Did a variety of celebrities, from Fifty Cent to the White House press secretary, respond with public comments after Bad Bunny joked on Saturday Night Live that Americans had four months to learn Spanish before his Super Bowl halftime appearance? No, that’s not true: This is a fake controversy drummed up by a network of clickbait publishers overseas. A flood of posts on Facebook contain fake quotes attributed to celebrities who had not weighed in on the Puerto Rican rapper’s selection to appear at the 2026 championship game.
One example of this formula appears in a post (archived here) published on Oct. 6, 2025 by the Facebook page Venetian. The post was captioned:
BREAKING NEWS
Bad Bunny is catching smoke from all sides after saying on SNL:
“You have four months to learn Spanish if you wanna understand my lyrics at the Super Bowl.”While fans were still arguing, 50 Cent slid into the chat like it was 2003 again — and he did not hold back.
50 tweeted seriously at first, trying to sound diplomatic (but you know how that goes):“Look, I respect what he’s doing, but telling Americans to ‘learn Spanish’ for the Super Bowl? Bro, this ain’t Duolingo halftime.”
Then he added the knockout punch:
“Last time I checked, music supposed to bring people together, not make us download Rosetta Stone.”
This is the image published with the post:
(Image Source: Lead Stories screenshot from facebook.com/share/p/1b5VPss5Yw.)
A Google search (archived here) for “50 Cent” AND “Bro, this ain’t Duolingo halftime” returned no examples of factual reporting, just duplicates of the traffic-seeking social media posts.
A search on Facebook for “Bad Bunny SNL Duolingo” and “Bad Bunny SNL Clapback” turned up many different posts (pictured below) featuring a variety of famous names and fake quotes. Included are Sharon Osbourne, John Oliver, Pink, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Andy Reid, and Joe Gorga.
(Image Source: Lead Stories composite image with screenshots from facebook.com/search.)
One post (archived here) claimed that Karoline Leavitt said the same exact words attributed to 50 Cent:
Look, I respect what he’s doing, but telling Americans to ‘learn Spanish’ for the Super Bowl? This ain’t Duolingo halftime.
Then she dropped the mic:
Last time I checked, music’s supposed to bring people together, not make us download Rosetta Stone.
