The 'Baldi By Looking At The Tempered Glass From The Side' meme features the iconic antagonist from the indie horror game Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning, visually distorted to appear incredibly thin. The trend originated from mobile users noticing that viewing their phone screens at an extreme angle—especially through a tempered glass screen protector—creates a vertical stretching effect. When applied to Baldi’s already uncanny character model, the result is a surreal, narrow figure that the internet found hilarious. It is frequently used to mock things that look unusually skinny or to represent a person's appearance when caught in a funny, distorted perspective.