#digital folklore

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Jim Carrey Won a Lifetime Achievement Award and the Internet Decided He Was a Clone

Jim Carrey showed up to the César Awards in Paris, gave a speech entirely in French that he apparently spent months preparing for, thanked his family, traced his ancestry back three hundred years to Saint-Malo, and the internet looked at all of that and said yes but what if it was a clone. The whole thing got rocket fuel when a drag artist posted an Instagram photo of prosthetics next to a picture of Carrey at the ceremony with the caption "Alexis Stone as Jim Carrey in Paris," which was almost certainly performance art but landed on a conspiracy-primed audience the same way a lit match lands on a gas leak. A source later told the Daily Mail that Carrey finds the whole thing "sad" — not because people mocked his appearance, but because, and this is a direct quote, "people are stupid." He is sixty-four years old, he hasn't been in public since November, and apparently that is now the exact amount of time it takes for the internet to decide you've been replaced by a satanist clone, which is a sentence I genuinely did not expect to type today.

#conspiracy#celebrity-clones

Dictionary.com's 2025 Word of the Year Is Not a Word

Dictionary.com sat down this year, looked at the entire English language, and said you know what, not today, and handed the crown to 67, which is not a word, is pronounced "six seven" and not "sixty-seven," and means absolutely nothing that anyone has been able to pin down with any confidence. It started with a rap song, got picked up by TikTok, attached itself to a very tall basketball player, and then somehow ended up in the mouth of every third-grader in the country, which is how these things go now. By the time Merriam-Webster weighed in with their own pick — "slop," defined as the ocean of low-quality garbage that AI dumps on the internet every twelve seconds — the two choices sitting next to each other started to feel less like a fun annual tradition and more like a note left on the refrigerator by the English language on its way out the door.

#language#internet-culture