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#StarringJohnCho
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About
#StarringJohnCho is a photoshop meme featuring various movie posters edited with actor John Cho added to the cast, which is aimed at promoting the casting of Asian and Asian-American actors for lead roles in Hollywood films.
Origin
On April 28th, 2016, the @StarringJohnCho[1] Twitter feed was launched, which posted a photoshopped poster for the 2012 superhero film The Avengers with Cho's face superimposed on to Captain America (shown below).
Spread
On May 5th, 2016, StarringJohnCho.com[5] was launched to promote the photoshop meme and Asian diversity in film.
The following day, the @Fusion Twitter feed posted a video about the Twitter hashtag and photoshop meme.
On May 7th, actor Ki Hong Lee retweeted the hashtag along with an article about the photoshop meme (shown below, left).[3] The following day, Redditor TheWallClock submitted a post about #StarringJohnCho to the /r/AsianMasculinity[2] subreddit, highlighting several notable photoshop examples. On May 9th, Cho posted a heart emoji in a tweet directed toward the @StarringJohnCho feed (shown below, right).[4]
In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the photoshop meme, including Refinery 29,[6] The Hollywood Reporter,[7] Jezebel,[8] The New York Times[9] and CNN.[10]
Various Examples
Search Interest
External References
[1] Twitter – @StarringJohnCho
[2] Reddit – #StarringJohnCho
[3] Twitter – @kihonglee
[4] Twitter – @JohnTheCho
[5] StarringJohnCho.com – #StarringJohnCho
[6] Refinery 29 – John Cho Stars in Every Movie Ever
[7] Hollywood Reporter – #StarringJohnCho Flips Hollywood Whitewashing
[8] Jezebel – Every Movie is Now #StarringJohnCho
[9] The New York Times – John Cho Starring in Every Movie Ever Made?
[10] CNN – Twitter meme has John Cho starring in ALL the movies
Top Comments
Nedhitis
May 11, 2016 at 05:33PM EDT
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