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Mattel’s ‘Wicked’ movie dolls mistakenly list pornography site on packaging(www.nbcnews.com)

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The film’s official website is WickedMovie.com, but the address listed on the plastic packaging for the special edition dolls, created in partnership with Universal Pictures, is written as Wicked.com. The latter website directs to a page that requires users to be 18 years or older to enter.

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tehn00bi@lemmy.world
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Anyone remember White House.com?

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NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml
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Yeah, I can’t believe they gave up that amazing internet real estate.

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In circa 2001 we were supposed to visit the website for channel 10, the broadcaster as part of an assignment. I can’t actually remember what the assignment was that involved going to this commercial broadcaster’s website but I think it was supposed to help learn internet research skills. They took us all up to the library so we could use their computers.

This took place in Australia. Everyone assumed the website was www.ten.com, but at the time it was www.ten.com.au. Also at that time, www.ten.com was a porn site. Godamn that was funny. Cracked me up hearing the librarians hurriedly telling everyone in the rows of computers not to visit that site so of course the few people who typed the correct site to begin with or found it through Google immediately went to www.ten.com to check it out because now if anyone saw them they could just claim to have gotten there via the same honest mistake as everyone else.

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lucky for them really, that has got to be the most tame porn site I’ve ever seen, literally only half of one nipple to be seen. judging from the overall vibe that was prob an error. lol

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FYI: the box is “www.wicked,com” instead of wickedmovie.com.

Edit. Oopsie. I comma’d a period. Www.wicked.com

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NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml
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bummer, It doesn’t work for me.

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ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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Oh shit. I put a comma instead of a period. Www.wicked.com

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NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml
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Oh, I’m not quite sure how I didn’t expect this. I’m already familiar with their productions. -Top shelf.

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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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I love that the article pic is apparently Elphaba and Galinda moments after reading the headline 😄

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