Internet recently cracked up over a scientific discovery that has provided a fictitious 3D depiction of Adam which looks a little too much like Vin Diesel. No one saw it coming that the model of the first man on earth would look very much like the movie star.
This hilarious but strange spectacle began when this movie theatre in New York City shared a message and an accompanying photograph suggesting that, based on new research conducted by Princeton University, this is what biblical Adam’s face must have looked like.
The resemblance to the Fast & Furious actor was rather uncanny. And, as would be expected from social media, the responses were priceless. Users on X (formerly Twitter) expressed their disbelief and amusement, with comments like: “Researchers must have been a huge fan of him or the Fast and Furious.”
Another user went on to say, “So Adam is Vin Diesel? I always knew time travel was possible.”
“So Adam and Vin Diesel are twins”, declared a user.
A user jokingly quipped, “Adam the movie, starring Vin Diesel.”
A comment read, “Vin Diesel about to star in the remake of Adam and Eve.”
A user added, “I didn't know Adam was Vin Diesel's little brother.”
To top it all off, someone wondered, “Vin Diesel? That begs the question, what car did Adam drive?”
The origin of the viral post of Adam who looked like Vin Diesel
On October 27, 2022, the Alamo Drafthouse NYC posted an image with the caption:
“Scientists at Princeton University have reconstructed this 3D model of how Adam, the first human being created by God, might have looked.”
This post quickly received a lot of attention and within no time, viral memes and jokes about Diesel resembling the first man, Adam, flooded the internet.
The reality behind the image
But, like in all such things that pop up on social media, it was too good to be true. Several days later it was explained that the picture was not the scientific restoration but the 3D render of Diesel created by Vitaly Alexeevich Tenishev. The Alamo Drafthouse later clarified their intent with a follow-up post stating:
“Just a reminder that we're a movie theatre, not an academic journal.”
This acknowledgment confirmed that the original post was a joke not a fact about the research that had been done.
This isn’t the first time the internet has taken it upon itself to muse on what the likes of biblical or historical personalities would look like. On October 26, 2022, an X user posted an image purporting to be a 3D model of Joseph, stating:
“Scientists at Stanford University have reconstructed this 3D model of how Joseph, the husband of Mary the Mother of Jesus Christ might have looked.”
The post generated almost 84K likes with users mentioning that the man looked like Andre the Giant – a wrestler widely famed for his big body and wonderful persona.
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Of course, this was not a scientific model either. The image was actually a 3D-generated model that was initially uploaded to Sketchfab in 2019. X marked the post as fake news at some point, but by then, this sensationalistic piece of content had already become the internet’s gold.
Other parodies that went viral included those that depicted Lady Gaga and Britney Spears as Cleopatra and the internet database of historical celebrity lookalikes continued to grow.
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