The Weeknd's Hair Gets the Twitter Treatment During 2016 Oscars Performance

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During Sunday evening's 88th Academy Awards, Canadian R&B singer the Weeknd performed his Oscar-nominated track "Earned It" from Fifty Shades of Grey. With him onstage were dancers, mannequin legs and his distinctive hairstyle.

"I want to be remembered as iconic and different," the Weeknd has said about his hair, according to Rolling Stone. And fans are already remembering his Oscars performance hairdo, tweeting quickly — and humorously — all the things the Weeknd's usually eccentric hairstyle looked like, such as the mammoth Manny from Ice Age or someone from the cartoon Hey Arnold!

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From Oscar jokes to tubs of Nutella, here are some Twitter reactions from his performance: