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Ludacris' Fake Abs refer to jokes made about poorly-CGI'd abdominal muscles on rapper Ludacris in his video for the song "Vitamin D."

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On April 10th, 2017, World Star Hip Hop premiered the music video for Ludacris' "Vitamin D" (shown below).

In the beginning of the video, Ludacris walks into a room of beautiful women with his shirt unbuttoned, revealing a CGI'd torso.

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Immediately, Twitter users began making jokes about Ludacris' torso in the video. Many compared it to that of different video game characters. @GinoTheGhost^[1] compared him to a Grand Theft Auto character in a tweet that gained over 2,900 retweets and 6,600 likes (below, left). Buzzfeed employee @elliesunakawa^[2] tweeted the most popular joke about Ludacris' abs, comparing them to bread rolls. Her tweet (below, right) gained over 12,000 retweets and 33,000 likes.

The jokes were compiled in a Twitter Moment^[3] that day. Many pointed out that Ludacris has a history of morphing his body with exaggerated CGI in videos, as he did in the videos for songs "Stand Up" and "Roll Out,"^[4] and the poorly-CGI'd abs were intentional. Ludacris responded to the jokes by pointing this out^[5] and responding to several tweeted jokes in good humor.

The Daily Dot,^[6] Fact Mag,^[7] Oxygen,^[8] and more covered the jokes. Ludacris later went on Late Night with Conan O'Brien to discuss the video and the jokes around it.

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