--- description: The famous actor loves to post images of lost, lonely objects, captioning them with dry humor — although not all of his fans catch on. title: Tom Hanks Is Having a Lot of Fun Trolling His Fans image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt48605598dffb2984/6988cfcca988ca75306bc7d3/tom-hanks.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Tom Hanks Is Having Too Much Fun Trolling His Fans  by [Raisa Bruner](/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 1, 2017 5:42 PM CUT  NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 26: Tom Hanks attends "The Circle" Premiere at the BMCC Tribeca PAC on April 26, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival) NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 26: Tom Hanks attends "The Circle" Premiere at the BMCC Tribeca PAC on April 26, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival)Theo Wargo—Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival  by [Raisa Bruner](/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 1, 2017 5:42 PM CUT Tom Hanks is casually crushing the Twitter game. The [Oscar-winning actor](http://time.com/4583304/tom-hanks-forrest-gump-graham-norton-show/ "undefined") and [supporter of the press](http://time.com/4688948/tom-hanks-press-corps-coffee/ "undefined") has been subtly trolling his 13 million followers on the social media platform for months now, posting mysterious and cryptic images of random objects left on the streets with dry captions. Today, “Hanx” (as he signs off in each of his posts) shared a close-up image of a street pavement, seemingly empty. “Rats. Lost my keys. Seen my keys, anyone? Rats,” he tweeted. We needn’t worry — if you click on the image, it expands to show the missing item, in fact — but many of Hanks’s Twitter followers responded with concern to his tongue-in-cheek pronouncement, although others were on to him and his sneaky ways. > [](https://twitter.com/tomhanks/status/870295823577489409) > [](https://twitter.com/heaven%5Fsent69/status/870296202960666624) > [](https://twitter.com/NancyAmes4/status/870320248485969921) > [](https://twitter.com/pattid98/status/870321921250000896) Hanks is known as a kind of performance artist of Twitter photography. He regularly documents lost, lonely items discovered in unlikely locales, adding on his own cryptic messages to the found art images. Gloves are a particular favorite in his long-running series, but all kinds of objects get the “Hanx” treatment. > [](https://twitter.com/tomhanks/status/842437606105317377) > [](https://twitter.com/tomhanks/status/834250679984279556) > [](https://twitter.com/tomhanks/status/865945223704313861) > [](https://twitter.com/tomhanks/status/828316208407654400) Looks like his Twitter audience is just as enamored of his work on the platform as his film audience. > [](https://twitter.com/TedGlickman/status/870309945995964416) > [](https://twitter.com/RealDealAdamP/status/870299465231601665) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4801590/tom-hanks-trolling-fans/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4801590/tom-hanks-trolling-fans/"},"headline":"Tom Hanks Is Having Too Much Fun Trolling His Fans","datePublished":"2017-06-01T17:42:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:44:06.600Z","description":"The famous actor loves to post images of lost, lonely objects, captioning them with dry humor — although not all of his fans catch on.","url":"https://time.com/4801590/tom-hanks-trolling-fans/","keywords":["Newsfeed"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt48605598dffb2984/6988cfcca988ca75306bc7d3/tom-hanks.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt48605598dffb2984/6988cfcca988ca75306bc7d3/tom-hanks.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"\"The Circle\" Premiere - 2017 Tribeca Film Festival","caption":"\"The Circle\" Premiere - 2017 Tribeca Film Festival","creditText":"Theo Wargo—Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4801590/tom-hanks-trolling-fans/","name":"Tom Hanks Is Having Too Much Fun Trolling His Fans"}}]}] ```