Jake Paul had reversed course on Bad Bunny with record speed, trading outrage for admiration almost overnight. Days earlier, Paul sparked backlash by labeling the Puerto Rican superstar a "fake American citizen" while urging fans to skip the Super Bowl LX halftime show. A sudden X bio update now signals a conspicuous change in tone.

Almost instantly, Jake Paul drew backlash for his Bad Bunny remarks, including public pushback from his brother, Logan Paul who was at the Stadium. The professional boxer took no time to alter his X profile bio to reflect admiration for Bad Bunny, as in, Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio.

"Benito #1 fan" now appears as the defining line on Jake Paul’s X bio, added on February 9, 2026.

This change was made after Paul claimed that he did not actually mean to say all those things about Bad Bunny and his Super Bowl performance, that he now named the best after Prince's by Rolling Stone.

The bio change in his X account is not the only step the influencer made in order to rein in the backlash.

The other steps Jake Paul took to control the damage

Jake Paul initially tried to narrow the damage by reframing his language rather than retracting it. He argued that the remark he made about Bad Bunny being a 'fake American citizen' had to do with the singer's values, not legal status, positioning the controversy as semantic confusion rather than ideological hostility.

As criticism widened to include Logan Paul and boxing partner Amanda Serrano, Jake Paul reacted with sudden disbelief, floating a claim that reframed the remarks as an accident, not an intention.

Only after those explanations failed to settle the backlash did Jake Paul revise his X bio. The love for Bad Bunny appeared as a final recalibration, signaling admiration where confrontation had previously driven the narrative.

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Written by

Iffat Siddiqui

Edited by

Hriddhi Maitra