Comedian, actor and recording artist Jim Carrey announced Tuesday that he’s ready to join Twitter’s celebrity exodus and shared a new cartoon with his followers to mark the occasion.
“I’m leaving Twitter, but first, here’s a cartoon I made with my friend Jimmy Hayward,” Carrey said in a tweet Tuesday.
“It’s based on my painting of a crazy old lighthouse keeper standing naked in a storm, summoning the angels and lighting his lamp to guide us through a treacherous night. I love you all so much!”
As Carrey describes it, the cartoon shows a bearded lighthouse keeper singing a folk tune as a storm hits his lighthouse.
In recent years, Carrey has been a prolific Twitter user, sharing his artwork on the site, often in the form of political satire or social commentary. At the time of writing, Carrey has 18.9 million followers and only follows one person, his daughter Jane Erin Carrey.
The mask The actress joins a group of celebrities who have left the platform since Elon Musk officially took over on October 28, including Stephen Fry and Whoopi Goldberg, who announced their departures on The view described Musk’s tenure as chaos.
A few hours before Carrey’s farewell message, American musician Moby said he would also leave the site, citing Musk’s behavior and calling Twitter a “cesspool of racism”.
“This will be my last tweet. Last night @elonmusk posted an alt-right anti-Semitic meme, a fake @cnn story and a picture of guns on his bedside table. @Twitter has become a cesspool of racism, antisemitism, disinformation and stupid alt-right hate and it’s time to go,” he tweeted.
Controversially, Twitter said earlier today that it would no longer maintain a policy to combat misinformation about the Covid pandemic.
“Effective November 23, 2022, Twitter will no longer enforce the COVID-19 misinformation policy,” reads a comment on Twitter’s transparency pages.
It’s the latest change under new owner Elon Musk, who has promised to see more relaxed speaking on the platform.
Writer: Zac Ntim
Source: Deadline
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