About

Marlon Fooled the Internet, also known as Marlon Fooled the Entire Internet, refers to a series of internet memes and jokes about streamer and influencer Marlon Lundgren Garcia after he went on a seven-day hiatus in early October 2025 and then posted a YouTube video about him "fooling the internet," referencing fans who were supposedly worried about him not returning. Many users on TikTok and elsewhere believed that Marlon's "I fooled the internet" video was cringe because of a perception that his publicity stunt was ill-conceived and went unnoticed. Marlon's choice of words in the video was also mocked, like when he called "stage 1" of his plan the "crashout stage." Marlon then deleted the YouTube video and addressed it in a follow-up, claiming that his editors had posted it by mistake. Memes making fun of Marlon for the video surfaced en masse on TikTok in the following weeks.

Origin

Sometime on or before October 6th, 2025, Twitch streamer and influencer Marlon shared a YouTube video after he had not posted for a week. The video started with him sitting down and saying, "Seven days, not a word, not a video, not a clip, not a post, nothing… I wanted to test the internet… Let me tell y'all how in seven days I fooled the internet completely."^[1]

The YouTube video was deleted by Marlon, but X^[1] user @GrokCob reposted the full-length video on the morning of October 6th, gaining over 4,300 likes in four days.

X^[2] user @NotUlxa also reposted the full video later on October 6th, gaining over 29,000 likes in four days.

Closeted G*Y streamer, Marlon, tried FOOLING the internet by not streaming for a week and DELETED this video when he saw that NO ONE noticed.. 😭💀

TW: 9 minutes of pure CRINGE.. 😬 pic.twitter.com/iEYZQdKmvx

— 𝓾𝓛𝔁𝓪 (@NotUlxa) October 6, 2025

Before Marlon's hiatus, clips of him hinting at quitting streaming went viral online. For instance, on September 26th, 2025, the TikTok^[4] account for @houseofhighlights shared a clip of Marlon that he later dubbed the "crashout" stage in his deleted video.

Spread

On October 6th, 2025, short clips from Marlon's deleted video were shared to TikTok, like one posted by TikToker^[3] @highlighthaven47, which received over 101,800 likes in four days.

On October 7th, TikToker^[5] H00pify shared a video on his alternate account, @hoopervalley8, in which he joked about Marlon's "I fooled the internet" video, saying that he personally didn't notice that he was missing. Over three days, the video received over 60,200 likes.

On October 8th, 2025, TikToker^[6] @tjr shared a POV video skit about a guy realizing that Marlon fooled the internet, gaining over 130,400 likes in two days.

On October 9th, TikToker^[7] @bassi.vsp shared a brainrot edit, adding CapCut filters and effects and a text overlay caption reading, "No one fell for TS." Over one day, the video received over 65,300 likes.

On October 10th, 2025, content creator Vexbolts shared a roughly six and a half minute-long YouTube^[8] video called, "How ME and Marlon fooled the internet…." gaining over 2,500 views in a few hours.

Marlon's Response

On October 7th, 2025, Marlon shared a YouTube^[9] video that was a recording of his Twitch stream in which he addressed the deleted "I fooled the internet" video. He claimed that his editors accidentally uploaded the video without his consent. Over three days, the video received over 68,900 views.

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