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By Sophie Lloyd
Pop Culture and Entertainment Reporter
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A wax figure of pop star Ariana Grande has gone viral for all the wrong reasons.
The model made its debut at Madame Tussauds in Sydney, Australia, with the museum sharing a clip of the waxwork to their social media channels on Wednesday.
However, some users were unimpressed, poking fun at the faux Grande online.
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"WHO IS THAT??" wrote Steph on X, the social network formerly known as Twitter.
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"Someone tell Madame Tussaud's it's time to find another hobby," said @itgirlposts.
"Turn it into a candle," commented Censored.
"Adriana Venti, is that you?" joked @AGSpotifyData, referencing the mysterious impersonator who leaked some of the singer's unreleased music in September.
"They should make one that doesn't steal baby daddies too!" said Patricia, referring to Grande's rumored affair with her Wicked co-star, Ethan Slater.
"Ariana should sue them," suggested Renbrandt, while LLC begged "Make it stop."
However, other fans praised the waxwork, with Eternal calling the sculpture "beautiful."
"That is amazing," said xprienz.
"Fantastic," agreed Dimido.
"Madame Tussauds always does an incredible job with their wax figures," wrote Horla Dimeji.
Newsweek has reached out to Ariana Grande and Madame Tussauds, Sydney, by email for comment.
This isn't the first time Madame Tussauds has attempted to capture the pop star in wax form. In 2019, Madame Tussaud's London museum was ridiculed over its wax figure of Grande, unveiled as part of a temporary summer display.
Fans claimed it looked "nothing like her" and compared the waxwork to YouTuber Emery Bingham.
Madame Tussauds isn't the only wax museum to be trolled over a celebrity lookalike. In October, the Musée Grévin in Paris unveiled its "very white" waxwork sculpture of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, leading to a flurry of jokes and memes online.
The wrestler-turned-movie-star—who is of Black Nova Scotian and Samoan descent—clearly found the skin-tone fail hilarious. He shared a clip by James Jefferson to Instagram, in which the 33-year-old comedian relentlessly mocks the model.
"They turned The Rock into a pebble," Jefferson cries in the video. "They done turned The Rock into a vinyl rock or something like that. It look like The Rock ain't never seen the sun a day in his life."
He also ripped into the artists at the Musée Grévin, telling them: "Do no type of art."
"I don't want you on [The] Sims building a character," he declared. "No arts and crafts. If you've got a little 2-year-old that gotta make a project, let them do that on their own."
Johnson reached out to the Musée Grévin, with the museum updating the waxwork's skin tone to match the actor.
"Dwayne Johnson is right, and we noticed it and will obviously remedy it as quickly as possible and send him new photos once completed," a spokesperson for the Musée Grévin told Newsweek at the time.
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