For those of you who are following the exploding interest in the YouTube video of Helwig's grandson, this morning Emerson is the most-favourited YouTube video in Canada, in all genres.
He's also starting to work his way up the YouTube most-viewed charts in Argentina, Spain. Mexico, France, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Netherlands, Poland, Brazil , Russia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Czech Republic and Sweden.
You're not a real Internet celebrity until you've been on PerezHilton.com?
Hey, Emerson is even there!
As of 5 a.m., almost 40,000 people have placed Emerson on their Facebook pages.
YouTube shows 281,924 viewers so far.
And the parodies have begun.
The spoof movie trailer shown above is Mommy Karen's favourite of the video parodies and commentaries so far.
Some other video responses follow.
For those of you who've been living under a rock the past couple of days, we've also included the original video at the bottom.
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