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Kirby’s Truman Show Moment Is Perfect
There’s a new open-world Kirby game coming and this one is hiding some big secrets. When the pink blob sees a crack in the sky and smashes it wide open to reveal “a world beyond,” it’s a neat reveal that also happens to be a perfect, if accidental, allusion to The Truman Show. The two shall forevermore be inextricably linked. The internet is making sure of that.
For anyone born after the ’90s and who hasn’t gone back and watched an all-time classic, The Truman Show starred Jim Carrey as a guy tricked into living his life on a giant soundstage, completely unaware that he’s been recorded for a reality TV show since birth. Everyone is in on the exploitative gag except him, which eventually begins to unravel in ways both humorous and exceedingly grim. It’s an exceptional time capsule of turn-of-the-century paranoia about consumerism, endless surveillance, and the entertainment industrial complex that has only proven more prescient with time.
So naturally it’s the first thing some peoples’ minds went to when Kirby discovered his perceived world is also just a facade keeping the truth hidden from him:
— austin_walker (@austinwalker.bsky.social) 2026-09-09T14:48:07.190Z
Why didnt Truman just do this? Is he stupid? pic.twitter.com/LKzkrGOjh4
Listen to me, Kirby. There's no more truth out there than there is in the world I created for you.
— hotcyder (@hotcyder.bsky.social) 2026-09-09T14:55:22.901Z
They put Kirby in the Truman show pic.twitter.com/y06tfl8CBH
Kirby and the World Beyond (2027) pic.twitter.com/hIlqxW3bvu
— brodie / knox (@brodiecantskate) September 9, 2026