Bayley Joins Fans Roasting Her WWE 2K24 In-Game Character Model

WWE 2K24's release is a little more than a month away and we now know a lot of details about this year's installment in the series. Cody Rhodes is the cover star, Rhea Ripley and Bianca Belair are on the deluxe edition, and its showcase mode will celebrate 40 years of WrestleMania. Taking the chance to show a little more of what's to come, 2K posted images of some character models during the Royal Rumble. However, Bayley's look generated such a negative reaction that the post was pulled and replaced with real footage of Bayley right after she won the Rumble.

Somebody Help Bayley

Nothing posted on social media is ever truly gone forever though, so the in-game image of Bayley posted by 2K after her Rumble win has been shared numerous times since. It's hard to pinpoint exactly what it is about the model, which you can check out below, that's not quite right, but something's up. It seems to be the hairline that makes the 2K24 version of Bayley look off, the hair on the right jutting off into an arc for no reason whatsoever.

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The image has been reshared so much that Bayley herself has managed to see it, even though 2K deleted the original image before she'd have made it back to the locker room and checked her phone. SmackDown Hotel was one of the first to share the image, not even poking fun at it, and that's where Bayley saw it for the first time, replying "HELP ME" to the post, hopefully laughing along with the rest of us and not taking it personally.

WWE 2K's Hair

2K's plan for the night was to share the in-game models of the Rumble winners as well as Roman Reigns who retained the Undisputed Title. Reigns and Cody Rhodes' models look great and the original posts have been left up. As for why Bayley's doesn't look right, that remains a mystery. Especially odd since 2K now uses incredibly high-tech face-scanning technology on all Superstars included in its games, so a model not looking like the person they represent really shouldn't be an issue.

My takeaway from all this unearths a problem I've had with WWE games for years, that being for some reason, 2K can't get hair right. Even the jump from last-gen to current-gen hasn't fixed it, and I can't figure out why that is. Granted, I'm not a game developer so I have no idea what goes into creating hair in-game and making it look realistic. However, it can clearly be done, as demonstrated by countless other games, and it feels like something that should be a priority, especially if it is the reason why Bayley's in-game model looks so peculiar.

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