Jimmy Fallon, host of the Tonight Show, is alive and well despite what you may have come to believe from the ‘RIP Jimmy Fallon’ trend on Twitter. Elon Musk’s Twitter is a chaotic place and it’s not clear how the hashtag started trending.
Currently, Twitter timelines are flooded with people tweeting ‘RIP Jimmy Fallon’ with photos of a variety of other comedians and late night show hosts like James Corden, Steve Harvey, Jimmy Kimmel et al. It appears that Twitter users are having some sort of twisted fun at the expense of Fallon.
Many Twitter users claim that the following tweet is where it all started: a black-and-white photo of James Corden tweeted with the caption “Gone but not forgotten. Rest easy king… Sept 19, 1974-Nov 15, 2022 #RIPJimmyFallon“.
Since the tweet went viral and the trend was sparked, the Twitter user who posted this clarified: “Since this is seriously blowing up, thought I’d just comment that this is satire. Fallon is alive and hope he’s doing well.”
Lake County Florida News reported that it might also have started with a fake Tonight Show account posting a manipulated image of Fallon and claiming, with a false birth-year cited, that he had passed away.
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