cross-posted from: https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech/post/1559544

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.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techOPEnglish
    10·
    22 hours ago

    Sorry it was a screenshot of a screenshot I’m pretty sure. Yeah I mean, I’m not going to go and say the fan edit is a masterpiece or anything, but it’s fan content. They obviously love wicked and wanted to match the original poster.

    Getting upset at fan content is a weird take. On one hand you could see that they’re excited for your work and just ignore it, or you could do… This.

    The best part is that this is pure Steisand effect. No it would have seen the fan edit if she had just ignored it

    • WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      22 hours ago

      Yeah, be happy people are doing free adverts for the movie your in and keep your (I think understandably) bruised feelings private.