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Fans customized the Wicked movie poster to more closely match the original Broadway poster.

Original Broadway Poster:

Movie poster:

Some fans, disappointed by the poster, altered it to be closer to the original, moving Grande’s hand and lowering the brim of Erivo’s hat to cover her eyes. The edits prompted Erivo to respond. “This is the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen

“None of this is funny. None of it is cute. It degrades me. It degrades us,” Erivo continued. “The original poster is an ILLUSTRATION. I am a real life human being, who chose to look right down the barrel of the camera to you, the viewer… because, without words we communicate with our eyes.”

So, this seems like a completely reasonable reaction to fans making fan content.

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 60 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Nerve status: Struck

As we all know snapping at the fans, especially over matters of source material accuracy, always works out well for everyone involved in the making of the adaptation.

[–] 5in1k@lemm.ee 16 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah. Metallica sued their fans 20 years ago and I still won’t listen to them on purpose and shit talk them when I hear them.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Never forget what Napster was. Someday we'll have that convenience again.

[–] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

You mean Soulseek?

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

What's that drummer douche name? Nevermind I don't care, fuck Metallica.

[–] dditty@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

Especially in the lead up to its release when you're trying to hype up the fans