Just saw a Barbie ad here for the first time. It is starting, folks. They must already be desperate if they're buying ad space on TUMBLR.
Do not reblog official marketing or ads from struck works
including (but not remotely limited to) Barbie. They are advertising here because their actors are on strike and will not promote their products.
Barbie is not a struck work. It is okay to reblog barbie content. It's done and finished. Going to premiers for it is crossing the line. But going to the regular ass movie is not.
Read me and read me good: not seeing Barbie is a great way to show execs that we don't care about writers and actors.
Let me say that again: going to see Barbie is GOOD for the strike. Many people who WORKED on barbie are striking. They probably have not been paid yet.
The unions HAVE NOT asked us to picket the movie. Just the premier.
The original post is disinformation.
I believe it to be coming from a good place but avoiding works that are NOT being struck is genuinely harmful to the cause.
Also, the Barbie movie has been advertised on tumblr for a while now...waaaaay before the SAG-AFTRA strike was even being talked about (at least publicly). Idk if I was seeing official ads for it or if it was fan content before the writers' strike started too...
Also: actors and writers are on strike and cannot do official promotional material. Marketing and promotional professionals are not on strike and can continue to do their jobs as normal, except they cannot set up interviews/con appearances/etc for the people who are on strike. People who watch movies are not employed by the studios unless y'all have made some kind of deal no one told me about, and therefore are also not on strike and therefore cannot cross the picket line.
























