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.”
The ‘babygirlification’ of the Roy siblings and overabundance of pretentious thought-pieces online is a clear testament to the empathetic portrayal of each character.
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.