Hairy photos of Jeff Bezos and Jason Statham are fabricated

Images showing Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and actor Jason Statham with considerably more hair are circulating on X, Threads, and Bluesky. Both men are widely recognized for their bald or closely shaved appearance, and the source reports that this has not changed in recent days. In Bezos’s case, the altered image makes the hair look like a recent transplant.

The pictures are fabricated through photo editing, whether or not artificial intelligence was used in the process. The extent of their spread is unclear, but the posts have appeared often enough for several Verge staff members to encounter them in their social-media feeds. The report does not present the images as genuine changes to either man’s appearance. Instead, they are described as edited pictures designed to look jarring by adding hair to two people strongly associated with a bald look. Some users who reposted the images made claims about them, although the available source text does not specify those claims.