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 1 year 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@possumpat.io 1 year 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