A mum has hit back after she was slammed for turning her daughter into a “gothic baby”.
Rebecca Hardy, otherwise known as Reby Sky on social media, has gained a huge following for documenting an amusing “skit” series on TikTok called “Day in the life of a gothic baby”.
The videos follow the daily life of her youngest child – toddler girl Ever, nicknamed “Eevee”, who has a gothic-inspired nursery – complete with a throne and a wardrobe full of black tiny outfits.
In one of her latest videos, the American mum-of-four responded to a UK talk show after the hosts described her gothic baby’s lifestyle as “toxic”.
Rebecca, a former professional wrestler and model, captioned the post: “Gothic Baby plays in her zen garden, becomes queen and smacks wrestling superstar Matt Hardy”.
‘It’s toxic’
She starts the video with clips of the British talk show, Loose Women, where one of the hosts weighed in about the toddler’s lifestyle, saying: “It’s toxic, I don’t like it, it’s a baby”.
Voicing the video from the perspective of little Eevee, the mum explains what a day in the life of a “gothic baby” looks like.
“I wake up to find a television talk show in the UK has been speaking ill of gothic baby,” she begins, before showing her toddler sitting on a gothic style throne.
“To this I say, move over Camilla, there’s a new Queen now – it’s me.”
She continues, saying the talk show has left Gothic Baby “shaken” and is now in need of her zen garden for “peace”.
And after a few minutes of relaxation, Gothic Baby says she’s feeling “much better”.
Gothic Baby, who’s reminiscent of Wednesday Addams, hates colour.
So Gothic Baby is unimpressed when her afternoon rolls around and she’s faced with “colour exposure therapy” in her “colour room”.
“Mother pestering me with stupid questions,” the voiceover says.
Rebecca – who’s married to former WWE husband Matt Hardy – then asks her daughter: ‘Do you like colours?’
Before Gothic Baby replies with a simple: “No!”
‘Taking over the world’
Gothic Baby is then seen playing with an inflatable globe.
“In protest, I plot how to take over the rest of the world,” she says.
The video concludes with “bed time” where her dad was seen placing his youngest daughter down to sleep.
“I bid father farewell,” she says, before smacking her dad.
“As I lay my head down in my gothic crib, listening to Bauhaus.
Fans of Gothic Baby flocked to video, which has now been viewed more than 13.4 million times, to “bow down” to the toddler.
“Gothic baby is the new queen of the us,” one fan wrote.
“I love it. She even has a colour room so it’s not like she’s not learning what she’s supposed to. Ugh this is what my house would be if I had the chance bravo mama,” another said.
‘Gothic baby for queen’
While a third commented: “Gothic baby for queen. Love your style and she’s clearly a very loved and looked after little girl.”
Others berated the talk show.
“That talk show knows nothing – gothic baby will always be forever – I would dress my child like this,” one mum to be shared.
“Bunch of grown Karens picking on a baby,” another blatantly put it.
“As a toddler mother in the UK, I’m taking all my inspiration from you,” one Brit said.
In another video posted to the social media site, Rebecca explains that she began using the now infamous voiceover voice late at night to “not wake” Eevee up.
“(It’s) part of a satirical response to people saying that using dark colours in my decorum made me satanic,” she explained.
She then goes on to discuss the ITV talk show, hitting back at the hosts and explaining that Gothic Baby “is a skit”.
“It seems like every single thing about this story they’ve gotten wrong or they’ve painted their own assumptions,” she says.
Playing a section of the talk show where one of the co-hosts asks: “Are parents using their kids as a prop to then fill a void in their life?”
‘I don’t need my baby for clout’
Rebecca responds: “Prop? I’m trying to find and build community – alternative mums – home decor – dark home decor.
“I don’t need my baby for clout.
Before joking about her famous wrestling husband: “I have my husband for that.”
She then questions how her gothic decorum is any different to those who decorate their baby’s nursery in “monochromatic pink or monochromatic blue”.
“Or is it just toxic and pushing my thoughts and what I want onto my baby because it’s dark colour?” she says.
“Do you realise how crazy this sounds, this is about colour!”
‘It’s ok to be different’
She finished her response with an inspiring message for others.
“I hope people will see this and go, ‘hey, it’s ok to be different.”
