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Bow Wow’s Failed Attempt at Flexing Turns Into Hilarious #BowWowChallenge

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Bow Wow, also known as Shad Moss, is featured on “Growing Up Hip-Hop Atlanta.” (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)

Bow Wow‘s seemingly lavish travel accommodations were no match for the Twitter sleuths who exposed him for appearing to take a commercial flight instead and others swiftly took advantage by launching the #BowWowChallenge.

Bow, whose real name is Shad Moss, shared a Monday, May 8, Instagram post that implied he was preparing to fly in a private jet to New York City to promote the We TV reality show, “Growing Up Hip-Hop Atlanta.”

https://www.instagram.com/p/BT1W_-4lXWo/

But a Twitter user called out the actor and former rapper for being a poseur and posted an image of him on a commercial flight — in coach.

https://twitter.com/Al_Khee/status/861986390724284417

Another user traced the private jet image to a stock photo that appears in distorted form in the page header of a Fort Lauderdale VIP transportation service website.

https://twitter.com/mamacrimz/status/862007474504609792

Bow Wow attempted to clean up the failed post by saying someone posted an old image of him on an airplane to make him out to be a fraud. It is not clear when the image actually was taken.

“Half y’all broke [m—–f—–] still can’t afford a buddy pass on Spirit Airlines,” he wrote in a comment. “Stay out the big boy lane.”

But the entertainer couldn’t sweep the issue under the rug well enough to stop Twitter from mocking him with the #BowWowChallenge.

Several users shared images pretending to be extravagant but instead being well within the norm.

https://twitter.com/JoeyOhio/status/862302487088443392

https://twitter.com/ComicLuisPowell/status/862350299075411970

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