Baby Jhon //top\\ [ EXTENDED ]

“He started to hate the color green,” Elena says. “Because that was the color of the soup in the video.”

Elena walks us to the door. On the wall hangs a framed print of the original video’s most famous frame: Jhon, mid-growl, eyes wide, spoon suspended in mid-air. It is not a trophy. It is a reminder. baby jhon

But the real Baby Jhon is done with soup. He is done with being a symbol. He is in kindergarten, learning to read, struggling with subtraction, and dreaming of becoming a firefighter or, in his words, “a guy who drives the garbage truck with the claw.” “He started to hate the color green,” Elena says