Swedish pop star Zara Larsson is in a hilarious standoff with the internet. The battlefield? Her very own Wikipedia page.
In a recent viral TikTok video, the 28-year-old singer begged users to stop altering her Wikipedia headshot. She expressed intense frustration over a frequently used, unflattering photo of her holding a microphone. Instead, she wants her page to display a vibrant, microphone-free shot of her in a pink outfit with artistic face paint from her recent Midnight Sun European Tour.
“I Will Never Stop”
Larsson did not mince words in her plea to anonymous editors.
“Whoever the f*** is changing this f***ing Wikipedia picture to this picture, stop! Stop doing it,” Larsson told the camera. “I will never stop changing that picture to a nice one. I will never stop.”
The video shows the singer and her team scrolling through the Wikimedia Commons library, scoffing at images she dislikes. When she finally lands on her preferred pink portrait, she draws a hard line. “This is the one that we’re going to change to and keep changing to forever,” she insists.
The Inevitable Edit War
Unfortunately for Larsson, the first rule of the internet is that asking people not to do something practically guarantees they will do it.
Following her TikTok, Larsson’s Wikipedia page devolved into a chaotic edit war. Fans and trolls alike flooded the site to swap the image back and forth. Within a single day, the page saw over 70 revisions. Many users left notes in the edit history describing the changes as outright vandalism.+1
Consequently, Wikipedia administrators were forced to step in. They placed a “semi-protected” lock on her article to prevent further updates until the dust settles.
While editing your own Wikipedia page is highly discouraged due to conflict-of-interest guidelines, Larsson remains completely undeterred in her mission. As long as the internet keeps changing her photo, she has vowed to keep changing it right back.
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