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Baby Mugging: Baby mug shots sweep the Internet

All hail the power of perspective photography!

Manipulating images to create weird and amazing visuals has long been an internet staple, and yet people keep finding new, inspired memes. People are incredible that way.

Ilana Wiles is the mastermind behind the latest photo trend. The mommy blogger snapped a shot of her five-month-old daughter, Harlow, as she lay smiling on the ground.

At the last minute, Wiles placed a coffee mug in front of her daughter to make it look as though a mini-Harlow were poking out of the cup. The result? Pure adorableness.

An insta-meme was born.

Once she posted the image to her blog, Facebook and Instagram accounts, hundreds of moms flooded her inbox with similar shots of their baby mug shots.

She knew she’d made it when the idea garnered its own hashtag (#babymugging) and even received mention on Jimmy Kimmel.

“There's a new internet trend that, believe it or not, is not annoying. It's called baby mugging,” he told viewers (via Daily Mail.)

“You hold a coffee mug between the camera and your baby to make it look like your kid is in the mug. If you're feeling fancy you can also put your baby in a teacup.”

As internet memes seem to go, this one should sputter and burn out within a matter of days. But in the meantime, parents have come up with some truly inspired ideas, like stuffing two children into a mug at the same time, giving their little ones props (the ladle one for the win) and even placing their baby headfirst in the mug so that their tiny little legs stick out.

For a gallery of mugging babies, click on Wiles' website. And if there’s a little one at home with a great sense of humour, crack out that Timmy’s mug and submit your own mini masterpiece.