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Rami Malik's "I'm a Fan" refers to a Mandarin Oriental Hotel commercial featuring actor Rami Malek looking straight into the camera and stating various things he is a fan of ending with Mandarin Oriental.

Origin

On January 15th, 2019, Mandarin Oriental uploaded the commercial featuring Rami Malek. The video has gained over 131,000 views and 870 likes (shown below).

According to Mashable^[1], Twitter user @tireddeaky (account since deleted) uploaded the first cut version of the video. Many Twitter users retweeted this video that cuts out the name Mandarin Oriental to comment on how strange the video is for its pacing, awkwardness.

Spread

On March 1st, 2019, YouTuber Hobi is my city uploaded a version with thriller/suspense music in the background (shown below). The video gained 802 views in three days.

The same day, Twitter users began uploading edited versions of the vides. @VZarchie uploaded a parody with the commercial edited into a James Bond scene to play a villain (shown below).

On March 2nd, Twitter user @pkpoppa uploaded a dubbed version of "Silence of the Lambs" with Malek's lines from the commercial added (shown below).

That same day, YouTuber Happy Lou Videos uploaded another edited version where the camera zooms closers to Malek's mouth every so often (shown below). The video accumulated 545 views in two days.

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