Is This Amanda Bynes' Weirdest Tweet Yet? Or Does Saying She's Britney Spears Actually Make Perfect Sense?

Troubled star declares herself to be Britney. Period.

By Natalie Finn Dec 17, 2014 1:34 AMTags
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Is Amanda Bynes expressing a show of solidarity with Britney Spears? Because...

That's usually what statements such as this one are for.

Twitter

"I'm britney spears," Bynes tweeted at 1:22 p.m. PT.

While largely off the radar since she apologized in mid-November for making menacing comments about her parents that had been leaked online, Bynes returned to Twitter on Dec. 6 after a nearly month-long hiatus to show off her skinny midriff while trying on clothes. She followed up on Dec. 9 with the not particularly cryptic "If you aren't my friend at my worst then you aren't my friend at my best"; then, on Dec. 10, came "when ur madly in love with somebody u'll do whatever they want."

But today...

Now, Amanda has tweeted out some doozies over the past couple of years, calling herself, fellow celebs and family members ugly; defending the state of her mental health; slamming tabloids; offering hopes for her sexual future.

But while this may seem beyond random, here are a few possibles translations:

• Britney is currently on the cover of Women's Health and her abs look phenomenal. Amanda's abs are looking pretty good, too, so...there's that.

• Amanda woke up today thinking that she's Britney Spears.

• Bynes is actually comparing herself to her slightly older fellow former child star in a far more clear-eyed way. Spears hails from Disney while Bynes was a Nickelodeon kid, but Britney was just about Amanda's age when she seemingly hit the skids in 2007, shaving her head, temporarily losing custody of her kids and ending up in a conservatorship.

At least Spears has proven a hundred times over that there's light at the end of the tunnel.

So...solidarity it is.