--- title: Tom Hanks Is Having Too Much Fun on Twitter Trolling Fans 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. canonical: https://time.com/4801590/tom-hanks-trolling-fans/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-01T17:42:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-08T09:05:05.514Z og:title: Tom Hanks Is Having a Lot of Fun Trolling His Fans og:description: He's addressing the world's lost and found needs, one missing object at a time og:url: https://time.com/4801590/tom-hanks-trolling-fans/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt48605598dffb2984/6988cfcca988ca75306bc7d3/tom-hanks.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: "The Circle" Premiere - 2017 Tribeca Film Festival og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Tom Hanks Is Having a Lot of Fun Trolling His Fans twitter:description: He's addressing the world's lost and found needs, one missing object at a time twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt48605598dffb2984/6988cfcca988ca75306bc7d3/tom-hanks.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Tom Hanks Is Having Too Much Fun Trolling His Fans > Sponsored content. 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The Sully star crashed a wedding photo shoot in Central Park Sunday, pausing mid-jog to congratulate the couple._  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jun 1, 2017 5:42 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jun 1, 2017 5:42 PM UTC Tom Hanks is casually crushing the Twitter game. The [Oscar-winning actor](http://time.com/4583304/tom-hanks-forrest-gump-graham-norton-show/) and [supporter of the press](http://time.com/4688948/tom-hanks-press-corps-coffee/) 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) ## Transcript [ UNKNOWN ] Can we get a picture with you? Can we get a photo? By all means. I am going to do that right here. What's your name? Elizabeth. My daughter's name. What's your name? Ryan. Ryan you're a lucky man. Elizabeth you You've done well for yourself, and I'm going to have to post this myself. We have extra seats. There's plenty of alcohol. [ LAUGH ] I have a dinner engagement [ UNKNOWN ]. [ LAUGH ] You know I am an ordained minister, if the guy cancels, just let me know. [ LAUGH ] [ UNKNOWN ] How long have you guys been engaged? We're getting selfie [ LAUGH ], OK we're getting good, so that's a good aim. [ INAUDIBLE ], Congratulations Thank You. All right, Bye Bye [ LAUGH ] [ APPLAUSE ] Get down here with me. Get around here. Here we go, here's the wedding in a few years. There you go. Good luck to you. Wedding's over guys. 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