Bless Jim Carrey’s weird little heart, he just loves to make drawings. They’re roughly of the same quality you’d expect if he was asking mommy to hang them on the refrigerator, but he’s got a Twitter account so he shows the whole world. His latest masterpiece was a drawing of recently passed singer Aretha Franklin, and it’s… uhhh… an interesting interpretation.
She looks very… what’s the word here… white. That is a white woman you’ve drawn there, Jim. Some people tried to say it’s because she’s supposed to look washed out from “going into the light” but there’s no way she’s that washed out. She looks whiter than a Trump rally in that drawing.
I was not the only person to notice Jim Carrey drew a white Aretha Franklin.
why is she white
— polyfawn (@polyfawn_) August 16, 2018
thought it was Kathy Bates
— Fallon Stone | BLM (he/him) (@FallonStone) August 16, 2018
Well, you had a good run there, Picasso
— B.C. Drury (@BDGarp) August 16, 2018
Is that Bea Arthur?
— Tony Mazur (@TonyMazur) August 16, 2018
— jinger jade (@jingerjade_) August 16, 2018
And at least one fan did a much better job than Jim with a tribute drawing. Good work guy, you get a gold star.
Of course, Jim may have put the cap on his brown marker a bit too soon, but he got a reprieve when Fox News used a picture of Patti LaBelle. No, really.
This became a bit of a meme itself.
Fox News mourns the passing of Aretha Franklin. pic.twitter.com/yFRLEEQ6R9
— Walter Chaw 周瑜 (@mangiotto) August 16, 2018
The world is now saying farewell
To Aretha, who cast such a spell,
Including the crews
At TV’s Fox News,
Who knew her as Patti LaBelle.— Limericking (@Limericking) August 16, 2018
But it was The Onion who won the day. Natch.
Fox News Apologizes For Mistaking Patti LaBelle For Aretha Franklin https://t.co/KmbVS5yWqY pic.twitter.com/AVK86TnVH2
— The Onion (@TheOnion) August 16, 2018
And just in case you don’t get that joke, like a lot of people on Twitter seemed not to… that’s Gladys Knight.