{"id":307909,"date":"2026-02-20T11:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/307909\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T11:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:22:07","slug":"zara-larsson-begs-fans-to-stop-changing-her-wikipedia-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/307909\/","title":{"rendered":"Zara Larsson begs fans to stop changing her Wikipedia photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your support helps us to tell the story<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 iCTyfe\">From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it&#8217;s investigating the financials of Elon Musk&#8217;s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, &#8216;The A Word&#8217;, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 iCTyfe\">At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 iCTyfe\">The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls. We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it.<\/p>\n<p>Your support makes all the difference.Read more<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/zara-larsson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zara Larsson<\/a> has begged whoever is changing the image on her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/wikipedia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a> page to stop, as she isn\u2019t a fan of the photo. <\/p>\n<p>The <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/music\/news\/zara-larsson-interview-tate-mcrae-tour-tickets-b2856050.html\">Swedish pop star<\/a> posted a TikTok that demands: \u201cWhoever the f*** is changing this f***ing Wikipedia picture to this picture, stop! Stop doing it. Stop doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will never stop,\u201d she continued. \u201cI will never stop changing that picture to a nice one, I will never stop. You can stop, because I will never stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The clip then shows Larsson and a friend scrolling through Google images to find the image she wants to have on her Wikipedia page.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m being so for real, cut it out,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, since Larsson posted her TikTok, fans have apparently been trolling her by changing the image to other older pictures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZara fighting for her life on Wikipedia is sending me,\u201d one fan wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGirl said \u2018stop\u2019 and the internet heard \u2018challenge accepted,\u2019\u201d another fan joked, while one agreed: \u201cShe posted \u2018stop\u2019 and the internet took it as an invitation to escalate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Larsson, known for hit singles including \u201cLush Life\u201d and \u201cAin\u2019t My Fault\u201d, has experienced something of a career renaissance in the past year, with fans joking that she made it out of the \u201cKhia Asylum\u201d, a derogatory term used to describe artists whom fans deem to lack relevance or be in their \u201cflop era\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>She released her fifth studio album, Midnight Sun, to positive reviews on 26 September last year. The record marked her fourth No 1 in Sweden and also charted in the top 40 in the UK and other countries around the world.<\/p>\n<p>In January, \u201cLush Life\u201d once again topped the charts in Sweden and hit a new peak in the UK, after a viral clip of Larsson performing it on her Midnight Sun tour caused a resurgence in its popularity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-307909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}