Either Disney Japan's Twitter has a pretty cruel sense of humor or some ignorant employees.
On Aug. 9, the official Japanese Twitter account for Disney tweeted out the following message to its 277,000 followers:
According to Kotaku the Japanese at the top reads "Congrats on a trifling day" before the Alice in Wonderland message.
Well, you see, Aug. 9 was also the 70th anniversary of the World War II atomic bombing of Nagasaki. In that event, according to Wikipedia, "roughly 39,000–80,000 people were killed. About half of these died immediately, while the other half suffered lingering deaths."
Not exactly a "trifling day" for the country who marked the occasion with solemn ceremonies, commemorating all of those 'unbirthdays'.
Kotaku, through translating Japanese news site My Game News Flash, points out that this isn't the only time the Twitter account has made a less-than-sensitive post.
The account posted this, reading "Enjoying your summer vacation?" last year on Aug. 15.
Aug. 15 marks the date of the Japanese surrender in World War II.
Additionally, the account posted this, reading "Giving you mid-summer sympathy" on Aug. 6.
Aug. 6 is the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, in which some 70,000-80,000 people died.
As Kotaku says:
My Game News points out that Disney Japan's Twitter account typically does not post messages like this (instead, the tweets are typically PR, introducing movies, TV shows, events or products), making these questionable tweets stand out even more. Why were these dates selected, people wondered.
Disney Japan has since apologized for the tweet and deleted it off of its account.
That's why you always get a screen shot. 
The reboot of Marvel's first family, Fantastic Four just came to theaters, but things aren't looking that good. With a mere 10% ratings score on RottenTomatoes, it's shaping up to be one of the worst movies of the year, and maybe one of the worst superhero movies ever. Currently, it's hanging around the same ratings as Elektra and Catwoman, which is not good company.
To give you any idea of how bad it is, here are 10 movies that are slightly better rated. 
Roosh V, creepy 'pick-up artist' and author of far too many books with the word 'Bang' in the title, did not meet many fans of his work over the weekend in Montreal.
He traveled to the Canadian city to hold a seminar on how guys can best try and trick girls to sleep with them. Only, the venue shut it down when they learned what the seminar entailed.
Then, it says in the MtlBlog story:
Here's where it gets good. Roosh decided to go out to a bar after his event, and that's when he had a beer pitched in his face. Then another and then yet another. The wonderful people at the bar then chased him out, yelling at him to "get the f*ck out of Montreal" but that's not where things ended. The patrons followed Roosh all the way back to where he was staying just to make sure he knew he wasn't wanted here.
After that, he had little hope of peace as Mtblog states that one of the girls who threw a drink on him posted this (although the website doesn't say where it was posted):
Karma came calling. 
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