Check out how this boy avoided getting his face smashed into his birthday cake

An El Paso boy’s quick thinking during a twisted birthday tradition is caught on camera, and the video is going viral.

Arianna Montoya sent ABC-7 her video of the celebration. As the people surrounding the birthday boy chant, “mordida,” meaning “bite” in English, they begin pushing the back of the boy’s head into the cake. That is when the boy whips out a styrofoam plate and puts it in front of his face, thwarting the attempt to cover him with frosting.

The video is going viral with 3.8 million views, more than 10,000 reactions and 10,000 comments.