--- title: Fish With a Human-Like Face Becomes TikTok's New Obsession description: A fish with a remarkable resemblance to a human's face became TikTok's latest obsession after a clip of it began circulating. canonical: https://time.com/5725118/fish-with-human-like-face-tik-tok-video/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-11-12T16:42:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:01:02.831Z og:title: Fish With a Human-Like Face Becomes Tik Tok's New Obsession og:description: Looks as bizarre as it sounds og:url: https://time.com/5725118/fish-with-human-like-face-tik-tok-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltabfc76894f4b80ac/698a05b316d8846f5ec37477/fish-with-human-face-tik-tok-video.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Close-Up Of Fish Swimming In Sea og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Fish With a Human-Like Face Becomes Tik Tok's New Obsession twitter:description: Looks as bizarre as it sounds twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltabfc76894f4b80ac/698a05b316d8846f5ec37477/fish-with-human-face-tik-tok-video.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Fish With a Pretty Convincing Human-Like Face Is Out There So Don't Think People Aren't Catching On  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Nov 12, 2019 4:42 PM UTC  Prachuap Khiri Khan, Thailand - April, 18, 2017 : Beautiful sea fish in the aquarium at Waghor Aquarium Thongchai Sub district, Bangsapan District, Prachuap Khiri Khan, Thailand Prachuap Khiri Khan, Thailand - April, 18, 2017 : Beautiful sea fish in the aquarium at Waghor Aquarium Thongchai Sub district, Bangsapan District, Prachuap Khiri Khan, ThailandChayapon Bootboonneam / EyeEm—Getty Images/EyeEm  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Nov 12, 2019 4:42 PM UTC While some humans are notorious for making a [“fish face”](https://www.cosmopolitan.com/style-beauty/beauty/news/a47461/new-selfie-face/) while mugging for a photo, there’s now a fish that’s gone viral for its remarkable resemblance to a human. In a [TikTok](https://time.com/5721116/teen-tik-tok-history-lessons-videos/) video on Twitter that’s been making the rounds online, a fish can be seen swimming in a stream before lifting its head out of the water to reveal a visage that bears an uncanny similarity to a land-dwelling, two-legged human being in its eyes, nose and mouth. The succinct caption that accompanies the tweet simply (and pithily) reads: “This face has human face,” alongside a slew of anxious, grimacing face emoji. According to [_News 18_](https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/this-fish-with-a-human-face-is-just-what-nightmares-are-made-of-2381723.html), the video was captured by a visitor to the Miao village in Kunming, China; it was later shared on Weibo and then TikTok. The TikTok video has now garnered 23.6k views. See the fish with a freakishly human-like face in the TikTok video below. > [](https://twitter.com/fun4laugh2/status/1193366123862867968) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5725118/fish-with-human-like-face-tik-tok-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5725118/fish-with-human-like-face-tik-tok-video/"},"headline":"Fish With a Pretty Convincing Human-Like Face Is Out There So Don't Think People Aren't Catching On","datePublished":"2019-11-12T16:42:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:01:02.831Z","description":"Looks as bizarre as it sounds","url":"https://time.com/5725118/fish-with-human-like-face-tik-tok-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltabfc76894f4b80ac/698a05b316d8846f5ec37477/fish-with-human-face-tik-tok-video.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltabfc76894f4b80ac/698a05b316d8846f5ec37477/fish-with-human-face-tik-tok-video.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Close-Up Of Fish Swimming In Sea","caption":"Close-Up Of Fish Swimming In Sea","creditText":"Chayapon Bootboonneam / EyeEm—Getty Images/EyeEm","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5725118/fish-with-human-like-face-tik-tok-video/","name":"Fish With a Pretty Convincing Human-Like Face Is Out There So Don't Think People Aren't Catching On"}}]}] ```