Emmanuel (emu)

Emmanuel Todd Lopez (born 2014 or 2015 (age 9–10)^[1]) is an emu and TikTok personality. He lives on the hobby farm Knuckle Bump Farms in South Florida with his caretaker, Taylor Blake. Emmanuel has gone viral for TikToks in which he interrupts Blake or knocks over the camera, often involving the phrase "Emmanuel, don't do it!"

Blake became a content creator in 2013. She moved onto her family's farm in 2021 and set up a TikTok account for it. She made videos with the farm's animals before Emmanuel's first appearance in July 2022, which went viral. That month, Blake made an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Emmanuel was the target of a death hoax by disinformation firm Team Jorge and undercover journalists. When the emu got ill in October 2022, Blake initially believed he had avian influenza before determining that he was reacting to stress.