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wokeuplaughing · 10 months

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just beginning to settle for me how reflective of our culture it is that the current biggest meme online is the fact that barbie and oppenheimer coincidentally come out on the same day. barbie is a multi million dollar plot by matel both to sell more products and to increase media engagement since that's where the future is for advertising their products and oppenheimer is a dramatization of the only time nukes were ever used in war that targeted two civilian cities and killed thousands upon thousands of innocent people from the perspective of the man who developed it and viewed it as a necessary evil to end a war that was basically already over. girlbosses and bombs! isn't everyone having fun

#I feel like a kill joy but man it's so strange #I'll probably end up watching the barbie movie but it's crazy to me that no one is unsettled by how big of a deal #barbie has made itself. I can name 6 different stores that are selling barbie themed merchandise #including the one I fucking work at #it's effective marketing too because you don't even have to market the characters you just have to sell the motifs n shit #pink pink pink and the various barbie logos that everyone has been familiar with for decades #trying to avoid calling the campaign explosive because I feel like that defeats my point but yknow. it's a huge deal #the coincidence with oppenheimer has given that movie so much free advertising for a movie that has only advertised itself with cast #interviews and that huge ass film roll #idk there's just something to be said about how ironic it all is #especially with the timing of the oppenheimer movie and current world events #like on the 11th the us tried to put a nuclear submarine in guantanamo kind of current world events #increasing tensions everywhere and the us is making an ass of itself so here's a movie heralding Mr Biggest Bombs as a complex dude #oh what a long ass post to have reblogs turned off on

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