{"id":6015,"date":"2019-01-04T23:44:04","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T23:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/black-mirror-bandersnatch-star-will-poulter-quits-twitter\/"},"modified":"2019-01-04T23:44:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T23:44:04","slug":"black-mirror-bandersnatch-star-will-poulter-quits-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/black-mirror-bandersnatch-star-will-poulter-quits-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Mirror: Bandersnatch star Will Poulter quits Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Bandersnatch actor Will Poulter has quit Twitter, following the response to his role in the Black Mirror episode.<\/p>\n

Will, who appears as Colin Ritman in the “choose your own adventure” Netflix drama, says he needs to change his relationship with social media.<\/p>\n

Some people commenting on Bandersnatch called Will “ugly” for his appearance in the show.<\/p>\n

“In light of my recent experiences I am choosing to take a step back, of sorts, from Twitter,” he wrote.<\/p>\n

He also thanked people who had commented on the show for their responses to the show “whatever they may be”.<\/p>\n

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Bandersnatch is about the dark and difficult adaptation of a book into a video game by a group of software developers and has several different endings.<\/p>\n

In the show, Will plays a game creator – and he’d tweeted to say he was “nervous” about the episode’s release.<\/p>\n

Comments about his appearance were posted after Bandersnatch came out on 28 December 2018.<\/p>\n

Will announced he was leaving Twitter less than a week later.<\/p>\n

“As we all know there is balance to be struck in our engagements with social media. There are positives to enjoy and inevitable negatives that are best avoided,” he said.<\/p>\n

“It’s a balance I have struggled with for a while now and in the interest of my mental health I feel the time has come to change my relationship with social media.”<\/p>\n

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Will added that he would occasionally continue to tweet for several anti-bullying organisations.<\/p>\n

“I hope that this shift to reduce my personal expression and increase the focus on issues that matter will result in a better outcome for everyone.”<\/p>\n

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