Others called them stupid and unforgivable, and urged for a boycott of the movie. One critical posting said many victims who perished under the mushroom clouds were children the same age of those playing with Barbie dolls and that the memes were inconsiderate. Japan said in a statement posted on X, formerly Twitter. “We apologize to those who felt uncomfortable because of these inconsiderable reactions," Warner Bros. In Japan, the only country to have suffered atomic attacks, the posts drew criticism for what was perceived as belittling remarks about the nuclear attacks, triggering angry messages and trending on social media with the hashtag #NoBarbenheimer. Responding to another Barbenheimer meme showing Robbie’s hair replaced with an apparent mushroom cloud, the account commented, “This Ken is a stylist,” referring to Barbie’s boyfriend. The official Barbie account said in response to the combined Barbenheimer meme: “It’s going to be a summer to remember.” Some of the images, which were not created by Warner Bros., showed Margot Robbie, who played Barbie, sitting on the shoulders of Oppenheimer, played by Cillian Murphy, with an orange inferno of an atomic blast in the background. The movie about the world-famous doll and Universal Pictures' Oppenheimer, a biography of Robert Oppenheimer, who helped develop the weapon, were both released on July 21 in the United States, sparking the Barbenheimer craze for watching both and prompting memes combining the two. The memes triggered criticisms in Japan for what many described as minimizing the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. parent company’s reaction to social media posts about the “Barbenheimer” blitz that combined images of Barbie and a mushroom cloud. movie “Barbie” has apologized for its U.S. TOKYO – The Japanese distributor of the Warner Bros.
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