{"id":663949,"date":"2026-10-24T10:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T10:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/663949\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T10:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T10:34:16","slug":"johnny-depps-ebenezer-is-handing-out-pennies-on-venmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/663949\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Depp’s Ebenezer is handing out pennies on Venmo"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the latest example of phone-brained movie marketing, Paramount Pictures announced on Friday that Johnny Depp\u2019s Ebenezer Scrooge has opened a Venmo account to promote Ti West\u2019s upcoming Christmas movie, Ebenezer.<\/a> \u201cEbenezer Scrooge is now on @venmo,\u201d a post from the official Ebenezer X account<\/a> read. \u201cThink he\u2019s feeling generous? \ud83d\udcb0 Send a request.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, should you feel compelled to request money from Johnny Depp as Ebenezer Scrooge (or a bot assigned to the Ebenezer Venmo account programmed to behave like Johnny Depp as Ebenezer Scrooge), you should know going in that any hope of extracting more than one red cent from the infamous miser of fiction is folly. Have you not read A Christmas Carol? If Bob Cratchit\u2019s sob stories couldn\u2019t secure a loan from Scrooge, what hope do you have of convincing the owners of a Venmo account created solely to promote a Scrooge movie to pay off your gas bill or whatever?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ebenezer Scrooge is now on @venmo. Think he\u2019s feeling generous? \ud83d\udcb0 Send a request: https:\/\/t.co\/HQHfSLTY59 https:\/\/t.co\/2sxvU7rwEG<\/p>\n

\u2014 Ebenezer (@ebenezermovie) October 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Indeed, should you head to the official Ebenezer Venmo account <\/a>and request some quick cash, your account will soon be richer by a single penny, a sum so worthless that it was discontinued by the U.S. Treasury at Christmastime last year.<\/a> Despite this paltry sum, folks are lining up to engage with fake-Scrooge in droves\u00a0(per Variety)<\/a>, with requests for Scrooge cents causing a temporary jam in Venmo traffic Friday evening, though that appears to have been fixed. In a sick and perhaps sadly predictable twist to this story, people are also allowed to send money to the Ebenezer account in whatever amount they deem funny, with one account posting, \u201cFor cheers and joy! (And maybe a little luck please).\u201d Variety notes that \u201cit is unclear\u201d where this cash will end up. What\u2019s that old saying? \u201cA fool and his money are soon parted?\u201d Maybe Paramount can print holiday greeting cards with that on them to promote Ebenezer next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the latest example of phone-brained movie marketing, Paramount Pictures announced on Friday that Johnny Depp\u2019s Ebenezer Scrooge…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[61,60,202,80],"class_list":["post-663949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}