The official Disney Twitter account tweeting an existential meme featuring the iconic Pinocchio is bizarre; Disney deleting the tweet from its account more than 15 hours later is even weirder.
The tweet featured a pre-brough-to-life Pinocchio lifelessly staring into the distance, with the text reading: “When someone compliments you, but you’re dead inside.” Additionally, the tweet’s tagline inexplicably stated that it “Makes no difference who you are.”
For those of you who missed it on Sunday, here’s the deleted tweet in question. Behold the infamous Pinocchio Meme of 2018:
For a company as safe and politically correct as the Walt Disney Corporation, a global entity with almost unfathomable proportions, this is all very odd and unexpected behavior. Of course, regardless of who at Disney was responsible for this strange decision, the course has been corrected with the tweet being officially deleted. Naturally, enough people noticed the tweet in time, and hit Twitter with some hilarious reactions. Enjoy the jokes, and try not to be so dead inside.
