Warner Bros has apologised for replying to tweets about Barbie and Oppenheimer that used the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as the background for jokes.
The hashtag #NoBarbenheimer began trending in Japan over the weekend, with hundreds of posts taking memes to task for making light of the atomic bombings and criticising an official Barbie film Twitter account for engaging with them.
There is no need to come to Japan.
There is no need to release films in Japan.
Did your mother teach you that it is ok to discriminate and laugh at war victims? Or did God teach you that?#NoBarbenheimer pic.twitter.com/yumhhhKB30
— 桐生らいらぷす (@Laelaps_jp) July 31, 2023
Japan has never come clean as the Germans have with their record of atrocity in WW II.
