Who among us hasn't been forced to discard a life-sized cardboard cutout of their celebrity ex?
Ben Affleck and Ana De Armas are famous actors, but they are also human beings who experience the same ups and downs in life the way we all do. Red blood runs through their veins; they sleep when they’re tired; they smile when they’re happy and cry when they’re sad. They live and breathe just like all the ordinary people of the world and, like all the ordinary people of the world, they deal with the end of a relationship by discarding life-sized cardboard cutouts of one another in order to move on with their lives.
A masked man (who Ana De Armas Updates, your home for Ana De Armas updates on Twitter, suggests may be Casey Affleck) was photographed throwing a life-sized cardboard image of de Armas into a garbage bin outside Affleck’s home. This may seem funny from a distance, but it’s important to have a little heart and remember that all of us go through this at some point. We box up our ex’s things and drop them off at their new place. We put their photos in a box and push it to the back of a closet. We take the life-sized cardboard cutouts they created for us as expensive pranks and put them in the trash.
As relatable as this is, it hasn’t stopped the internet from making jokes out of another person’s sadness.