Manchester City striker Erling Haaland has revealed his favorite meme, and it turns out to be a viral AI-edited deepfake of himself. When a fan on Instagram asked him to name his favorite, the forward replied directly with the bizarre, viral clip.
The video features an AI face-swap of Haaland sitting at a restaurant table with puffed-out cheeks, eating with chopsticks, only to get hilariously startled by his own reflection in a mirror. The original footage actually featured a man eating before creators seamlessly mapped Haaland's face onto it.
Fans love the clip because it contrasts Haaland's terrifying, robotic reputation on the pitch with the image of him being scared of his own reflection. The striker frequently embraces his internet troll persona, having previously joked about his resemblance to Majin Buu and calling Shrek his twin.