Warner Bros. Japan apologizes after the U.S. Twitter account for the movie promotes posts that appear to make light of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Understandable really.
I do miss the time we could joke about something in a faraway land, and by the time it reached them many months later by word of mouth it would have mutated into something more culturally acceptable. We should never have invented the printing press.
Punching down? It was intended to be a relatively tame joke about the world have been small for quite a while, and pre-emptively make light of those who would think this “being too easily offended” is a relatively new thing. Im sorry if I failed to communicate this correctly.
They’re just sore losers.
I am not japanese BUT I am pissed off by this such shitty, forced fun joke that you have to follow to show you are IN. A TheVerge level joke from weak, white guys and gals.
“OK Boomer” “Ice bucket challenge” and so many dumb, silly trend.
I give them permission to make one 9/11 joke.
My apology on this matter is scheduled for the same press conference where Japan apologizes for what Imperial Japan did.
They’re in it too deep now. It’d be weird to suddenly apologize for events that happened 80 years ago, even though they should.
Apparently they already did; the article doesn’t include an image but in my imagination it’s hilarious.
Twitter user @mankodaisuki58 replied to the apology with a picture of Barbie sitting on the shoulders of Osama Bin Laden in front of burning buildings in the same style as one of the original posts. It is captioned “visiting the places from movie scenes” in Japanese and “It’s going to be a summer to remember” in English.