Baby Shark goes viral again as fans react to original star’s return

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00:00A new video just revealed that the little boy from the Baby Shark music video is now a teenager

00:04and the internet cannot handle it. Park Jan-Rung, who starred in Pinkfong's original viral hit back

00:11in 2016, was only six years old when he sang and danced to Baby Shark.

00:17But fast forward almost a decade later, Park is now 17 and fans are freaking out.

00:30One TikTok comment read, wait, I'm that old? And another added, I thought I was older than him.

00:35The reveal comes during the 10th anniversary of Baby Shark, which has racked up over 16 billion

00:40views on YouTube, making it the platform's most watched video ever. What originally started as

00:45a campfire song has evolved into a global phenomenon after being officially recorded in 2015 by South

00:51Korean company Pinkfong as a part of their educational content. The song has topped Billboard charts,

00:56fueled a worldwide dance challenge, and is still going strong 10 years later.

01:01To celebrate a decade of Baby Shark, Pinkfong is rolling out live events,

01:05SeaWorld celebrations, and even a limited edition vinyl this year. Meanwhile,

01:09the song keeps popping up everywhere, from strangers singing it on a train to cheer up a crying kid,

01:22to Kaisenon and his crew dancing to it at 5am.

01:26The song is still everywhere. But for now, the Baby Shark boy is all grown up, the song is officially

01:3610, and the rest of us, we're just realizing how fast time swims by. Share your thoughts and

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