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Jaden Smith deletes Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, world mourns

How will we know what colour trees are now?

Christopher Hooton
Tuesday 05 May 2015 03:49 EDT
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Jaden Smith, actor, rapper and prolific poster of pseudo-philosophy, has disappeared from Twitter and Facebook and made his Instagram private, for reasons unknown.

It's possible he became overwhelmed by the volume of social media, but a perhaps more likely explanation is that this is some kind of stunt.

As in he will reinstate his Twitter in a day's time and post something like 'OMG YOU GUYS I WAS STILL HERE THE ENTIRE TIME, MY AURORA CAN SPREAD DOWN DIFFERENT AVENUES. I AM EVERYWHERE AT ONCE. I AM JADEN. I AM NOT JADEN.'

While his tweets threaten to be lost in their entirety forever, fortunately Complex thought to save a fair few of them and turn them into a quiz, encompassing such classics as 'Currently Going Through Customs Even Though I Was Born on This Planet,' 'Instagram Is A Black Hole Of Time And Energy', and the infamous arboreal nugget of wisdom that was: 'Most Trees Are Blue'.

While we await word from his rep, here are some other people as upset about this as I am:

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