Published 18:00 IST, January 5th 2021

The Weeknd's profile picture on Instagram takes social media by surprise & sparks a trend

Canadian songster The Weeknd's profile pic update on Instagram took the internet by surprise and gave birth to the 'I drew The Weeknd' trend on social media.

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Canian songster Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, popularly kwn as Weeknd, recently took social media by surprise after he me a fan art his prolific picture on Instagram. Back in 2017, a Twitter user named 'Ballpoint Papi' h shared a poorly-drawn sketch of Weeknd, which recently became hot topic of discussion among fans of three-time Grammy Award-winning singer on Twitter. Soon, 'I drew Weeknd' trend sparked on Twitter as many shared ir fan arts of 30-year-old artist.

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Weeknd's Twitter drawing as his IG profile picture leaves fans shocked

Weeknd's profile pic on Instagram recently me helines as netizens couldn't believe ir eyes. A bly-drawn sketch of Weeknd did rounds on social media lately, which was originally shared on Twitter back in 2017. While a lot of celebrities have ir ways of appreciating fan art, Canian singer took it to ar level as he decided to make a fan art his profile picture on photo-sharing app. 

While illustration was shared on Twitter by Ballpoint Papi @Tw1tterPicasso a couple of years ago, it only went viral recently after ar user shared it on  micro-blogging platform. However, as soon as netizens ticed Weeknd's profile pic update, y collectively lost ir calm and didn't hold back from expressing same on social media. One tweet regarding same has garnered over one million likes and more than 126k retweets. Take a look:

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Check out Weeknd's Instagram profile photo below:

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Apart from becoming talk of social media, Weeknd's profile pic update on Instagram also started 'I Drew Weeknd' trend on Twitter. Lately, hundreds and thousands of fans of  Heartless crooner have been sharing ir hand-me fan arts on social media. While many shared some jaw-dropping sketches and paintings on singer, ors joined bandwagon of poorly-drawn illustrations and shared m on ir respective handles. A lot of fans tried ir level best to up ir creativity game with new viral trend. Check out some fan arts shared by Twitterati below:

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18:00 IST, January 5th 2021