Different social media platforms including TikTok company restricted showing this meme on their sites.
Social And Cultural Drawbacks Behind the Jank Boteko Meme
There are social and cultural drawbacks to this meme. People of all ages ridiculed the people despite their being babies for their physical or mental weakness. We can experience different stories in English literature that were written to ridicule the physical weakness of a certain man or woman. The people are naturally prone to exercise power politics on the weak people. The physical and mental torture of strong men on weak men is the truth forever. Here about the Jank Boteko meme, that baby was physically weak and his had was not normal like the other babies. So he became part of the laughter of the so-called stronger and healthy people.
Views of the Psychologists
Psychologists consider this meme as the act of the perverted mind of human beings. They think that the person who created this meme on the deformed head baby s/he must be deformed in his/her mind. They also think that only a deformed mind person can do such child-like negative activity. There is a great question about his/her cognitive development. The other persons who shared and viewed this post again and again they were also suffered from the issue of mental deformity. Many shopping companies and organizations use images of that deformed head baby still now. They are not out of the claim of these psychologists.
Conclusion
The above article has covered the incident of Jank Boteko meme. The pattern of the meme was negative. The TikToker who created this meme must suffer from mental deformity. The social and cultural drawbacks have been portrayed in this article in reference to the TikTok meme. Psychologists consider this act similar to the cognitive distortion of the mind of the TikToker and the organizations that use the images of that deformed-head baby. The users of many social media platforms created comic lives the images of the baby. All of those lives were restricted due to legal and ethical obligations based on social media regulations.
