NO LEBRON!!! STOP!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?!?

Dexerto – LeBron James has sent a Cease & Desist letter to an AI company that went viral for its ability to make “brainrot” videos of the NBA star.

Throughout most of 2025, TikTok videos showing an AI version of Lebron James took over the FYP of millions of users on the app.
One video posted in February shows James as a mermaid, swimming through the ocean to the tune of ‘Under the Sea’ from The Little Mermaid. The viral videos quickly gained the NBA star’s attention, prompting him to take legal action in order to keep them from using his likeness in AI videos.

According to 404Media, users on the Interlink AI Discord server were actively learning how to create AI videos of LeBron James that they could post on TikTok – with many of them going viral after doing so.

However, in late June, mods told members that they decided to remove all “realistic people models” from the AI platform.

“This change comes after we ran into legal issues involving a highly valued basketball player, and to avoid any further complications, we’ve chosen to take a proactive approach and fully remove all realistic likenesses from the site,” one mod said in a Discord post.

The publication confirmed with Jason Stacks, the founder of Interlink AI’s parent company, FlickUp, that the basketball player in question was in fact LeBron James. He also shared the news in a post on Instagram.

I'm going to slap a big ol' ALLEGEDLY on this entire blog. Seeing that LeBron James is actively sending cease & desists to some random internet company who's posting AI slop, I'm not trying to get Barstool caught up in Non-Pregnant LeBron James ALLEGED crusade against Pregnant LeBron James videos. Pregnant LeBron James videos that I will NOT be posting here, because I'm told those can get us sued. But trust me... they are not hard to find.

God damn it LeBron. I'm as big of a LeBron James defender as it gets. In my own head at least. I suppose I'm not out in the internet trenches replying to every @LeMickeyMouseJames troll bot on Twitter like a truly dedicated Bronsexual. But I like LeBron. I think he gets a bad rap from NBA fans at large. And he's had a better overall career than Michael Jordan. I'm sorry if that offends. But when I see headlines of him allegedly filing cease & desists against this guy...

Thinking that would somehow make the AI pregnancy videos stop... I understand why people are so quick to jump down LeBron's throat with the, "God damn it LeBron. You big fucking dummy. Why do you do the things you do?"

But LeBron James is not a dumbass. Sure, he didn't attend college. He's not a Mensa candidate. But as far as athletes go, he's not a complete idiot. You can't possibly be a complete idiot and be successful in the way LeBron is. He's also been actively online pretty much his whole career. He's not just pawning off all his socials to a professionally trained PR team either. I'm sure does with parts of it. But those tweets LeBron sends with #JustMyThoughtsComingFromASportsJunkieRegardlessMyOwnSportIPlay... those are coming straight from LeBron's remarkably gifted thumbs. 

Even when he goes ZeroDarkThirty-23, he can never fully keep himself away. The man is chronically logged on. He must have developed the slightest bit of internet literacy by now. And anybody who's spent 10 minutes online should know that the #1 surefire way to make sure people NEVER stop doing something you don't like, is to make it known that you do not like that thing. 

It's a tale as old as time. Every time an athlete or celebrity does this to themselves, every person on Twitter makes the same joke. I personally had to fight back the urge to write the same blog that's been written at Barstool a hundred times before. 

"Whatever You Do, DO NOT POST ANY AI Videos of Pregnant LeBron James!"

Followed by a litany of examples of what NOT to post. It's such a well-known concept that the joke has become played out. 

Filing a cease & desist might force the person profiting off the videos to stop. But revealing to the world what gets under your skin is worth so much more than anything a few popular Instagram accounts can produce. Internet trolls alone will yield more pregnant LeBron James content for the love of the game than money can buy.

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It almost has to be that LeBron thought that the news of him filing a cease & desist would never see the light of day. I'm not sure why anybody who's spent time on the internet would think that, but it has to be the case. Or maybe filing the cease & desist wasn't even LeBron's doing. Maybe somebody working for him took the initiative to try and scrub all instances of pregnant LeBron James from the internet. If it's the latter, he's gotta fire that employee. But I can't help but think (not accusing you of anything LeBron, just giving my educated guess) that this cease & desist is coming from LeBron himself.

In some ways I don't blame him. People are willing put up with a lot of shit on the internet. Lot's of insane, psychotic shit that's objectively WAY worse than some stupid, harmless AI pregnancy content. But I gotta imagine there's something about seeing a realistic looking video of yourself as a pregnant man, basically giving birth, that just makes your skin crawl. It's not even close to the meanest thing an Instagram account has done or said to LeBron, but there is something uniquely unsettling about it. I don't enjoy watching them. They're bizarre. They make me feel uncomfortable. Clearly the smart thing to do would have been to turn the other cheek and wait for people to move onto the next trend. But I can kinda get how constantly seeing AI pregnancy videos of yourself might illicit this type of a reaction, while other more inflammatory things would not.

But fuck, LeBron… Do you realize what you just did to yourself? What you just did to me? The world? Pregnant LeBron James is about to take over the internet. Under every LeBron James related tweet, we're about to be inundated with the weirdest, most unnerving pregnant dude videos that AI is capable of cooking up. And underneath each one will be replies that say "Why the buddy pregnant?", ten-to-twenty times over. 

I hope I'm wrong. I'm probably exaggerating things a bit for the sake of a blog. But it never fails to blow my mind when I see an athlete announce to the world that he's personally bothered by something fans are doing. And of all people… as online as LeBron is… for him to be one to come out and file a cease & desist over pregnancy videos (allegedly)… I just thought LeBron knew better. Now that I've typed out that sentence, I realize how stupid I sound. Egg on my face. 

Allegedly.