Barbie is a cultural phenomenon that’s breaking box office records and is set to release in Japan on August 11. Ahead of this release, the Twitter account for Barbie in Japan has released an apology to the Japanese people for its Western counterparts’ participation in the popular Barbenheimer meme.
A letter in Japanese signed by Warner Bros. Pictures of Japan posted by the official account for Barbie in Japan explained the situation. Both Barbie and Oppenheimer, the latter being a film about the creation of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Japan, have been an enormous success. They were released on the same day in the U.S., which led fans to create a meme combining the two. Some people even saw the films back-to-back, hence Barbenheimer.
