Dave Rahardja<p>One of the funniest long-running performance-art in-jokes on Facebook is the Celina 52 Truck Stop (“America’s Deadliest Truck Stop”), a page that posts fever dream photos of bizarre shenanigans supposedly happening inside a truck stop in Tennessee, featuring a recurring cast of characters, and celebrity appearances.</p><p>Looks like redditors finally found the actual location of the truck stop, and it’s one Eco Travel Plaza in Crossville, TN. Unilad appears to have found “Howard” (no last name) who is the author of the page. As I suspected, most of the photographs are real, and the people are real,(their appearance is far too consistent), and there is heavy use of photoshop, and only a little AI. There really is an 8-foot tall inflatable Piss Jugman mascot costume, and their antics are often done on location.</p><p>This is some serious commitment to the bit by a small group of actors over the past 4+ years. I salute you, Celina 52 Truck Stop.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humor</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/parody" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>parody</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/performanceArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>performanceArt</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.uniladtech.com/news/ai/celina-52-truck-stop-reveals-truth-ai-accusations-568309-20250818" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">uniladtech.com/news/ai/celina-</span><span class="invisible">52-truck-stop-reveals-truth-ai-accusations-568309-20250818</span></a></p>