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Cynthia Erivo's Wicked Poster Controversy example

Cynthia Erivo's Wicked Poster Controversy

Updated Oct 17, 2024 at 02:54PM EDT by Mateus.

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Overview

Cynthia Erivo's Wicked Poster Controversy refers to a series of critics and backlash of fan-made posters highlighting the 2024 Wicked film main stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, which is a remake of the well-known Broadway play poster showing Glinda whispering in Elphaba's ear. Erivo criticized the AI videos of the Wicked poster and jokes about her character's genital color from the "Is Your P Green?" fandom meme, via Instagram stories in October 2024, which sparked even more memes and photoshopped versions of the Wicked poster.

Background

On October 9th, 2024, the official X[1] account of the Wicked film posted a recreated version of the memorable stage musical poster (seen below), which amassed more than 19,000 likes and 5,400 reposts in a week.


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Shortly after the poster was shared on social media, several netizens started to upload edited versions of the promotional image, casting a shadow across Erivo’s eyes and editing her green lips to have a similar red lipstick as the original Broadway play illustration. For example, X[2] user @re_jah00 posted on October 9th, 2024, an edited version of the Wicked poster (seen below), amassing more than 11,000 likes and 209 reposts in a week.


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Developments

Cynthia Erivo's Wicked Poster Critic

On October 16th, 2024, English actress Cynthia Erivo reacted via Instagram stories to the Wicked film fan-edit posters, AI memes and other jokes about her character, writing that “Our poster is an homage not an imitation, to edit my face and hide my eyes is to erase me. And that is just deeply hurtful.” Her post was later shared on X[3] by @PopCrave, which amassed more than 20 million views and 25,000 likes in a day.


This is the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen, equal to that awful Ai of us fighting, equal to people posing the question "is your ***** green" None of this is funny None of it is cute It degrades me It degrades us The original poster is an ILLUSTRATION. I am a real life human being, who chose to to look right down the barrel of the camera to you, the viewer...because, without words we communicate with our eyes. Our poster is an homage not an imitation, to edit my face and hide my eyes is to erase me. And that is just deeply hurtful. cynthiaerivo 12 m Voir la traduction > Let me put this right here, to remind you and cleanse your palette TELL EVERYONE WICKED @wickedmexicofans POP CRAVE @cynthiaerivo and arianagrande Х

Online Reactions

Erivo's critics of the Wicked poster memes and jokes spawned even more content online mocking her. For example, on October 16th, 2024, X[4] page @infocharlixcx posted a photo of Charli XCX and Ariana Grande edited like the Wicked poster (seen below), to which Cynthia commented on the image on Instagram writing "wow." The post amassed over 16,000 likes and 561 reposts in a day.


cynthiaerivo❤ Wow..... Reply View 59 more replies 9.223

On October 16th, 2024, X[5] user @2DEC0DE posted several screenshots from alleged tweets made by Cynthia Erivo on her "burner account." The post (seen below) amassed over 63,000 likes and 2,200 reposts in a day.


matt @idropulsar⚫3h cynthia erivo looking right down the barrel of thecamera to you, the viewer 27 2 山 175 Cynthia Erivo @ErivoCynth8303.2h Are you kidding me? First you erase my eyes, now you replace me with a unknown white woman? Q1 22 ill 39 + Steph Anie @mynerdyhome. 4h Awe ...I was actually looking forward to WICKED because I'm a huge fan of the Broadway show- and then I read this. No one is degrading the actress- they're merely mirroring the most iconic art from one of the most successful and most loved Broadway shows. As the actress who Show more Fan Edit of 'Wicked' Poster: 'Wildest, Most Offensive Thing I Have Seen' "It degrades me. It degrades us," the actress writes The original poster is an ILLUSTRATION I am a real life human being, who chose to to look right down the barrel of the camera to you, the viewer because, without words we communicate with our eyes. Our poster is an homage not an imitation, to edit my face and hide my eyes is to erase me And that is put deeply hurtful 87 140 527 ill 19K Jack @Jack1147111.2h Cynthia Erivo is her name. Retardation is her game. t|| 336 Cynthia Erivo @ErivoCynth8303.1h Excuse you? 92 22 ill 44 toeknee @tonypraysick - 4h cynthia erivo saying that a slightly redesigned wicked poster is the wildest and most offensive thing she's seen 0:02 From The Memes Archive От 13 82 Cynthia Erivo @ErivoCynth8303 JMZ A- 1.4K 35K I Follow Because it is. I have never seen so much hatred towards a black woman that hey hide half her face. I worked my butt off to bring people the best Wicked remake and I get treated like trash. andthatwastheworstpart @suburbanta....th surely there has to be something else going on in her personal life that's making her react this way, no way did she write a paragraph on a Wednesday morning over a fan edit of a movie poster GIF ALT 27 2 151 Cynthia Erivo @ErivoCynth8303 1h Of course I am going to weigh in on something so hurtful to me. To erase my eyes because you want me to be something I'm not? And you have the nerve to say something is going on with ME? 山 15 27

Various Examples


michael @honeymunes Follow going to the store y'all want anything (picture included so as to not erase Cynthia Erivo) 2:22 PM Oct 16, 2024 X Osirsaltine?

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External References

[1] X – wickedmovie

[2] X – re_jah00

[3] X – PopCrave

[4] X – infocharlixcx

[5] X – 2DEC0DE

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