“Nepo baby” is one of those terms that was thrown around a lot in 2022, and the New York Magazine recently took things one step further by publishing an entire cover story about it. People on Twitter were having a field day after it came out, making fun of the article itself and the term “nepo baby” as a whole.
The buzzy term refers to celebrities who owe their fame to nepotism because they had a leg up in Hollywood thanks to being related to actors, singers, and other famous figures. The list of celebrities who made it to the cover includes the likes of Dakota Johnson, Ben Platt, Maya Hawke, and Zoë Kravitz, but did all of them deserve to be there?
The article quickly went viral, but for all the wrong reasons. The conversation about “nepo babies” isn’t new in Hollywood, especially after several celebrities received backlash for denying their privilege, but readers felt that the New York Magazine went too far this time around.
They felt that some of the stars weren’t worthy of the “nepo baby” title, making fun of the far-fetched connections that the writers found. The article inspired Twitter and Instagram users to describe many fictional characters as “nepo babies” for the most hilarious of reasons, and it quickly became a joke—just like its silly cover.
