Does a viral video show real reactions of the people who watched Bad Bunny's 2026 Super Bowl halftime show in the stadium? No, that's not true: The clip was marked as containing AI generated media. The video showed characteristic, AI-associated glitches such as people with three arms and two hands.
The claim originated from a video (archived here) published on TikTok on February 10, 2026, under the caption:
Bad Bunny Superbowl Halftime Show Reactions. Yikes. 😬 #badbunny #superbowl #fyp #fypシ #fypシ゚viral
Text appearing across the screen throughout the clip continued:
Some people laughed at him.
Most people we're confused
What did he say?
This is what the video's thumbnail looked like on TikTok at the time of writing:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshots of post at tiktok.com/@jimmemepage)
The 1-minute 30-second clip purported to capture people of diverse backgrounds at a stadium. Many of them look into the camera, either appearing confused, laughing, or visibly disapproving of what they see. That included a young man mumbling, "Man, you are... better than this" (at the 01:11 mark) and a teenager saying, "That's gross" (at the 1:22 mark).
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshots of post at tiktok.com/@jimmemepage)
The bottom of the video, however, showed a disclaimer warning that the clip contained AI-produced media:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of post at tiktok.com/@jimmemepage)
TikTok says (archived here) that it requires users to be transparent about the use of such materials and urges people to report cases when the use of AI was not properly disclosed. The same policy states that the social media platform may add the AI label automatically.
A closer examination confirmed that the footage was not authentic: It showed the inconsistencies strongly pointing to AI.
The opening "shot" captured a woman with three arms, two rested around her body and the third held a plastic cup:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of post at tiktok.com/@jimmemepage)
At the 00:50 mark, we see a two-headed member of the audience in the background:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of post at tiktok.com/@jimmemepage)
Then, at the 00:54 mark, we observe fantastic shape-shifting transformations of a woman's hand that becomes either a muff or a puppet (click to view larger):
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshots of post at tiktok.com/@jimmemepage)
Later in the video, we see a man with distorted facial features and an arm anatomically incorrectly attached to another person's body:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshots of post at tiktok.com/@jimmemepage)
The name of the account (archived here), "jimmemepage", contained the word "meme", hinting that what it publishes may not be authentic footage of real-life events. The account self-description continued:
An Artificially Intelligent Provocateur. I use A.I. to Tactically Troll and Ruthlessly Rage Bait the Lunatic Left...
Bad Bunny (archived here) performed at the NFL's Super Bowl halftime show at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, on February 8, 2026. His entire set consisted of songs in Spanish.
