The original pic behind the ‘fat Sabrina Carpenter’ meme proves how problematic it is

Sabrina Carpenter has over the weekend fell victim to a trend where a picture of her on Fallon has been edited to make her look a lot different than how she actually looks. Not just completely different to how she looked in that appearance on Fallon, but literally how different she looks at any point in her life. The nasty trend has seen Sabrina Carpenter edited to look fat, and it’s unfortunately being shared by a lot of skinny people online and they’re posting it when they’ve eaten some junk food. There are now loads of variations of it going viral – but the origin of the ‘fat Sabrina Carpenter meme’ is totally different than the viral pics, even down to the outfit.

The original edit

Over the past week as October began, the picture started circulating with posts like “Ate entire sub after I said I was going to save half for tomorrow.” These sent the image viral and spawned all the further edits. A lot of these edits included it being in low quality.

The circulation of this image spawned a big viral tweet rightly calling this meme out for fatphobia. One popular tweet that got over 149,000 likes was one quote calling out the fat Sabrina Carpenter meme as an example of “Remember when I talked about fatphobia coming back?”

Herein lies the issue: People using AI to edit famous women without consent, completely distorting their appearance for the purpose of Stan Twitter. It’s not just fatphobic, it’s misogynistic.

There was then a ‘thin’ edit

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Instead of posting the actual image this edit trend came from, a further reaction image came from this edit of the meme to show Sabrina slimmer. But the original picture behind the meme shows how far things have gone.

Here’s the unedited

Via Fallon

The original image is not only showing Sabrina Carpenter looking completely different and – like she actually looks. The picture is from her appearance on Fallon over a year ago when she was promoting her last record Short N Sweet. The clothes in the viral meme are totally different.

There’s even a video edit

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The video edit shows Sabrina laughing, and again – it’s completely AI.

The whole thing just reinforces the idea that fat bodies are the butt of the joke. Trying not to be the friend who’s too woke here, but it’s all very “skinny and gorgeous” 2016 era internet isn’t it? You’d think and hope we were past all this.

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