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"I'm doing just fine," he reassured the magazine.

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00:00Is Ben Affleck sad? Despite the eye-catching headline of a recent viral New Yorker story

00:05about his great sadness, the actor says he's doing just fine. On Saturday, New Yorker

00:09writer Naomi Fry published a story titled The Great Sadness of Ben Affleck. The article

00:15analyzed recent pictures of the Justice League actor from a training session for his upcoming

00:19Netflix film Triple Frontier. In the tabloid photos, Affleck is shown staring out into the

00:24ocean with his shoulders hunched and his colorful back tattoos visible to the camera. Affleck

00:29has previously claimed that those tattoos were painted on for a movie and are not real.

00:33With a peg of the recent glum-looking pictures, Fry recalled the sad Affleck meme from 2016

00:38and suggested the photo was symbolic of men's place in the world in 2018. Fry wrote,

00:44The image suggests not just the fall of Affleck, but the coming fall of man. There is something

00:48about this exhausted father that reflexively induces panic. We've been living in a world

00:53run by Afflecks for so long. Will we even know ourselves when they're gone?

00:57But on Thursday, Affleck tweeted at the magazine with a cheeky response that also seemed to acknowledge

01:02whether those back tattoos are indeed his. He wrote,

01:05I'm doing just fine. Thick skin bolstered by garish tattoos. Affleck also responded back when the

01:10sad Affleck meme went viral. After a Batman vs. Superman interview with Henry Cavill, in which

01:15he didn't speak, one YouTuber overlaid it with Simon and Garfunkel's The Sound of Silence.

01:20The interesting thing is that…

01:22Hello darkness, my old friend. I've come to talk with you again.

01:30When BBC One asked him what the film had taught him about being an actor and director, he quipped,

01:34It taught me not to do interviews with Henry Cavill where I don't say anything. And they can lay

01:39Simon and Garfunkel tracks over it. That's one thing I learned.

01:41And while Ben claims he's just fine, perhaps his appearance of permanent gloom all started with his

01:46box office flop known as Geely. I mean, if JLo can't save us from sorrow, who can?

01:51But shout out to Ben, because you are literally all of us who woke up today thinking it was Friday.

01:55But alas, here we are. For more on this story, head to DHR.com and be sure to let us know your

02:00thoughts on Affleck's Twitter response in the comments. Until next time, for The Hollywood Reporter News,

02:05I'm Tiffany Taylor.