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Fake Sylvester Stallone Tweet Reacting To Bell Pepper Lookalike

This meme features a fabricated screenshot of a verified Twitter/X post from an account impersonating Sylvester Stallone (@TheSlyStallone) with the caption 'Stop sending me this shit'. Below the tweet is a 2-panel comparison: the left panel is an official still of Sylvester Stallone playing Rocky Balboa from the Rocky film franchise, screaming with his mouth wide open, face bruised and sweaty, with an American flag in the background. The right panel is a photo of a sliced green bell pepper that has an uncanny natural resemblance to Stallone's expression in the left image, with ridges on the pepper that look like Stallone's hair and a natural cavity that perfectly matches his open yelling mouth. The humor comes from the absurdly close visual match between the vegetable and the iconic actor's famous scene, paired with the over-the-top fake annoyed reaction from Stallone pretending he is tired of people sending him the comparison.
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Two panel side-by-side comparison of Sylvester Stallone's iconic yelling scene as Rocky Balboa and a visually identical sliced green bell pepper

Overview

This meme features a fabricated screenshot of a verified Twitter/X post from an account impersonating Sylvester Stallone (@TheSlyStallone) with the caption 'Stop sending me this shit'. Below the tweet is a 2-panel comparison: the left panel is an official still of Sylvester Stallone playing Rocky Balboa from the Rocky film franchise, screaming with his mouth wide open, face bruised and sweaty, with an American flag in the background. The right panel is a photo of a sliced green bell pepper that has an uncanny natural resemblance to Stallone's expression in the left image, with ridges on the pepper that look like Stallone's hair and a natural cavity that perfectly matches his open yelling mouth. The humor comes from the absurdly close visual match between the vegetable and the iconic actor's famous scene, paired with the over-the-top fake annoyed reaction from Stallone pretending he is tired of people sending him the comparison.

Origin notes

This edited meme was sourced from Reddit's r/Meme subreddit as specified in the provided source information. The tweet shown in the meme is completely fake, Sylvester Stallone never publicly posted this message. The original core joke of the bell pepper resembling Stallone's Rocky yelling face circulated online for several years before this iteration was created as a remix that combines the existing lookalike comparison with the popular fake celebrity reaction tweet meme format to add additional comedic effect.

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