--- title: This Kid Eating an Entire Watermelon at a Cricket Game Is the First Internet Hero of 2016 description: And he's now known as Watermelon Boy canonical: https://time.com/4165770/watermelon-boy-cricket-viral/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-04T05:26:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:28:14.139Z og:title: Kid Eating a Watermelon Is the First Internet Hero of 2016 og:description: The boy was filmed at a cricket match eating an entire watermelon, rind and all. og:url: https://time.com/4165770/watermelon-boy-cricket-viral/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kid Eating a Watermelon Is the First Internet Hero of 2016 twitter:description: The boy was filmed at a cricket match eating an entire watermelon, rind and all. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Kid Eating an Entire Watermelon at a Cricket Game Is the First Internet Hero of 2016 by [Alex Heigl / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Alex Heigl / People Jan 4, 2016 5:26 AM UTC by [Alex Heigl / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Alex Heigl / People Jan 4, 2016 5:26 AM UTC Everyone, meet Watermelon Boy. Watermelon Boy, everyone. Watermelon Boy, you see, is a kid who was attending a cricket match in Melbourne, Australia, Saturday, when he was filmed in the stands consuming an entire watermelon, rind and all. The game’s commentators were understandably puzzled and riveted: “That’s… I’ve never seen that before in my life,” one commentator said; the other added, “That is unbelievable.” Turns out Watermelon Boy has celebrity blood: he’s the son of Melbourne’s SEN 1116 radio host and sports reporter Tony Schibeci, who revealed the Boy’s identity to all the world Saturday. > [](https://twitter.com/theschibecsta/status/683173656051093504) The kid made some decent progress by the end of the game as well. > [](https://twitter.com/theschibecsta/status/683234334241767424) Enjoy your time in the spotlight, Watermelon Boy: It’s a whole new week of content starting Monday and the cycle moves pretty quickly. Maybe they’ll be a new cat or a kid saying “apparently” soon or something. [_This article originally appeared on People.com_](http://www.people.com/article/watermelon-boy-internet-cricket-game) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4165770/watermelon-boy-cricket-viral/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4165770/watermelon-boy-cricket-viral/"},"headline":"This Kid Eating an Entire Watermelon at a Cricket Game Is the First Internet Hero of 2016","datePublished":"2016-01-04T05:26:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:28:14.139Z","description":"And he's now known as Watermelon Boy","url":"https://time.com/4165770/watermelon-boy-cricket-viral/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Bizarre"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alex Heigl / People"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4165770/watermelon-boy-cricket-viral/","name":"This Kid Eating an Entire Watermelon at a Cricket Game Is the First Internet Hero of 2016"}}]}] ```