discussion #NoBarbenheimer trends in Japan, WB Japan apologises, but not WB USA

[Bloodflowers.]

I mean, it does look insensitive when you look at it from that persoective but clearly that is not the context behind why they are making such memes

[halcyonday]

Not Oppenheimer ruining Barbie's hype in Japan  there's one movie about bombs and it's NOT Barbie

[Lagerfeld]

The edits are messy but I'm not sure what this has to do with the Barbie movie.

 

[leyaris11]

The stupidity marketing when you glamorizing an atomic bomb.  First is the stupid nine dash line now this. 

[RockStarShit101]

Banning stuff around the globe at this point is ridiculous because you can access to anything by just one click on the internet. It’s doesn’t work anymore!

[Into The Void]

1 hour ago, halcyonday said:

Not Oppenheimer ruining Barbie's hype in Japan  there's one movie about bombs and it's NOT Barbie

I was like what does Barbie have to do with what happened in Japan 

[kandicha]

Understandably so. The Barbie marketing team kinda fumbled that one, they could've shared the memes without the actual bomb/explosion in it which is what makes it cross the line into insensitive.

[Marianah Adkins]

The way a film about a Barbie doll is getting these kinds of international incidents is just 

A mess tho, understandable why they are mad.

What I do not like though is this seeming infantilization of the Japanese by certain Western leftists when talking about the atomic bomb and what not. Oppenheimer was a biopic about the man who created the bomb and its consequences and yet these ppl are angry saying that the Japanese side of the story is not being represented  like did the pandemic wipe out media literacy or…

The atomic explosion was a humanitarian disaster no doubt about that but remember that it was done in the context of WW2 where the Allies were wary on trying to force Japan to surrender. It is very well known that Japan was willing to fight to the death hence why the bomb was deployed to finally force weight on them. This infantilization is ridiculous esp considering how that country has deliberately revised its wartime genocidal history to its citizens. 

[sunbathinganimal]

[Haschwalth]

i mean...

[Gwendolyn]

 

Their saying Warner Bros US haven't responded to them asking for a apology 

[Arcadius]

At first I thought it was just the one post I didn't know it was multiple. 

 

Clearly it was some ignorant intern but at the same time this feels a tad extreme over a meme. 

Edited July 31, 2023 by Arcadius

[leyaris11]

6 hours ago, RockStarShit101 said:

Banning stuff around the globe at this point is ridiculous because you can access to anything by just one click on the internet. It’s doesn’t work anymore!

not in china, n.korean, sudan, iraq... or some countries that's don't access to the internet or certain website and/or you can go to jailed for watching these banned movies. 

[V$.]

6 hours ago, Gwendolyn said:

 

Their saying Warner Bros US haven't responded to them asking for a apology 

The likes 

[Aethereal]

Barbie is not really popular in Asia so they better be careful with Japan. 

[MingYouToo]

they honestly expect the west to care when the reason for context why that bomb was even dropped in the first place was bc that imperialist country back then was willing to fight to the death to rule their side of the world girl pls

 

on a humanitarian level the hiroshima and nagasaki incidents are horrifying but contextualized be so ******* fr the only people that get to be outraged are the families of the innocents who lost their lives those days. 

 

warner bros US can do whatever the hell they want at the end of the day japan was public enemy #1 for a goddamn good reason and quirky insensitive marketing does not change that the whole shebang happened because of how greedy and evil their country was. 

 

wb japan should issue the apology, i dont see any reason why wb us should.

 

anyways barbie is on lock for 1.3B already with or without japan and frankly this is a very monolithic take on japan as a society. there is a significant portion of the people that too, just don't 'give a ****', not every single citizen is out to cry for the war crimes brought to their country because of their very own war crimes

Edited August 1, 2023 by MingYouToo

[MingYouToo]

13 hours ago, kandicha said:

Understandably so. The Barbie marketing team kinda fumbled that one, they could've shared the memes without the actual bomb/explosion in it which is what makes it cross the line into insensitive.

To think Oppenheimer was basically parasitically sucking off of Barbie's hype and now Barbie is facing the heat for a concept that came from Oppenheimer itself is

 

Evil men latching onto pink women's success then letting women take the heat, a true female experience I fear!

[genetic fail]

 

[truthteller]

it only takes a meme to turn the acclaimed Operation Barbie Summer marketing campaign into a PR nightmare

[NausAllien]

It's absolutely disgusting the way Oppenheimer has been glamorized by pairing it with Barbie. The Father of the Atomic Bomb, one of the worst weapons of mass destruction ever made, should not be paired with a character based on a doll for kids. It's insane.