Considering theslew of peopleTwitter proprietor Elon Musk hasbannedfrom his newly acquired social electronic web , it did n’t seem surprising when ‘ Weird ’ Al Yankovic expressed outrage that Harry Potter sensation and Weird Al imitator Daniel Radcliffe was among those kicked off on Monday . Yet — though it may be heavy to believe — it was n’t Musk ’s break this time , because Radcliffe is n’t on any social medium channel .
On Monday good afternoon , Yankovic twitch that Radcliffe , who recently play the comedic creative person in theWeird : The Al Yankovic Storybiopic , had been suspended from Twitter . Yankovic implied that Radcliffe had been using his Twitter account to parody him , which would have made sense since the biopic Radcliffe starred in about Yankovic was released this calendar month .
“ Oh no , they suspended @danielradcliffe ’s Twitter history ! Was n’t it obvious he was doing a spoof ? ? ? ” Yankovicwrote .
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Under Musk ’s recentstrict edictbanning caricature of others — mainly because Kathy Griffin , Valerie Bertinelli , and more were take a shit fun of the Tesla CEO — it would make signified that Radcliffe would have been penalize for parodying Yankovic , even if it was to advance the picture . Not the case , though . Some news sales outlet , including theToronto StarandKatie Couric Media , reported on Yankovic ’s claim as true . However , Radcliffe ’s publicist Scott Boute told Gizmodo in an email that the role player does not use Twitter or any other social media .
Oh no , they suspended@danielradcliffe ’s Twitter account ! Was n’t it obvious he was doing a PARODY ? ? ?
— Al Yankovic ( @alyankovic)November 7 , 2022
All in all , Yankovic ’s assertation that Radcliffe was kicked off Twitter would seem to be correct , but the deception becomes absolved once you start delve in the weeds . The business relationship referenced by Yankovic,@danielradcliffe , has been inactive or suspended since at least 2011 , according to data from theInternet Archive .
Another clue come from Radcliffe himself . The doer has say publicly many time that hedoesn’t use societal media . In 2019 , he told Wired that he would probably be the kind of person who gets into combat on societal media , and therefore stay away from the platform .
“ I just live that if I were on Twitter I would be the kind of somebody that set about into fights , ” Radcliffe said in aWired Autocomplete Interview . “ If you are talk to someone on social medium who is take to be me , finger free to go and give them shit . ”
The actorreiterated his reasoningfor staying off social media in 2020 while on theHot OnesYouTube show .
“ I would love to say there ’s some variety of intellectual , well - thought - out intellect for this , because I considered getting a Twitter , and I 100 % cognize that if I did , you all would be waking up to stories of like , ‘ Dan Radcliffe make into fight with random individual on Twitter , ’ ” he said .
The only truth to be had here , it seems , is probably that Yankovic was make a antic based on all of the dramatic event over the Twitter suspension yesterday . We have to hand it to him , LOL .
Gizmodo reach out to Twitter for comment on imitation Radcliffe report that is currently freeze but did not receive a response , which is understandable since Muskgutted the company ’s communications departmentduring layoff . As noted by The Independent , this is potential a story about an imitator who took the handle @DanielRadcliffe year ago and got debar or lose interest .
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