yall rn for some reason https://t.co/F3EwzZHyzl pic.twitter.com/EhefPw4gQv

— blue_axolotl64, doer of wokery (@blueaxolotl64) July 30, 2023

Background

Recently, Barbie, Oppenheimer (and Pikmin 4) released on the same day.

It turned into a big meme where people would say "Wow, Oppenheimer and Barbie are really thematically different, but I want to see BOTH of them. Isn't that wacky?" (I saw both and they were both great, would recommend )

It was the Twitter equivalent of when Animal Crossing and Doom Eternal released on the same day :

This meme carried on for a while until just last night, when Japanese users decided they had ENOUGH of Americans mocking their tragedy and retaliated

Team 1: Japan (and their white allies )

To start, the Official American Barbie movie account responded to a Barbenheimer meme:

: It's going to be a summer to remember😘💕

Japan got really mad at that, and demanded an apology. The Official Japanese Barbie Movie responded and I can't read Japanese but from the quote tweets I think it was something like this:

: Hey so Barbenheimer isn't Official and it was like super lame for the American branch to talk about Oppenheimer like he killed people and we demand an apology

Japanese twitter users added some whiny community notes to Barbie US's tweet too:

: At 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945 (Showa 20), an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima for the first time in human history. The particular nature of the damage caused by the atomic bombs is that mass destruction and mass murder occurred instantaneously and indiscriminately.

They started the hashtag "#NoBarbenheimer" to show their distaste for the meme and you can find a lot of funny seethe. Here's some highlights:

: #Barbenheimer What do you Americans who use this tag to make jokes about the atomic bomb feel when they see this image? What you guys are doing is exactly the same as this. shame on you. #Barbie #NoBarbenheimer

They post this image to go along with the caption:

>Wants to retaliate against Americans

>Accidentally makes extremely funny image that Americans will laugh at

This continues with several Japanese people making Barbie 9/11 edits:

: #Barbenheimer #NoBarbenheimer How do you think? This is what you guys are doing. あなたたちがやっているのはこういうことです

: Hey American, how do you feel?

: It's Barbenheimer time!

: Can you do the same for Auschwitz victims or 911 survivor? #NoBarbenheimer

And here's one of Barbie commiting a school shooting or something idrk

They started long posting in the quote tweets of the American Barbie account too:

: The majority of Japanese are disgusted and angry against #Barbenheimer that is joking about the atomic bombs that killed 200,000 people at least. https://x.com/barbiethemovie/status/1682208852874526723?s=46&t=0d3rAKbcmJ8TvHLxlKGyuw… Personally, I don't care and it's just another freedom of expression. People criticizing it also are. However, if they can't do the same in the Holocaust or 911, it is a double standard for sure. And if somebody did those, I assume that they would immediately cancel the one who did that. Political correctness or diversity or whatsoever they claim is that level of hypocrisy. FYI, the Japanese Barbie account officially announced that #Barbenheimer is not official and claims that the response to the movement by the USA headquarters is lacking consideration and is extremely regrettable. They are apologizing to people who felt uncomfortable and are demanding the USA headquarters to appropriate response.

In typical white lady fashion, once they found out that even one person was made uncomfy by something, all jokes about it must cease probably because they love the chance to be morally righteous

The Japanese really got their breakthrough into American Twitter with this tweet:

: Scene from Barefoot Gen (1983) where it shows the effects of the Nuclear Bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima on 1945.

It's from an animal showing the effects of the bombing and its at over 110k likes on Twitter and people decided that maybe bombs are not all fun and games

Team 2: African Americans

Before we can get started, you need to know about LegoMe_TheOG a 14 year old black kid who's really good at Lego animations and even animated the Lego section of Across the Spiderverse (great movie BTW ) he has been Twitter's star for a bit because his work is really impressive and he is also 14.

He jumped in on the Barbenheimer trend and even made an animation about it (very impressive stuff I think).

Terminal Reposter DiscussingFilm uploads LegoMe_TheOG's Barbenheimer render to his account (LegoMe_TheOG only got 35k likes and DF got near 90k )

The post did great for 7 days until Japan unleashed their attack yesterday:

: #NoBarbenheimer

There were more mad posts but Twitter sorts stuff weird and I don't feel like digging

Black Twitter caught wind that their golden child was under attack, and as far as they knew, Japan only started hating the meme when he posted very suspicious...

: yall rn for some reason

: The reason is anti-blackness. Next

: Crazy how once a 14 year old kid participates in the meme, SUDDENLY it's insensitive and inappropriate Y'all are snakes, every last one of you

: as soon as the black child prodigy hops on a meme yall suddenly get off barbenheimers meat and dont fricking argue about them "not knowing the wrath of the bomb" because you clearly havent even watched oppenheimer which delivers that fricking message in a powerful way

: Why is it that everyone and their mothers' has a problem with Barbenheimer once a talented black animator takes part in the meme?

There's a lot of copers in the replies like

nooooo it's not racism we all just turned on the meme when the black kid did it coincidentally

Conclusion

That was my post I hope you liked it

Who do you side with in the war? Which Barbie 9/11 edit was your favorite? Talk in the comments below!

(Heh, and if you didn't like my post... you better watch your back ...)