

“Daddy” applies to a wide swath of men who do not qualify as “zaddy.” Daddy is also personal. For me, Jeff Goldblum counts, but so does William Zabka, the man who plays Johnny Lawrence in the Karate Kid franchise, who has aged like a fine wine. A man who never, ever counts as daddy, is Dr. Phil.
I was unaware that there were any people on this earth that thought of Dr. Phil as daddy aside from his literal children, but it seems the children that populate TikTok have been storming the comments of his insipid content calling him daddy. And he’d very much like you to stop. Unfortunately, this TikTok I’m about to share was served to me on my FYP, which means that my algorithm is wonky and I have to fix it, fast.