The Squid Game Papa meme and I’m the Easter Bunny meme are two viral TikTok trends combining squid game memes, and baby edits using Squid Game characters like Gi-Hun and the Front Man. Here’s a full breakdown of their origins, popularity, and why they’re everywhere in 2025.
Squid Game Papa Meme Explained
What is the Squid Game Papa Meme?
The Papa Meme Is a Random Baby Photo With Squid Game Faces that went viral in June 2025
| Meme |  Squid Games Papa (I’m the Easter Bunny) |
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| Went Viral |  June 2025 |
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| Origin | Tiktok, Netflix, Youtube, Reddit |
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| Tldr | Viral June 2025 TikTok trends featuring baby edits of Seong Gi-hun and the Front Man, with AI voiceovers like “papa?” and “I’m the Easter Bunny.” |
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| Skibidi Score | 3🚽 |
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The Squid Game Papa meme is a TikTok trend which went viral in June 2025, where a character called the Front Man (played by Lee Byung-hun) is shown holding a baby version of Player 456, aka Seong Gi-hun (played by Lee Jung-Jae). The totally memeable image is literally just their faces cropped onto some cartoon of someone cradling a baby. Over it plays an Ai baby voice saying “papa? papa?”.
Some people say the meme was inspired by a dramatic scene in Squid Game where 456 sacrifices himself and the Front Man ends up holding a baby. But honestly, the connection is thin. This meme really has nothing to do with the plot, it’s just funny on its own. That’s kind of what makes it perfect.
The meme has actually been around since the start of 2025 and even went semi-viral back then, but it didn’t fully take off until now. In July, it’s blown up everywhere, TikTok feeds are full of papa meme edits, weird remixes, and people commenting “papa??” on totally unrelated videos. It’s reached that level where no one really knows why it’s funny, but everyone’s in on the joke anyway.
I’m the Easter Bunny Squid Game Meme Explained
I’m the Easter bunny (papa) Tiktok By @catsieen0xThe “I’m the Easter Bunny” meme is another Squid Game–based trend that’s taken over TikTok, and just like the papa meme, it kind of makes no sense but is still hilarious. The meme shows the squid game actor, Lee Jung-jae, wearing a big white Easter Bunny headpiece with floppy ears and cartoon eyes. There’s no clear origin for the image, and honestly no explanation as to why it exists or how it became a meme. It just showed up online one day and instantly felt meme-worthy.
The phrase “I’m the Easter Bunny” gets added over the image and that’s really the whole joke. The sound used in these edits originally comes from TikTok user @official.mrhungry, who went viral in 2024 for posting videos of himself covered in chocolate and growling out absurd phrases like “I’m the Easter Bunny” which is the audio now used in the meme. Some TikToks now combine the two memes by editing the papa image and the Easter Bunny image into one video. Most of the TikToks are just random edits of the characters dancing or spinning around with the papa or Easter Bunny sound on top.
Squid Game Papa Meme (I’m The Easter Bunny) Origin
The Squid Game Papa and Easter Bunny Meme Took Off on TikTok in 2025
The Squid Game papa meme has been floating around since early 2025. Some of the earliest posts used the same baby-cradling image with different Squid Game characters photoshopped in. By March, it started picking up more traction on Youtube, Tiktok and especially in Reddit threads. But it wasn’t until late June 2025 that the meme fully blew up on TikTok, mostly thanks to the iconic baby voice that softly says “papa?” over the image. That audio is said to come from a video of an AI-generated baby video, not related to Squid Game at all, but it matched the meme perfectly and made it way funnier.
As for the “I’m the Easter Bunny” meme, it comes from a real photo of Lee Jung-jae wearing a bunny headband, originally featured in Netflix Queue Issue 20. The image started popping up in TikTok and Instagram edits along with the “I’m the Easter Bunny” sound layered over it. There’s no clear original post for the meme, however it’s now pretty much unavoidable on TikTok. The memes didn’t start together, but now you’ll see the papa and the I’m the Easter Bunny memes side by side in edits, thanks to TikTok doing its thing.
Squid Game Papa Meme (I’m The Easter Bunny) Meaning
The Memes are Trolling on Squid Games Actors (Lee Byung-hun, Lee Jung-Jae) With Papa Baby Vibes
There’s no deeper meaning behind these memes, and that’s kind of the point. The papa meme is just a serious-faced man holding a poorly edited baby. The Easter Bunny one is just a photo of Lee Jung-jae in a bunny headpiece with a funny voiceover. Neither has context, and neither needs it. They work because they’re random and feel like something your brain made up at 2am.
This type of humor always hits on TikTok, with weird sound clips that stick in your head and totally random videos that have absolutely no context. People keep dropping “papa?” or “I’m the Easter Bunny” in the comments like it’s some kind of secret language. Even viewers who have no idea what Squid Game is or haven’t watched a single episode (guilty ✋) are still engaging with the memes because they’re weird and funny in the best way.
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