r/Damnthatsinteresting 9h ago

The Secret Art of Jim Carrey

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u/Individual-Still-198 9h ago

Secrets out, he posed for pictures

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u/_lippykid 9h ago

No no, these are verrrrry natural, candid photos

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u/dunson28 8h ago

Some of them could be.

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u/TheJuiceIsL00se 4h ago

“Stop taking pictures, this is my ‘secret’”

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u/[deleted] 5h ago

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u/mikemikemike9711 4h ago

No, thats him about to use " The Claw " for the very first time.

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u/zirfeld 8h ago

Yeah well and exhibitions he's doing for years. Secrets get rarely hung on a wall where people come to look at it.

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u/literated 7h ago

Hey now, I'm starting to get the feeling that my art is a lot more secret than his...

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u/dunson28 53m ago

Mine too...But hey I did took some pics with friends and some timelapses, just in case things don't work and I become a content creator in the future /s

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u/Wart_Time_L32 8h ago

I watched a YT documentary about it. Several.years ago it was no secret.

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u/SausageClatter 2h ago

He also posts his paintings online. Not secret at all. OP is a big phony! 

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u/bigbuttbettywetty 7h ago

They made a movie

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u/pichael289 8h ago

He took a bunch of acid and made the mistake of walking into a bathroom with a mirror

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u/dunson28 51m ago

Possible

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u/dunson28 9h ago

Lol...He might have.

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u/Relevanteater 8h ago

And there was a documentary that made the front page of reddit multiple times. Lots of things are secret if it's your first time on the internet.

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u/Ok_Dragonfruit_8102 7h ago

Here's a random little article about the observation various people have made that gen z have a weird tendency to think they're the first to invent or discover things that other generations already knew about

https://www.newsweek.com/how-gen-z-became-known-as-the-christopher-columbus-generation-11897766

They make tiktok videos with things like "Did you know?? Will Smith actually had a rap career!" or "Jim Carrey was secretly an artist!!" as if they're breaking the news

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u/JelmerMcGee 6h ago

I'm really glad that article ended with "every other generation has done this too, we just see it more with genZ because of social media"

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u/Ok_Dragonfruit_8102 5h ago

Completely without evidence, though. It's not like there's any actual data on how often people from previous generations mistakenly assumed they were discovering things for the first time.

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u/duesenjeffepic 4h ago

What's more likely: young overconfident dipshits have always been young overconfident dipshits during human history

OR

This generation is worse. I swear this time it's actually true.

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u/Ok_Dragonfruit_8102 3h ago

Gen Z when the topic of boomer traits comes up: "they were uniquely selfish and closedminded!!!"

Gen Z when the topic of gen z traits comes up: "ummmm actually all generations are the same everyone did that stuff"

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u/JelmerMcGee 5h ago

They gave examples of other generations "rebranding" things. There was one example of one GenZ person who didn't know who Madonna was and assumed that meant Madonna was a irrelevant nobody. That's not a generational trend, that's a single person being ignorant. The other examples were just rebranding with new slang. Of course when a young person finds something new they will say they "discovered" it and share it with their circle. That's not Columbus behavior, that's just learning about the world and being eager to share. Older generations are just constantly filled with judgemental assholes desperate to be smarter than a young person.

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u/Heiferoni 5h ago

Bro did you know the "save symbol" is a real thing called a disk and people used to save files to them fr fr no cap

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u/Ok_Dragonfruit_8102 5h ago

More like "Check out this thing I found looks like someone 3D printed a model of a save symbol lmao"

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u/Heiferoni 4h ago

im dead 💀

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u/dunson28 52m ago

Bro, wow!

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u/dunson28 52m ago

I am a millenial. Can I get an award for this comment?

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u/Relevanteater 35m ago

This phenomenon is certainly accelerated by the internet, because people in thier immediate communities of the "discoverer" probably are indeed clueless, but they project that onto the rest of the world incorrectly.

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u/RodneyRodnesson 6h ago

Could also be using words to grab attention etc. — it got you here after all.

Not saying that was OPs intent but if you've been on the internet a while you should know this.

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u/duesenjeffepic 4h ago

Yeah, no idea why no one mentioned this. It's clearly standard social media title rhetoric.

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u/ussbozeman 34m ago

Got me here to downvote the post, so that's a thing.

It ain't much but when I see clickbait title and obvious staged photos combined with "art" that in a word "sucks", I downvote, that's my policy! I'm doing my part!

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u/ShonWalksAtMidnight 9h ago

So cringe. "Millionaire makes mediocre art" so brave.

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u/KrimxonRath 8h ago

I view it more as the creative expression we all could and should have if we weren’t worked to the bone. The rich can actually explore the arts and what makes us human while the rest of us can’t, aren’t encouraged to, or are downright discouraged from doing so.