To be fair I think that method acting requires you to let go of your conceptual self, so I can see why Carey wouldn't necessarily think it was him, if he was in character.

To clarify: I don't think there's necessarily anything happening which is particularly interesting neurologically, but it is to say that I don't think the act of spitting on someone is necessarily the asshole move. I think the asshole move is to commit yourself to staying in character. There's something to be said for whether the commitment itself is worth it as an actor, and whether actions could be excused or forgiven, but I'm not here to make those points.

Where I am here to say is that Carey's choice to commit to staying in character makes him responsible for the impact and outcomes on other people.

It makes me think of Jared Leto, who was probably just trying a bit too hard, and sent dead rats to his co-stars or something?

I think that's a case of trying to bootstrap method acting but was certainly not very convincing. I think there's a case to be made that 'Leto' was responsible for that one. I'd call it "cosplaying at being obnoxious". In this case, I'd say Leto is responsible for those actions.

I had this with the youtuber and investigative journalist Johnny Harris. He has some good videos where he does deep dive investigative journalism but then in other videos he hears something and just accepts it as fact. For instance, in his video on who is Elon Musk he accepts what Musk said about his history as fact and didn't check any of it. Or he uses multiple sources all leading to the same source: Musk. So the entire video is a big Musk circlejerk promo video. But with other videos he doesn't accept something that easily and goes really deep to find the truth. So I googled the guy, apparently he's a devout Mormon. How can I take this guy seriously with anything if I can't trust him to check his sources properly every time, when some things are just what he believes and accepts without doubting any of it. I mean, the guy believes in fairy tales, and really weard one too. So all of his material becomes junk as it's really hard to disect the good journalism from the bad yourself, without doing all the research yourself completely. He's a selective journalist, not an investigative one. But it took a while to spot the twisted info he produces. I followed him for a while and though he delivered proper investigations until he made videos on something I specialized in and he made critical errors while stating it as fact. This is, in my opinion, one of the most dangerous fake news forms out there. It even fooled me, while I'm not easily fooled.

But as an internet commentator I am morally obligated to either stan them or hate them!

This is pretty much everyone.

I wouldn't rush to Jim, though.

I'd go...at a medium pace...

In what category?

Penis size?

Yeah, true

Vaccine skepticism

In 2009, Carrey wrote an article questioning the merits of vaccination for The Huffington Post.[149] With former partner Jenny McCarthy, Carrey led a "Green Our Vaccines" march in Washington, D.C., to advocate for the removal of "toxic substances" from children's vaccines, out of a belief that children had received "too many vaccines, too soon, many of which are toxic".[150] The rally was criticized by David Gorski, an American surgical oncologist on Science-Based Medicine blog, for being anti-vaccine and not "pro-safe vaccine",[151] and by Steven Parker on the WebMD website for being "irresponsible".[152]

On July 1, 2015, after the signing of a new vaccination law, Carrey called California Governor Jerry Brown a "corporate fascist" who was "poisoning" children by enacting the vaccination requirements.[153] The law disallowed religious and philosophical reasons for exemption from vaccination. Carrey was criticized for being "ignorant when it comes to vaccines" by Arthur Caplan, head of the Division of Medical Ethics at New York University,[154] and by Jeffrey Kluger, senior writer at Time, who described his anti-vaccination statements as "angry, dense and immune to reason".[155]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Carrey

Unfortunately, yes. Check out the Wikipedia article. It's a roller coaster ride.

I think you may be reading him wrong. He keeps saying he isn't him or anyone else. I think he thinks that he is just a guy, and Jim Carrey is his Batman. I kinda feel bad for the guy, as it seems that he has to keep feeding the machine so he can pay for whatever debts he's trying to take care of.