Megan Thee Stallion became emotional during a performance in Tampa, Florida on Saturday after one of her online posts appeared to reference a pornographic deepfake video that allegedly used artificial intelligence to generate her face.
Concert-goer footage showed Megan appearing in tears during her performance of “Cobra,” a song about depression. Video footage From her “Hot Girl Summer Tour.”
The rapper dances through a few bars of the song without rapping: “I broke down and the whole world was watching me / But the worst part is who was watching me / Every night I cried myself to death / And no one close by tried to stop it.”
She then raps a few lines — “At night I sit in a dark room thinking / Maybe that's why I always have a drink” — before fanning her face.
While the three-time Grammy winner didn't explicitly mention the pornographic video during the show, she did appear to address it in a Twitter post the same day.
“It's so mean that you guys go out of your way to hurt me when you see I'm winning. You guys are going too far, hypocrites. Just know that today is the last day you'll hang out with me. I'm serious,” she posted to X on Saturday.
The list of deepfake videos attacking celebrities is growing, many of them sexually explicit: earlier this year singer-songwriter Taylor Swift and podcast host Bobby Althoff were targeted in fake videos.
