Mark Zuckerberg Group Selfie

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About

Mark Zuckerberg Group Selfie refers to a selfie taken by Facebook, Instagram and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg with a group of employees in early 2022, originally posted to Instagram. In the photograph, they're all smiling in an uncanny way, which made many online think it was a creepy or cringy. Additionally, many used it as evidence of Zucc being a lizard, robot or alien. The image was photoshopped and exploited in various ways, the most prominent one being of everyone frowning instead of smiling.

Origin

On April 25th, 2022, Mark Zuckerberg uploaded a carousel post to Instagram^[1] with the first image being a selfie he'd taken with multiple employees at Meta's first store, opening in Burlingame, California. The post received roughly 347,700 likes over the course of two weeks (shown below).

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On April 25th, 2022, the image was reposted to /r/oddlyterrifying^[2] by Redditor LeidbagBaggins, where over the course of two weeks, it received roughly 70,400 upvotes. Within the comment section, Redditors started photoshopping the image. For instance, on April 25th, Redditor^[3] Drews232 added eyebrows, a beard and "better" hair to Zuckerberg (shown below, left). That same day, Redditor^[4] I_really_am_Batman added poorly drawn eyebrows and a beard to Zuckerberg (shown below, right).

Also on April 25th, 2022, the image was posted to /r/photoshopbattles,^[5] earning 14 upvotes in two weeks. Despite the low number of upvotes, the image received multiple photoshops. For instance, Redditor^[6] praefectus_praetorio added in the Kool-Aid Guy (shown below, left). Meanwhile, Redditor^[7] 99FrenchFries gave Zuckerberg vampire fangs (shown below, right).

On May 6th, 2022, Twitter^[8] user TCastro88 tweeted a version of the photo that showed everyone frowning instead of smiling. The tweet also included zoomed-in screenshots of different people within the photo, captioning all of them, "You cannot convince me they aren’t aliens." The tweet received roughly 664,800 likes over the course of three days (shown below, left). On May 8th, 2022, Twitter^[9] user IHPower used the frowning edit in a tweet, captioning it, "Let’s have a selfie, like the humans do," earning roughly 209,500 likes in one day (shown below, right).