What is the Baby Wow trend?

A TikTok trend set to KAROL G’s “BbY WOW”. It has two forms: a dance challenge to the hook, and remakes of the Bby Wow Guy meme from a quinceañera.

Who started the Baby Wow dance?

The dance started with Big Bowe of the Venezuelan music trio Los Menor3s, whom KAROL G later brought on stage. In Mexico it spread through streamer Maestro Shifu’s version.

Who is the Bby Wow Guy?

The man in the black cowboy hat and rooster shirt from the viral quinceañera clip. We have not found a reliable source naming him.

How do I do the Baby Wow trend without dancing?

Make an AI remake: upload a photo of yourself to Dime Dime Baby AI and you take the Bby Wow Guy’s place in the original clip.

The Baby Wow trend on TikTok: the dance, the Bby Wow Guy meme and the AI remakes

Short answer

The Baby Wow trend is a 2026 TikTok trend set to KAROL G’s song “BbY WOW”. It has two forms: a dance challenge popularized by the Venezuelan group Los Menor3s, and the Bby Wow Guy meme, a quinceañera clip of a man in a black cowboy hat who bites a piece of bread and points at the camera. Since October 2026 people remake that meme with AI, putting themselves in his place.

By Dime Dime Baby AI · Updated October 28, 2026 · 5 min read

The Baby Wow meme in three frames: the Bby Wow Guy bites a piece of bread, spins through the guests and points at the camera

The Baby Wow trend is really two trends on one song. One is a dance challenge set to KAROL G’s “BbY WOW”. The other is a meme: the Bby Wow Guy, a man in a black cowboy hat owning the dance floor at a quinceañera. Both run under the same tags (#bbywow, #babywow, #dimedimebaby), which is why searches for “the Baby Wow trend” turn up such different videos. Here is how each one works and how to join in.

What is the Baby Wow dance challenge?

This is the version with choreography: people learn a short routine to the BbY WOW hook and film it with friends. Wikipedia credits much of the song’s TikTok takeover to Los Menor3s, a Venezuelan music trio, not a dance crew: Big Bowe filmed himself dancing to the song backstage at a Rawayana concert, and his bandmates Nego and Sheba helped it spread. KAROL G brought two of its members on stage at Gillette Stadium on September 12, 2026, and their dance appears in the song’s “Live from New York” music video.

If you want to film it yourself: shoot vertical, use the official BbY WOW sound from the app’s library rather than recording the music through your phone speaker, and learn the routine from a creator’s video at half speed before you try it at full tempo.

What is the Bby Wow Guy meme?

The second version needs no choreography, just attitude. It is built on one clip filmed at a quinceañera, a 15th-birthday party. A heavyset man with a thick mustache, a black cowboy hat, a rooster-embroidered western shirt and a big belt buckle dances through the ballroom in four beats:

The walk-in: a relaxed two-step onto the floor as the lights turn purple.
The bite: a bite of bread, mid-step, without missing the beat.
The spin: back to the camera, dancing off through the guests.
The point: right up to the lens, cheeks puffed, finger pointed at you.

Set to BbY WOW and captioned “dime dime baby”, the clip became the trend’s best-known meme and a go-to “wow” reaction. People call it the Baby Wow meme, the Baby Wow guy dancing, or the Bby Wow GIF; it is all the same 15 seconds.

Who started the Baby Wow trend?

It depends which half you mean. The dance challenge started with Los Menor3s’ Big Bowe, and in Mexico it took off as the Baby Wow Shifu trend after streamer Maestro Shifu’s version. The Bby Wow Guy clip comes from a family party, and we have not found a reliable source that names the man in it, so we will not guess. Plenty of sites claim to know the exact first video; treat those claims with care unless they link to it.

When did the Baby Wow trend start? A timeline

August 7, 2026: BbY WOW comes out on KAROL G’s album No Me Arrepiento de Sentir Tanto.
August 28: The song reaches No. 1 on Spotify’s global chart.
September 12: KAROL G dances it on stage at Gillette Stadium with two members of Los Menor3s.
September 17: First live performance with Judeline, rusowsky and Tainy together, at MetLife Stadium.
October 7: J-Hope and Jimin of BTS post the dance on TikTok; it passes 21 million views in a day.
October 15: The “Live from New York” music video comes out.
October 2026: AI remakes of the Bby Wow Guy clip take over the Dime Dime Baby tag.

How do you do the Baby Wow trend with AI?

In October 2026 the meme turned into a remake format. Instead of copying the moves, people use AI to swap themselves, or a friend who is in on the joke, into the original clip: same ballroom, same guests, same bite, same point, new face. It works because the joke is the clip itself, and seeing someone you know do the bite is funnier than any re-enactment.

That is what Dime Dime Baby AI does: upload one photo and it recreates the full clip with the original audio. The how-to guide covers photo tips, and these ideas cover who to cast.

How should you post your Baby Wow video?

Use the official sound. If your upload gets muted, add BbY WOW from the app’s sound library instead.
Caption it like the trend. “dime dime baby” plus #bbywow, #babywow and #dimedimebaby.
Label AI. TikTok, Instagram and YouTube ask you to mark realistic AI-generated video; use the AI label when you post a remake.