Just my face: Mark Zuckerberg breaks silence over viral video of him struggling to drink Guinness

A video of Mark Zuckerberg drinking beer during a podcast is going viral, with netizens trolling him over his expressions and calling his appearance “performative”. Some are questioning why he looks so awkward while taking a sip. However, the Meta CEO has now brushed off the memes, saying that’s just his face.The clip comes from Zuckerberg’s appearance on the Cheeky Pint podcast, where he sat down with Meta’s chief AI officer Alexandr Wang and Stripe co-founder John Collison. In the video doing the rounds on X, Zuckerberg can be seen holding a pint of Guinness and taking a sip while Wang speaks. His expressions have since become the focus of memes and jokes, with some users suggesting he looked uncomfortable while drinking.One X user, posting under the handle @Wahndo_, joked that Guinness was “performative at best” and pointed out that Zuckerberg had two beers during the interview. Responding to the post, Zuckerberg wrote, “that's just my face”.This is one of the rare times Zuckerberg has publicly commented on a viral video or meme about himself. Seems like he is also warming up to social media banter, much like Alexandr Wang, who has been fairly active on the platform over the past few weeks. While the beer clip has grabbed attention online, the podcast itself focused on Meta’s AI ambitions and the risks involved in building its next generation of models.During the conversation, Zuckerberg revealed that he was prepared to commit as much as $100 billion to $200 billion to AI even before Meta knew whether its models would work. Recalling a conversation with Wang towards the end of 2025, Zuckerberg said he had asked him, “Alex, are you sure this is going to work?” Wang admitted that the outcome was far from certain at the time. He said he had a “vibe report” on the progress of the research and some plots to show, but there was no guarantee that the models would succeed.Meta’s chief financial officer, Susan Li, was also acutely aware of the financial stakes. Wang recalled that she repeatedly warned him that failure would be “very, very bad in financial terms” and stressed that the model had to work.Zuckerberg, however, argued that the investment was not quite as risky as it might appear. He said Meta wanted to build a personal AI agent for consumers, going beyond the text-based assistants and coding agents offered by competitors. “And no one had built the kind of personal consumer version of that,” he said, adding that he believed this was what Meta should build.- Ends