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.

  • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    111·
    15 days ago

    nobody said the photo was an attack.

    you’re getting confused.

    go back and read from the beginning, slowly, and maybe you’ll understand the point this time.

    “It’s a mild retouching of a photo.”

    It’s an erasure of her face and deliberate expression, and that is not as important as all of you criticizing her for expressing herself, for letting people know how she feels.

    she isn’t attacking anyone, like all of you are.

    she isn’t demanding change, like all of you are.

    she is expressing her own feelings, and that makes many of you upset.

    try to figure out why that is.