Fake Cristiano Ronaldo TikTok fools everyone before ban & now there\u2019s a Messi copycat YouTube: Al-Nassr\/WikiMedia CommonsA fake Cristiano Ronaldo account has, finally, been banned by TikTok after becoming one of the fastest-growing profiles on the app ever. And now a Lionel Messi profile is trying to replicate it. TikTok might have started out as a platform solely for creatives and artists, but it has grown into something that plenty of social media users have to check out on a daily basis. It\u2019s become another outlet to share their daily lives and goings on, and, of course, celebrities are also getting involved. Whenever a new celebrity joins up and embraces a meme about themselves, their follower count usually shoots up massively. We\u2019ve seen celebrities get to over 1 million followers within their first day, however, a Cristiano Ronaldo imposter had everyone fooled \u2013 including TikTok themselves too \u2013 as it became the fastest-growing account ever. Fake Cristiano Ronaldo TikTok success leads to Messi copycat The account \u2013 named cristianoronaldo_nassrfc. \u2013 first appeared on TikTok on September 26. It began uploading highlights from the Portuguese superstar\u2019s games in Saudi Arabia. There were also videos of the imposter meeting fans intermixed with those highlights, making it seem like the real deal. A majority of videos shot up above 10 million views as the account\u2019s follower number jumped to over 6.3 million. However, as NoahGlennCarter pointed out, the account has since been terminated after it\u2019s massive success. The impersonation, plus uploading copyrighted highlights, probably made it pretty easy for TikTok to shut it down. However, it did appear that the account was being heavily pushed. Naturally, there has also been an attempt from a Lionel Messi imposter too. That is aptly named LeoMessi_CFMiami, but it hasn\u2019t garnered millions of followers like the Ronaldo one. That account has followed suit, posting two clips of highlights from Messi\u2019s games at Inter Miami. It has only picked up 100,000 followers, but has already been called out as fake by viewers. It likely won\u2019t be long before that is banned either. The clue for these accounts being fake should be the name \u2013 high-profile stars are hardly going to have teams in their usernames. So, just be wary before hitting follow on them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fake Cristiano Ronaldo TikTok fools everyone before ban & now there\u2019s a Messi copycat YouTube: Al-Nassr\/WikiMedia CommonsA fake Cristiano Ronaldo account has, finally, been banned by TikTok after becoming one of the fastest-growing profiles on the app ever. And now a Lionel Messi profile is trying to replicate it. TikTok might have started out as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}