Live-action Flounder Hoax (Little Mermaid)

Live-action Flounder Hoaxrefers to discussions surrounding a fan-made computer-generated image of the fish character named Flounder from The Little Mermaid2023 live-action movie. Images of the fish began to circulate on Twittersometime in October 2022 after many users mistook thefan artfor an actual promo photo from the upcoming 2023Little Mermaidfilm. The CGI Flounder has been described as "grotesque," "Lovecraftian" and "bad" by various commentators who fell for the hoax.