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Macaulay Culkin Deliberately Pushed People Into A Tailspin By Announcing He’s Middle-Aged (15 Tweets)

For many people, Macaulay Culkin will always be a wee youthful lad, left behind in his parent’s home all alone. That’s how I picture him and that’s how I’d like to continue to picture him, but Culkin will not allow it.

via Twitter/@IncredibleCulk

He is aging and he insists on everyone recognizing that, thus forcing them to grapple with their own mortality as well. Now that’s what I call an influencer:

It was recently Culkin’s 40th birthday. He didn’t exactly have a middle-aged meltdown online, but he did openly share some of the stuff he was thinking about, which happens to coincide with a lot of the things other people don’t want to think about.

Like the passage of time, the loss of youth, and the inevitability of losing relevance in this fast-paced world. So cruel!

Culkin currently runs a satirical website called Bunny Ears and has withdrawn from acting entirely, it seems. He is still very open online, obviously, and has a huge following that knows and loves him for more than Home Alone. When he suggested he might take up surfing and asked people to do a little Photoshop so he could figure out if it was a good look, they were very happy to oblige:

In a recent interview with Esquire, Culkin, who goes by Mack now, explained that he was famous at such a young age, it has kind of made him one of a kind. His retreat from public attention as an actor wasn’t motivated by anything bad. He just has his own row to hoe:

“People assume that I’m crazy, or a kook, or damaged. Weird. Cracked. And up until the last year or two, I haven’t really put myself out there at all. So I can understand that. It’s also like, Okay, everybody, stop acting so freaking shocked that I’m relatively well-adjusted. Look: I’m a pretty peerless person. If I was an accountant, I could look left and right, and there’s other accountants sitting next to me in the office. It’s not like that. It’s one of those things where, like, the cliché that we’re all snowflakes? That we’re all unique? Well, you know what?” Mack leans in real close, drops his voice, looks me dead in the eye, and says, with a smile I haven’t seen since the last time I watched Home Alone and Kevin McCallister smiled directly into the camera, “I actually am a snowflake.”

A snowflake that doesn’t melt under the heat of turning 40. It’s the rest of us who can’t take the heat.

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