• Mossy Feathers (They/Them)
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      2511 months ago

      I’m pretty sure barbenheimer was astroturfed to shit as well. The memes and content people were making didn’t feel anywhere near as natural as the Doom x Animal Crossing stuff did. That trend felt legitimately homemade whereas anything similar that’s come after it has felt incredibly forced.

      • @ehrenschwan@feddit.de
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        711 months ago

        Yess, my theory as well. Either planned out from the beginning or after a few memes came up heavily fueled by both studios.

        • @variants
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          211 months ago

          But honestly I didn’t even know about barbenheimer until after we watched Oppenheimer and already planned to watch Barbie. I think the only ‘phenomenon’ was that there were two good movies out at the same time that weren’t super hero movies

    • @conno02@lemmy.world
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      110 months ago

      i’m still chill with it. what’s the harm? it’s not like anybody cares the second time anyway

  • @MyFairJulia@lemmy.world
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    1011 months ago

    I mean yay for counter-programming and turning into an event or smth but i doubt that many people of the Paw Patrol target audience could go watch Saw.