Overview

• Paytas welcomed her son, Aquaman Moses, on July 12 and revealed his birth publicly on July 22, coinciding with Ozzy Osbourne’s death at age 76.
• Social media users quickly revived a long-running meme suggesting her newborn is the musician reborn following the timing overlap.
• Between July 27 and 28, Paytas posted TikTok videos rejecting the reincarnation theories as trolling-driven memes.
• In her videos she stressed that the jokes ignore the real grief of Osbourne’s family and leave her feeling unfairly burdened by coincidence.
• This episode adds to past instances of people linking her children’s births to celebrity deaths, from Queen Elizabeth II in 2022 to Pope Francis earlier this year.