TikTok creator, Brianna Romero (@BrinniCakes) shared a video recalling a time when a kid's birthday cake order had gone wrong — instead of an Elmo cake ... she added. At first, the cake ...

Apparently, the cake originated from a hilarious mixup by Romero, who misread her customer’s request for an Elmo cake as an “emo cake.” Romero’s video of the cake first went viral on ...

an Elmo 1st birthday cake was posted to the blog. and Elmo Shrugging—all with their own use cases. But more than a decade after the original postings of Hellmo, this one specifically has ...

“And when I scroll back, I misread emo and it says ‘Elmo ... the cake was even retweeted by Wonder Woman herself, Lynda Carter, who joked that the cake reminded her of Eve 6, a band first ...

The woman requested the cake for her 4-year-old granddaughter's birthday. Romeo said she quickly glanced at her phone and mistakenly read "Elmo" as "emo." "I read 'emo' and I ran with it.

Two years later, an image of Elmo on the cake was superimposed onto a GIF of flames and captioned “All hail Hellmo, our dark lord of the internet,” according to the meme database Know Your Meme.