Young activists in Japan have launched a petition urging the distributors of hit motion pictures “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” to disavow the “Barbenheimer” hashtag referring to each movies on-line amid controversy over memes involving atomic bomb photographs.
The marketing campaign has garnered greater than 17,000 signatures since its launch on Tuesday amid a backlash in Japan after a social media account of the Barbie Movie from Warner Bros Film Group engaged positively with fan posts, together with photographs of Barbie with a mushroom cloud coiffure.
Audiences within the United States and elsewhere have flocked to see each Barbie, a satirical comedy, and Oppenheimer, a biographical movie from Universal Pictures about physicist Robert Oppenheimer who led the undertaking to make atomic bombs, in an unlikely “Barbenheimer” double invoice impressed by their simultaneous launch on July 21.
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