2023-08-02 16:22:17
Japan Warner Protests Playing Barbie Highmore Mushroom Cloud America Warner Publicly Apologizes
2023-08-03 00:22:17 Source: Financial circles share to:
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According to reports, Warner Japan issued a statement on social media platforms to protest Warner’s U.S. headquarters’ participation in the “Barbie Highmore” meme, and believed that these meme pictures were a joke of the mushroom cloud of nuclear weapons that killed many Japanese people, which was offensive.
Recently, Warner America publicly apologized for this.
In recent days, the official social media account of “Barbie” operated by Warner America has commented and replied to some tweets related to “Barbie” posted by some accounts in a relaxed tone (“Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” released on the same day in North America The movie is dubbed “Barbie Highmore” by movie fans), and some of the original tweets included fan pictures of “Barbie Highmore” created by netizens, including the PS secondary creation of the mushroom cloud and nuclear explosion images of “Oppenheimer” .
Therefore, some people initiated the topic of “No Barbenheimer” to protest the “Barbie” official tweet “jokingly spreading tweets that killed many Japanese people as a joke”; some Japanese netizens said that since “Barbie” “Official push to join the ranks of teasers, then you won’t watch “Barbie”.
Since then, Barbie Japan’s official social media account (operated by Warner Japan) has released a statement, “We deem it regrettable that the official Barbie account at US headquarters has responded to a social media post from a fan of ‘Barbie Highmore’ .We take this matter very seriously, we demand appropriate action from US Headquarters, and we apologize to those offended by this series of ill-considered actions. – Japan Warner”
Recently, Warner America deleted a series of controversial comments on the official Twitter of “Barbie”, and issued a statement through the media: “Warner Bros. regrets the lack of sensitivity of social media behavior in recent days, and the company expresses its sincere apology.”
“Barbie” has been scheduled to be released in Japan on August 11, while “Oppenheimer” has not yet been released in Japan.
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