Grimes Has Made A Bunch Of Social Media Accounts For Her Unborn Baby
Grimes is gonna Grimes.
When Grimes first announced that she was pregnant (sorta), the internet reacted with a wave of memes lightly mocking her penchant for the bizarre, and imagining just how strange her baby’s life might be.
Well, looks like none of those memes went far enough, because Grimes herself just made a series of very odd social media accounts for her unborn baby.
Yep, never one to be outdone by the people who imagined that her progeny was going to come out of the womb speaking Wingdings, Grimes decided to up this whole bizarre news cycle to the next level.
The ‘Oblivion’ singer has nicknamed her child ‘War Nymph’ — presumably not the baby’s actual name, but who knows — and set them up Twitter and Instagram accounts. At the moment, both accounts are on private, which the singer explains is because the child is ‘in Beta form.’
Yes while she’s in beta form she’s private
— ༺GRIMES༻ 🤍 (@Grimezsz) January 22, 2020
Still, Grimes has posted at least one ‘baby photo’ on her main channels; a snap of War Nymph stringing a bow and arrow.
🗡🧚🏻♀️ @WarNymph pic.twitter.com/01Vh6P6YDr
— ༺GRIMES༻ 🤍 (@Grimezsz) January 22, 2020
Just to make this whole thing even weirder, the musician told a fan that War Nymph is a de-aged clone, which probably explains why the baby looks so eerily like her (those eyebrows!)
Technically this one is a de-aged digital clone but prob similar
— ༺GRIMES༻ 🤍 (@Grimezsz) January 22, 2020
To be honest, all of this only feels like more fodder for those who reckon that Grimes’ baby news is a big old publicity stunt. So far, everything she’s said about her child has been cloaked in layers of irony and bizarre remove. Is it still possible that in a few months she might announce the whole thing is a hoax, designed to get us riled up about little more than a tabloid news piece? Or is it some comment on the nature of artistic gestation, her album subbing in for her child, and vice versa?
Only time will tell, I guess.