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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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[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 30 points 4 days ago

Totally proportionate reaction.

[-] madcaesar@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Yup, not psycho at all.

[-] rothaine@beehaw.org 27 points 4 days ago

In the original Broadway poster and the fan edit, it looks like they're up to something--there's some mischievousness at play, some wickedness.

I don't really know what the full-face one is supposed to convey.

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 28 points 4 days ago

I read the text before the post title and thought it was some witchymemes joke rant about people stereotyping witches which would have been kinda funny. A shame that she's serious.

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[-] Banichan@dormi.zone 34 points 4 days ago

Fans did a service on that one

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

...when the actual wounded party (if any could really be found) would be the photographer and/or the graphic artist who produced the image. The model had no idea or say in how their image would ultimately be used. No doubt dozens of images were taken probably some with brim down. It's not up to the model to decide how the images are used.

[-] realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club 22 points 4 days ago

One thing I've noticed over time is that people in Hollywood are pretty normal.

/s

[-] bigbrowncommie69@hexbear.net 21 points 4 days ago

Yeah unless there's any black women who want to educate us on the reality that black women have been historically had their eyes erased or something, this is just fucking weird.

They didn't even like try to edit her to make her "more white" or something, like in terms of her facial features.

Sometimes people are seriously just oversensitive and looking for enemies where there are none.

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