Salon gonna Salon. That’s a given.
But yesterday, Salon Salon’d even harder than usual with this observation about impending blockbuster “Black Panther”:
“Black Panther” is the first blockbuster-format release featuring a black hero front and center https://t.co/WVMrYmoECd
— Salon (@Salon) February 6, 2018
Dude.
ratioooooooo pic.twitter.com/FQpMJ7RHJ7
— Jim Treacher is a dumb pseudonym (@jtLOL) February 7, 2018
Check it:
If you don't count all the others, it totally is. https://t.co/NVfrj8QQSJ
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) February 7, 2018
Nope.
— Jim Treacher is a dumb pseudonym (@jtLOL) February 7, 2018
That’s not even remotely true.
— Darwin's Money (@EverydayFinance) February 7, 2018
I know people are excited about this movie for a variety of reasons but this is just patently false. Please stop. https://t.co/VfpFUClPlk
— Sweetened Beverage Recovery Fee (@jasonelevation) February 7, 2018
Who are the idiots that write and read this website
— Brady lost to foles (a backup)!! and Eli twice (@DrMosesAB) February 7, 2018
— mitrebox (@mitrebox) February 7, 2018
Beverly Hills Cop I, II, oh and III.
— godthehamster (@godthehamster) February 7, 2018
Denzel Washington is probably giving this the side-eye. Glory anyone? Book of Eli? https://t.co/lv8M8UL0Zy
— baldilocks (@JulietteAkinyi) February 7, 2018
Uh, You folks do realize that Blade was first major marvel movie, right? Every Marvel movie out before that was low budget, direct to DVD.
Also… Spawn came out a year before.
I'm seriously hoping Black Panther is great. Please don't drag it down with this nonsense.
— Shaun Maden (@MadenIndustries) February 6, 2018
Too bad there isn't a super quick and easy way to look up information. pic.twitter.com/I7WcXPOU42
— John Faltin (@johnfaltin) February 7, 2018
— Pflugerville Pfernando (@Crapplefratz) February 7, 2018
Err… pic.twitter.com/FGAaLGPRzz
— Sihle Ngobese (@SihleDLK) February 7, 2018
Blade. Independence Day. Shaft. Men in Black. Hancock. Django Unchained. https://t.co/InwIzdFLKO
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) February 7, 2018
Blade, independence Day, Wild Wild West, Bad Boys, Man on Fire, Hancock, I Am Legend, John Q… Shall I go on?
— Joshua Spieker (@Josh_Spieker) February 7, 2018
Dear @Salon: Carl Weathers would like a word. pic.twitter.com/Y40Ah0gzFl
— Jim Treacher is a dumb pseudonym (@jtLOL) February 7, 2018
BLACK PANTHER IS THE FIRST TIME A BLACK MAN HAS STARRED IN A BIG ACTION MOVIE
yeah but what about all the other ones over the decades, a lot of them were good
WHY ARE YOU A RACIST— Jim Treacher is a dumb pseudonym (@jtLOL) February 7, 2018
So you forgot about the existence of Will Smith?
— Jamie Lockett (@jlockett02) February 7, 2018
This tweet basically just erased the entire existence of Will Smith https://t.co/r3UjkNiHJI
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) February 7, 2018
— Bobby Newport (@ben0300) February 6, 2018
I’m gonna pretend like I ain’t see this tweet. pic.twitter.com/fvoxp26cwQ
— Atlanta Sports Fan (@Ramblin_Wreck13) February 7, 2018
wut pic.twitter.com/EZFLNCdn5V
— Jordan Stauber (@JordanStauber) February 7, 2018
Will Smith: “What about ID4?”
Salon Content Monkey: “Never saw it.”
WS: “Hancock?”
SCM: “Nope.”
WS: “Any of the Men in Black movies?”
SCM: “What are you talking about old man?”
WS: “I AM LEGEND? PLEASE TELL ME YOU HAVE SEEN I AM LEGEND.”
SCM: “I’m calling security."— Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) February 7, 2018
You historically illiterate MFers are going to be the death of me. https://t.co/53NMg4ZmnX
— Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) February 7, 2018
It is also, coincidentally, the first movie Salon has ever seen https://t.co/SMgnTFdPBK
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) February 7, 2018
Oof.
I have to get off Twitter for a while because I have real work to do, but no one should ever stop dunking on Salon for that stupid BLACK PANTHER tweet. Even if all the jokes have been made. Keep making them. pic.twitter.com/0GQUTUxETb
— Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) February 7, 2018
Don’t stop. EVER.
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Update:
Oh man … it took them almost a full day, but Salon finally got around to realizing they’d royally screwed up:
CORRECTION: A Feb. 7 story, “Here’s what the critics are saying about ‘Black Panther’ — it’s a ‘masterpiece,'” said that Black Panther was “the first blockbuster-format release featuring a black hero front and center.” (1/2)
— Salon (@Salon) February 7, 2018
The intention was to say that Chadwick Boseman was the first to star in a major adaptation adaptation of an iconic comics character in the current superhero-movie format. (2/2)
MORE HERE: https://t.co/lRfTGvojOI
— Salon (@Salon) February 7, 2018
That’s … really different from their original tweet. Anyone else wanna call B.S. on that excuse?
