The internet has always had its seasons. One month it is action figures; the next it is cinematic headshots; and now, in early 2026, it is caricatures. Scroll through LinkedIn, Instagram, or WhatsApp and you will see them everywhere: stylised portraits of hairdressers surrounded by blow-dryers, chefs framed by copper pans, brokers standing confidently before cartoon skylines of glass and steel.
The prompt is deceptively simple: create a caricature of me and my job based on everything you know about me.
For real estate professionals in particular, the trend has landed with force. Agents are flooding the internet with polished, playful, AI-generated versions of themselves — sharper jawlines, brighter suits, exaggerated smiles, miniature cranes and condominiums rising in the background. It feels modern. It feels creative. It feels, on the surface, harmless.
But in a world where deepfake fraud is now described by researchers as operating at industrial scale, the cheerful cartoon deserves a m…
