The internet is obviously a place where you can find some rather outlandish theories about all sorts of matters, but even for the internet, a conspiracy theory that Brett Goldstein, who plays Roy Kent on Ted Lasso, is not actually real but rather created using computer graphics is out there for even the internet, and Goldstein has made a hilarious public statement on the matter, "clearing things up," as much as he could.The theory originated, as many out there ideas do, on the social news aggregation site, Reddit, and it quickly spread around the internet mostly to mock the theory. However, as these things go, the more attention you call to something, even if it is to mock it, will often attract some people who will actually believe it, despite it being shared specifically to mock how ludicrous the idea is.It all started with a thread on the Ted Lasso forum on Reddit last year, where a Reddit user named cutterman1234 posted the following, "I just started watching the pilot, and i'm up to the scene where roy is called into teds office. Am i crazy or does he look like a complete cgi character?"Most of the replies were, naturally, explaining how foolish the idea was, but there were a number of comments that agreed with it, like, "It certainly looks like it! I thought the same thing" and "he 100% is CGI, i swear he glows off the screen and looks like a halo character in movement and speech."However, it did not really explode until user guymrdth shared the discussions on Twitter, stating, "no more ted lasso discourse it's time for 'brett goldstein is cgi' discourse."
Brett Goldstein then issued a statement on Instagram, where he explained "there's a fucking load of mad shit happening on the internet today, as usual," before insisting that he is "a completely real normal human man" who does "normal human basic things like rendering and buffering and transferring data."
Of course, he did this via an animated video of himself.
Which is the best way to handle something as absurd as people suggesting that you don't actually exist and are just a computer program designed to show off Apple's top-of-the-line special effects.