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What Cleopatra May Have Looked Like refers to a copypasta which reads, "Scientists at Harvard University have created this 3D Model depicting what ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra may have looked like." The person then posts a picture of a celebrity or 3D-rendered character for humorous effect.

Origin

On February 18th, 2018, Twitter user @lovemedown^[1] posted the copypasta with a 3D-rendered depiction of pop star Britney Spears from the 2002 video game Britney's Dance Beat, gaining over 3,800 retweets and 12,000 likes (shown below).

Spread

Following @lovemedown's tweet, a significant amount of people took the tweet seriously, and responded with anger, thinking it was real news. Twitter user @jonhausler responded to the tweet by demanding the article instead of "unverified pictures" (shown below, left). Twitter user @Jack_Stout_II corrected @lovemedown, saying Cleopatra was Greek and Macdeonian, therefore would not have blonde hair (shown below, right).

Other Twitter users understood the joke of the original tweet and began posting variations of their own with different pop stars and 3D-modeled characters. User @danababy97 posted a variation that gained over 1,600 retweets and 7,200 likes (shown below, left). Twitter user @iconickkk uploaded the copypasta with a picture of Club Penguin, gaining over 290 retweets and 1,100 likes (shown below, right). The moment was covered by The Daily Dot^[2] and Nylon Magazine.^[3]

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