THE Guinness-guzzling toddler who went viral is completely unrecognisable today.
The clip sent the internet into meltdown after the footage from the 90s showed the baby casually drinking Guinness in a pub in Ireland.
The clip resurfaced in 2017, with the 25-year-old vid showing the toddler drinking from a pint of Guinness while sitting on his mum's lap in a pub.
The footage was originally broadcast by Irish national broadcaster RTÉ in 1997 with the description: "You won't see this on TV nowadays."
It was filmed during a television report on the scarcity of single women in County Clare.
The camera accidentally caught the thirsty child with both hands gripping the pint of stout.
People immediately took to the story as #pintbaby began doing the rounds on Twitter.
Cian McCormack, who originally published the video, managed to find Pintbaby, Steve Barron, in 2017 in Prosperous, County Kildare.
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Twenty-year-old Steven told RTE News: "I don't really mind (the attention), I'd rather be called Steven than pint baby though."
While there have been a couple of people criticising Steven's mother for allowing him to drink at that age, Steven himself was quick to downplay it.
He said: "I suppose everyone can relate to it, I'm sure I'm not the only one. I'm just the only one who got filmed doing it."
The now 25-year-old's mother Caroline told how they ended up in front of the cameras after going into Daly's Pub in Ennistymon, County Clare.
Steven's mother Caroline said: "There was filming going on in the pub, we were there – there was great fun and atmosphere and craic.
"Stephen was sitting on my knee and he took a shine to a pint of Guinness.
She added: "It was only a drop of Guinness, there's plenty of parents even to this day that would do it, there's no harm in it.
"He's turned out perfectly fine and there's no bother on him."
Steven revealed that his career ambitions don't lie with Guinness or alcohol in any way, and has become a blacksmith.
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