Mark Zuckerberg has revealed that he intentionally wore too much sunscreen in his mocked surfing photos in Hawaii to “fool the paparazzi” into not being recognized.
The Facebook CEO was photographed while on vacation in July of last year wearing a white mask-like appearance that led to him being nicknamed ‘the mime surfer’ and spawned dozens of memes and comparisons to characters like The Joker and Mrs Doubtfire. .
Today, the 36-year-old, who is currently fighting multiple federal antitrust lawsuits attempting to break the company’s market monopoly, revealed the story behind the photos in a live Instagram discussion with Adam Mosseri, the app’s CEO. owned by Facebook.
Zuckerberg claimed it was an attempt to hide from the press that accidentally “backfired” him.
“I really should have given it more thought,” he said.
“I realized there was a paparazzi following us, and then I thought, ‘Oh, I don’t want him to recognize me so he knows what I’m going to do. I’m just going to put a ton of sunscreen on my face. ‘ And I backfired. “
She added: “The problem between how funny you think you are and the worst photo a paparazzi can take is pretty funny. Nobody needs to wear that much sunscreen. If someone wants to post a sunscreen meme, that’s great. I’m glad that The internet laughs. I’m glad people can laugh at it. I laugh at it and I think it’s pretty funny. “
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The billionaire previously referenced the photo in Q&A, a month after the photo was taken in August 2020.
AccordingThe Verge He said: “I am not a person who is under the illusion that I look particularly good at any moment with what I am doing.
“But when you’re tanning off the coast of Hawaii, and it’s beautiful and it feels amazing, and then you come back online and you see that’s the picture, that’s what you look like, it’s like, that’s okay. That’s maybe a little more sunscreen than I thought I was using. “
She also said she was “not going to apologize for wearing too much sunscreen.”
“I think sunscreen is good, and I’m behind that,” he reaffirmed.
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