HOLLYWOOD, CA—On Friday, sources close to the matter confirmed that Ed Sheeran’s cameo on HBO’s Game of Thrones is still totally wack.

“We couldn’t remember if it was totally weird and uncalled for, but then we checked again and it absolutely was,” one expert said. “He does this little singing bit with one of the main characters and it doesn’t fit at all. Good thing the series finale was hot garbage, it almost makes me forget the cameo.”

Sources were impressed by the immersive world-building and well-done character arcs in Game of Thrones, until UK pop sensation Ed Sheeran was featured in a brief scene they called “completely out of pocket.”

Using advanced machine learning techniques, scientists say that watching the episode for the first time may have felt something like this: