Warner Bros. has apologized for partaking in “Barbienheimer” social media advertising after the corporate’s Japanese department posted a press release criticizing the headquarters for feeding into the craze on-line.
Numerous on-line customers in Japan have began a #NoBarbenheimer petition towards the joint-double function’s insensitivity to the atomic bomb assaults on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
“Warner Brothers regrets its recent insensitive social media engagement. The studio offers a sincere apology,” the corporate stated in a press release to Variety on Tuesday.
Concerns started when the U.S. “Barbie” Twitter account replied to a fanart poster of Barbie sitting on the shoulders of Oppenheimer in entrance of an atomic mushroom cloud, the “Barbie” U.S. Twitter account learn, “It’s going to be a summer to remember.”
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