Considering the slew of people Twitter proprietor Elon Musk has banned from his newly acquired social community, it didn’t appear stunning when ‘Weird’ Al Yankovic expressed outrage that Harry Potter star and Weird Al impersonator Daniel Radcliffe was amongst these kicked off on Monday. Yet—although it could be exhausting to consider—it wasn’t Musk’s fault this time, as a result of Radcliffe isn’t on any social media channels.

On Monday afternoon, Yankovic tweeted that Radcliffe, who lately performed the comedic artist within the Weird: The Al Yankovic Story biopic, had been suspended from Twitter. Yankovic implied that Radcliffe had been utilizing his Twitter account to parody him, which might have made sense because the biopic Radcliffe starred in about Yankovic was launched this month.

“Oh no, they suspended @danielradcliffe’s Twitter account! Wasn’t it obvious he was doing a PARODY???” Yankovic wrote.

Under Musk’s current strict edict banning impersonation of others—primarily as a result of Kathy Griffin, Valerie Bertinelli, and extra had been making enjoyable of the Tesla CEO—it might make sense that Radcliffe would have been punished for parodying Yankovic, even when it was to advertise the film. Not the case, although. Some information shops, together with the Toronto Star and Katie Couric Media, reported on Yankovic’s declare as true. However, Radcliffe’s publicist Scott Boute instructed Gizmodo in an e-mail that the actor doesn’t use Twitter or some other social media.

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All in all, Yankovic’s assertation that Radcliffe was kicked off Twitter would appear to be right, however the deception turns into clear when you begin digging within the weeds. The account referenced by Yankovic, @danielradcliffe, has been inactive or suspended since a minimum of 2011, in keeping with information from the Internet Archive.

Another clue comes from Radcliffe himself. The actor has acknowledged publicly many instances that he doesn’t use social media. In 2019, he instructed Wired that he would most likely be the sort of one that will get into fights on social media, and subsequently stayed away from the platforms.

“I just know that if I were on Twitter I would be the kind of person that gets into fights,” Radcliffe stated in a Wired Autocomplete Interview. “If you are talking to someone on social media who is claiming to be me, feel free to go and give them shit.”

The actor reiterated his reasoning for staying off social media in 2020 whereas on the Hot Ones YouTube present.

“I would love to say there’s some sort of intellectual, well-thought-out reason for this, because I considered getting a Twitter, and I 100% know that if I did, you all would be waking up to stories of like, ‘Dan Radcliffe gets into fight with random person on Twitter,’” he stated.

The solely reality available right here, it appears, might be  that Yankovic was making a joke based mostly on all the drama over the Twitter suspensions yesterday. We have at hand it to him, LOL.

Gizmodo reached out to Twitter for touch upon faux Radcliffe account that’s at the moment suspended however didn’t obtain a response, which is comprehensible since Musk gutted the corporate’s communications division throughout layoffs. As famous by The Independent, that is probably a narrative about an impersonator who took the deal with @DanielRadcliffe years in the past and bought suspended or misplaced curiosity.