The Baby Platypus Sculpture meme centers on a small, smooth, and incredibly cute gray figurine often mistaken for a real newborn platypus. Created by Serbian fantasy artist Vladimir Petrov, photos of the sculpture went viral across platforms like Twitter and Reddit as users shared it with captions about its overwhelming cuteness or its alien-like appearance. While real baby platypuses (puggles) look quite different, the internet embraced this 'smooth' version as a symbol of something pure that must be protected at all costs. It is commonly used to represent small pieces of joy, fragile mental health, or simply to troll people who believe it is a biological animal.