Demi Lovato finally released “Poot” from the basement.
The ‘Heart Attack’ hitmaker has taken to the viral Poot meme for Halloween this year by dressing up as a joke from 10 years ago.
Lovato shared a hilarious carousel of photos and TikTok videos on Instagram on Thursday, and fans couldn’t help but rave in the comments.
In the opening slide, Lovato, 33, posed alongside the image and recreated the meme. She posted the snap with a photo of herself pretending to be locked in a garage.
One of her TikTok clips featured her acting like Poot trying to escape by lifting and banging on a garage door.
“Happy Halloween and have a happy week!!! I’ve been so cooped up in these times that I thought I’d let the putobato out,” she captioned the post, referring to her latest album, It’s Not That Deep, which was released on October 24th.
Fans were quick to hail Lovato as the Queen of Halloween while joking about the timeless internet meme.
One netizen commented, “Okay, Halloween is over, everyone. Pack your bags. This year belongs to Demi, good luck next year.”
A second social media user commented: “This is the funniest shit you’ve ever done.”
“Welcome home, we missed you,” a third person shared with a red heart emoji.
The story of Lovato’s viral puto meme dates back to 2015, when a fan posted a faded Photoshopped image of Lovato on Tumblr. The Internet user created a fictional story claiming that she was the estranged twin sister of a former Disney Channel star who was locked in a basement.
Lovato last spoke out about the viral joke in April, when she said in a TikTok video that she would “never let Poot out of her basement.”
She lip-synced to the audio on the platform and added the caption, “When someone asks me to get Poot out of the basement…”
“Wow, what an offer,” Lovato, 32, gushed in the video.
“And I never let her out,” she wrote under the post.
Lovato is good at jokes and has made several sarcastic comments about her own memes over the years. In July 2023, she told Harper’s Bazaar that she found comfort in the meme after learning it was a photoshopped photo of her, not a real photo.
“When Poot went viral online, it was really bad because I thought it was my real photo,” she told the outlet. “And I thought, ‘Oh, no. That’s a really bad angle.'” But Poot had been Photoshopped. Later, I realized that it wasn’t my face, so I felt better. ”
“But it was obviously weird when it went viral,” she continued, adding, “It’s really funny looking back.”
