In the ongoing saga of celebrities freaking out over Elon Musk buying Twitter, Jim Carrey has announced that he’s leaving the platform.
(In honor of Jim Carrey’s exit there will be movie quote parodies from his most quotable movie ever: Liar Liar. You’ve been warned. LOL.)
Carrey’s alleged departure tweet is … well … weird. For those of us who grew up laughing with Jim Carrey, weirdness has been par for the course in recent years. His tweet featured a cartoon of a naked lighthouse keeper ‘summoning the angels and shining his lamp to guide us through a treacherous night’.
https://twitter.com/JimCarrey/status/1597702120740093952?s=20&t=HeBfi9txuUgZ2B9EJPV-rw
Carrey’s Twitter politics as of late might rightly be described as ‘short, shriveled, and always to the left‘.
Many on the Left have created an alternate reality where they believe themselves to be living through a horrific period in human history.
The country was born out of a revolution against the most powerful empire on earth. We endured the evil of slavery, the Civil War, and Jim Crow. The nation weathered two world wars, Korea, Vietnam, wars in the Middle East, various other conflicts, the Cold War, and 9/11. We survived the Great Depression and two deadly pandemics.
Americans have it so good these days we have to manufacture terrors we can bravely survive. Yes, the bombing of Pearl Harbor was bad, but have you ever had a President you hated for 4 years or a rich guy buy your favorite social media platform?
https://twitter.com/JimCarrey/status/1590100983593709568?s=20&t=LFF6RzsrFDk5aIwb1hSIZw
The former funny man, turned creepy artist, made his disdain for Elon Musk known earlier this month. Presumably, he was mad over Kathy Griffin being banned for violating Twitter’s impersonation rules (she’s back now) and Musk making the coveted verification check available to commoners.
Are you really a ‘gullible ass’ if you decide to pay for Twitter Blue, as Jim Carrey suggests?
No. That’s just something ugly people say.
As you might imagine, many lamented the actor’s Twexit. Others were less than upset.
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— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) November 30, 2022
Meh. We’ve had better.
Jim Carrey was on Twitter? pic.twitter.com/6asDfFg2W1
— Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) November 29, 2022
Oh, he’s been here. Mostly tweeting his creepy paintings to cope with his anger at Republicans.
Who did this to the Jim Carrey we all used to know and love?
‘A mad man, your honor, a desperate fool at the end of his pitiful rope.’
‘What did he look like?’
‘About 6’2″, 180 pounds, big teeth, kinda gangly.’
— MagaGem 💎 (@MAGAGEM1) November 30, 2022
Some were perfectly fine with Carrey crawling right back into the rhino’s butt he came out of …
Please Jim Carrey please don’t leave we love u where your biggest fan stay for us we need your wisdom RT pic.twitter.com/u6LtjCD8ZH
— Lucky Boss Lady (@LawOFUniverse11) November 30, 2022
… others begged him to keep tweeting. ‘Write it! Write it or I’ll break it off!’
Why are you leaving Twitter? Are you not for free speech? Do you support censorship of ideas you disagree with, namely conservatism? Are you too scared to engage with those you don't agree with and debate? Don't you think by leaving Twitter that shows cowardice?
— Richard Kalinsky (@Richard_Kalinsk) November 29, 2022
Where would Tina Turner be right now if she’d rolled over and said, ‘Hit me again, Ike, and put some stank on it!’? Rollin’ on the river, that’s where she’d be. But she’s beyond Thunderdome, because she decided to send a message … er … a tweet.
Not an airport you don’t have to announce your departure
— Grant Nelson (@granttnelson08) November 29, 2022
Ouch. Smokin’!
Are you still going to be obsessively putting your hatred into paintings?
— MAZE (@mazemoore) November 30, 2022
We will miss the manic masterpieces.
‘It is only out of sheer morbid curiosity that I am allowing this freak show to continue.’
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 30, 2022
Ding ding ding! What do we have for her, Johnny?
“I want to announce I’m lea….”
OK BYE. https://t.co/aksejOVcCO pic.twitter.com/mphhHFgtjL— Cali (@Dennis_in_Cali) November 30, 2022
Maximus, he’s outta here.
Nobody cares, which is why you’ll be back before very long. https://t.co/Zfllska3ut
— Doug Powers (@ThePowersThatBe) November 30, 2022
We’ll see you later … Yeah, not going to finish that quote. LOL.
Jim Carrey taught us all about transgender people in the 90s. pic.twitter.com/D7Vmy6lnhA
— Josh Lillie (@Josh_Lillie_1A4) November 30, 2022
You heard that right: Jim Carrey is leaving Twitter because you can no longer be banned for saying ‘Einhorn is a man’.
"I'm leaving Twitter because all I do now is complain about Democracy, but I draw the line when Elon Musk thinks everybody deserves a voice. I'm also quite upset that regular people can purchase a blue check, which lowers my value as an important celebrity." — Jim Carrey https://t.co/VwGQksHfl5
— Carl E. Miller (@Carl_E_Miller) November 29, 2022
Uh-oh. You’ve found the Claw’s only weakness. $8 blue checks!
Jim Carrey just announced he’s leaving Twitter. It’s only fair since he left comedy 20 years ago.
— Jimmy Failla (@jimmyfailla) November 30, 2022
AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE!
Jim Carrey just said he's leaving twitter. If it was 1996, maybe I'd care. 😂
— Pamela Hensley 🇺🇸🎥 (@PamelaHensley22) November 30, 2022
Here she comes to wreck his daaaay!
Jim Carrey is quitting Twitter and going back where he belongs: the '90s
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) November 30, 2022
We’re tempted to tell him what we think of his recent Twitter persona: He’s a pedantic, pontificating, pretentious *******, a belligerent old fart, a worthless steaming pile of cow dung … figuratively speaking.
But, no. We’d prefer the old Jim Carrey find his way back eventually. Social media was probably never the place for him.
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