This month marks 78 years since nuclear bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, so memes combining mushrooms clouds and Margot Robbie aren’t going down so well.
The double dose of American movie hits known as “Barbenheimer” is fuelling a social-media backlash in Japan , the only country to have experienced nuclear-weapon attacks.
The memes combining Oppenheimer , a biography of the inventor of the atomic bomb, and Barbie , a comedy about the fashion doll, have been trending on X , formerly known as Twitter .
Japanese users, who were already embracing the “#NoBarbenheimer” hashtag, were provoked further when the United States account for the Barbie film chimed in with a post saying: “It’s going to be a summer to remember.”
August 6 and August 9 will mark 78 years since the bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
