TWEETING your grief at the passing of a Hollywood legend shows you have heart. But getting that legend confused with some other Mickey just shows you might be missing in brains.

Scott Feinberg, of The Hollywood Reporter, took to Twitter today to share a series of tweets from so-called film fans who confused the pint-sized Hollywood legend with tough-guy Mickey Rourke.

One was best known as the star of The Andy Hardy series. The other is best known for his Oscar nominated performance in The Wrestler. One had a cheeky grin, the other has a face only a mother could love — assuming that mother had problems with her vision.

Feinberg summed up those who failed to think before they tweeted in a tweet of his own: “Our society is lost to morons.”

It could be worse. There is one more famous Hollywood lengend called Mickey - although maybe with his mouse ears he is the easy one to tell him apart from the rest.

How sad that Mickey Rooney passes away the same day as Wrestlemania, he was brilliant in 'The Wrestler'. #YNWA — David Shaw (@lfcmaestro23) April 7, 2014

RIP Mickey Rooney. Like the character in his comeback role, The Wrestler, he was a true Hollywood surviver. — Adam Lowes (@adlow76) April 7, 2014

Bad news about Mickey Rooney, bloody good actor, and an inspiration to ugly blokes everywhere. I thought The Wrestler was his highlight. — Former Legend (@Former_legend) April 7, 2014

RIP Mickey Rooney. Loved you in "9 1/2 Weeks" & "The Wrestler" — Damon Mollenkopf (@dkmoll) April 7, 2014

Mikey Rourke is not dead? — Boy George (@BoyGeorge) April 7, 2014

Our society is lost to morons. — Scott Feinberg (@ScottFeinberg) April 7, 2014

Originally published as Tweeting film fans kill off wrong Mickey