The goddamn check is blue! Jim Carrey is leaving Twitter–but before he logs off for good, he has left a strange animated video for his 18.9 million followers.
The 76-second cartoon takes place near a lighthouse during a thunderstorm, with a naked man (voiced by Jim Carrey) singing. It is based on one of Carrey’s own paintings, which he frequently shared on social media. You can watch it below:
Carrey’s collaborator, Jimmy Hayward, posted the video on Instagram as well with the following background information: “My old friend Jim Carrey called me and asked me if I wanted to bring one of his amazing paintings to life. I did, so I enlisted the help of the immensely talented @cageclaypool and @markwells.music Mark and I played the music to Jim singing his sea shanty lyrics and Cage did his amazing 2 1/2 D magic to my cut and it all [culminated] in Jim’s 9 foot amazing painting. It was a weird beautiful puzzle.”
Twitter was Jim Carrey’s last form of social media. Last month, Carrey posted a critical artwork of Elon Musk, accompanied by: “Capt Smirk fired 1/2 his crew. He’s banning comics: shadow banning unverified users, boldly going where no unbridled ego has gone before. Says, “$8/mo is the price of a latte.” True. It’s also cheaper than a T-shirt saying “Rob me. I’m a gullible ass!””
Jim Carrey joins a lengthy list of celebrities who have decided to leave Twitter after Elon Musk’s takeover, including Whoopi Goldberg, Gigi Hadid and Alex Winter, who said it is now a private company with less oversight has immediately made the platform more prone to hate speech, targeted attacks, and the spread of disinformation.
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