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himsical Wordsmith Charts a Course Beyond Twitter
Jonny Sun's online personality - a sentimental alien - has attracted a huge following. Now he's trying to figure out what comes next.

By JESSE LICHTENSTEINJUNE 15 2017

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here are a few things we should clear up about the Twitter humorist known as "jomny sun." Although sun's Twitter bio describes him as an "aliebn confuesed abot humamn lamgauge," and his avatar is a line drawing of a smiling alien in a T -shirt, he is, in fact, a real person, and that really is his name. Also, he knows how to spell.

Twitter is layered with niche and broadly popular humor accounts with handles like @woodmuffin, @pixelatedboat and @weedhitler. Many of Sun's half-million followers can be forgiven for assuming that, even correcting for typos, "Jonny Sun" is a nom de tweet. "I'm fortunate that my name sounds like a fake name," Sun says.

The jokes Sun tweets are sometimes absurd, sometimes clever, often both. They would not necessarily kill at the Laugh Factory, but Sun's Twitter account offers comfort, whimsy and an alternative to the rage / panic / schadenfreude / political flame-warring of much online discourse.

on earth: a magiciam puts his hand in his hat
in the rabbit realm: The Hand emerges. it is time. the rabit council must chose a sacrifice

LIFE HACK: give ur next child a normal name
ME: are u still mad that ur mother and i named u Life Hack

And many of the tweets are not jokes at all - they're unironically joyful and lonely, a little bit bewildered by humanity and terminally confused about English spelling.

look. life is bad. evryones sad. we're all gona die. but i alredy bought this inflatable boumcy castle so r u gona take ur shoes off or wat
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Sun's recipe of amusement tinged with melancholy has won him the fandom of big names in comedy and entertainment. The comedian Will Arnett told me, "I just latched onto his particular brand of - it's not just humor but, beneath the surface, a very resonating life lesson." When Lin-Manuel Miranda first met Sun backstage at "Hamilton," he joyously tweeted: "I met JOMNY SUN! It's a goob night! "Sun frequently converses with Miranda and Mara Wilson; he'll chat with Arnett, Patton Oswalt and Joss Whedon and has become close with an array of Twitter and YouTube stars.
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