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
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    16 hours ago

    The edit looks ridiculous, how is it better?

    I’m not mixing this up right?

    The first picture with the red lipstick is the fan made photo?

    where you can’t see half her face?

    that is fucking weird.

    The original looks so much better.

    what are you talking about there’s no emotions on her face?

    in the fan edit they took away half her face!

    this is crazy that people like the fan edit, It’s like if you cut an origami crane in half, drew a smiley face on it with a Sharpie and you were like “yeah that’s better.”

    • Mango@lemmy.world
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      49 minutes ago

      Imagine there was a live action Bleach remake where the actor bullied their way into having Ichigo’s sword green and freaked out at fans when they edited it to make it look right. Then your dumbass comes in acting like everyone is wrong and the remake isn’t actual garbage.

      It’s like you don’t have a single gram of artistic vision or social awareness behind your eyes.

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        29 minutes ago

        what a terribly irrelevant analogy you’ve left on the floor:

        “Imagine there was a live action Bleach remake where the actor bullied their way into having Ichigo’s sword green and freaked out at fans when they edited it to make it look right”

        completely unrelated to the current situation.

        Cynthia hasn’t even asked the fan to revert their art.

        not at all the same thing.

        your actor is a bullying asshole demanding people do what they say and change the art direction of the production according to their preferences.

        Cynthia has been erased from the official art of her production and would like people to know that being erased from art featuring her is offensive and hurts her feelings.

        she is not making demands, she is expressing her valid feelings.

        It’s selfish, shameful and offensive for anyone, including you, to disrespect and dismiss the feelings of others.

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          8 minutes ago

          Are you completely retarded? She’s an actress. She’s supposed to portray the artwork, not herself. She’s the bullying asshole trying to self insert.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techOP
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      7 hours ago

      That was never the point. I’m not commenting on if it’s better or not. Her reaction to something a fan made is what we’re all talking about.