It’s been a full decade since Poot Lovato had her last taste of freedom — and according to Demi Lovato, the hilarious, fictitious alter ego is staying locked up for many decades more.
In a TikTok video posted Monday (April 21), the singer-songwriter poked fun at the mega-viral meme from 2015 by lip-synching to an audio snippet with the prompt, “When someone asks me to let Poot out of the basement…”
“What an offer, let me sleep on it though,” Lovato mouths along sarcastically, staring pointedly at the camera.
The “Sorry Not Sorry” musician added in their caption, “And I’m never letting her out.”
The video marks one of several times Lovato has acknowledged Poot over the years, with the character first emerging from an unflattering edited photo of the star walking the 2014 Royal Variety Performance red carpet. The following year, a Tumblr user shared the manufactured snap and identified the altered face in it as “Demi’s twin sister.”
“She was locked in a basement her whole life,” they added at the time. “This picture was taken the first time she went outside. Her name is Poot.”
The user’s claim about the photo was, of course, as absurd as it was false — but that’s exactly why it spread like wildfire online in 2015 as more and more people piled onto the joke. Lovato only fueled the flames when she tweeted at the time, “Cool to see a s–tty angle turn into a meme that circulates the Internet to people’s amusement,” but the vocalist has since embraced the humor of Poot. In 2018, for instance, the Camp Rock alum joked on X, “Poot is locked up … She’s allergic to sunlight,” and in 2023, Lovato celebrated their 31st birthday with a batch of cupcakes decorated with edible photos of Poot.
See Lovato’s latest Poot update below.
