Trisha Paytas might be an internet meme queen, but the viral conspiracy theories that her newborn baby is Ozzy Osbourne reincarnated are too much even for her.
In TikToks posted Sunday (July 27), the social media star reacted to the unrelenting jokes online about the Black Sabbath frontman — who died at the age of 76 July 22 — coming back to life in the form of her 2-week-old son, Aquaman Moses. The YouTuber had announced the birth of her new addition on the same day that Osbourne died, sparking the latest wave of reincarnation memes in a running gag that dates back to when Paytas welcomed her first baby in September 2022, just days after Queen Elizabeth II passed away.
Paired with an audio snippet of Osbourne’s screamed intro on 1980’s “Crazy Train,” Paytas’ first video on the subject shows her holding baby Aquaman and staring vacantly into the distance. “What plays in my head 12 days postpartum and the internet won’t stop with the reincarnation theories,” she wrote.
In a second video, the influencer closes out a 10-minute catchup on postpartum life — which for her has involved watching Mike & Molly reruns as well as Happy Gilmore 2 — by further addressing the jokes. “I know the reincarnation theories about my babies [are] just, like, a meme, it’s just what the internet does,” she tells the camera while cradling Aquaman. “But I’m not going to lie: Being 12 days postpartum sometimes makes me feel a little cuckoo. I’m like, ‘Wait, why does the internet keep wanting to put souls into my baby?’”
The posts come about three years after Paytas — who is a self-proclaimed internet troll in her own right — first became the subject of an absurd online conspiracy theory that her first child, daughter Malibu Barbie, was the reincarnation of the late Queen of England. The memes were revived in 2024 when King Charles was diagnosed with cancer during Paytas’ second pregnancy with daughter Elvis, and again earlier this year when Pope Francis passed away while the podcaster was still expecting Aquaman.
“The queen, OK, kind of funny … Pope Francis, eh, OK,” Paytas continues in her second video. “But you guys, Ozzy has real families, and he is such an icon … it’s more real, Ozzy’s more real, and there’s real family and real people involved.”
“It’s not my uterus, y’all doing it,” she adds of the theories. “It makes me sad, it makes me feel like I did something wrong, you know?”
Paytas shares her three children with husband Moses Hacmon, whom she married in 2021. The star is an O.G. YouTuber previously known for making outlandish claims and fueling controversies on her platforms, but in recent years, she’s been focused more on family life, her Just Trish podcast — which featured Lizzo as a guest earlier this year — and launching Trisha Paytas’ Big Broadway Dream in February.
And while one corner of the internet might be running with the jokes about Paytas’ son in the wake of Osbourne’s death, the rest of the music world has been left in shock with the loss of one of rock’s biggest stars. There has been an outpouring of condolences from artists and fans alike ever since the Prince of Darkness’ family announced the news on July 22, writing in a statement at the time, “It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning … He was with his family and surrounded by love.”
See Paytas’ TikToks below.
