ESPN Reveals the Identity of Katy Perry's Left Shark

With a bit of extra PR spin!

If you’re like us and you spend every waking moment online, you’ve about had it with the “left shark” memes. (There are way too many joke accounts out there, and The New Yorker even weighed in.)

Today, however, we got what we are fairly certain will be the last meme-jacking project, distributed by ESPN’s internal PR team to promote SportsCenter with creative work by ad agency Wieden+Kennedy:

That was pretty funny.

The best part, though, is the last line of the release we got this morning:

“Shark costumes designed by Katy Perry, Baz Halpin and Marina Toybina.”

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