Tyler Robitaille had one task: hold the baby for a family photo.
He failed.
While distracted by his toddler who was standing to the side, Tyler took his hand off his then 6-month-old daughter, and she slowly toppled to the side while staring at the camera the whole way down.
Tyler’ss wife Stephanie posted footage of that rather hilarious photo fail on TikTok … and it has now been played over 83 million times.
You’ll definitely want to watch this.
“At first I was just sharing it with family and friends,” Stephanie tells TODAY.com. Because they enjoyed the video so much, she added the music from “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and posted the video on TikTok in late December.
“I woke up the next morning after posting it and was like, 6 million views,” she says. “I was like, ‘Oh no, what have I done?'”
Stephanie shares what was happening behind the scenes on the photo shoot.
Hoping to grab a family photo at Thanksgiving, Stephanie started the video recording on her phone while trying to bribe … err, convince … her 3-year-old son to participate. She was hoping he would just enter the frame for a moment so she could get a screenshot of the four of them.
No babies were harmed in this hilarious viral photo fail.Courtesy Stephanie Robitaille
Tyler was stabilizing the baby while they talked to their toddler, “and then he just suddenly forgot that he was holding her, and then she just, you know, gracefully, fell down on the carpet,” Stephanie says.
Next, Stephanie scooped up her daughter immediately, simultaneously soothing her, assessing potential injuries and glaring at her husband. Edits highlight the moment she wrenched his hand off the baby as well as Tyler’s agonized face as he realized what happened.
The moment they realized the baby had toppled over onto the carpet. (She was fine!) Courtesy Stephanie Robitaille
She reassures TODAY.com it was an inconsequential spill with no resulting injuries: “It was carpet. It was maybe the tiniest fall. So no need to call the authorities on me. She cried for like two seconds, I nursed her and then she was totally fine.”
Stephanie adds, “A little photo op turned into a quite crazy viral moment.”
Stephanie says this is the moment her husband knew he had messed up. Courtesy Stephanie Robitaille
Some of the viewers’ comments find levity in the moment, while others roast Tyler:
“How do you forget you’re holding a baby?””Dad reflexes 0/10.””You had ONE JOB!!! 🙄🤣🤦♀️”
Luckily, both Tyler and Stephanie take the comments in stride.
“At first I was like, ‘Oh, sorry, Ty. You are getting absolutely annihilated online,'” Stephanie shares. “But we’re pretty easygoing, so nothing really is bothering us from that.”
Will this experience change the way they take family photos moving forward?
“Not for me, particularly,” jokes Stephanie. “Probably for my husband!”