On Friday evening, The Emoji Movie’s Twitter account posted an image of one of the film’s many expressive characters dressed as a handmaid from the Hulu adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale. Some three days later, the Tweet was deleted.
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Meanwhile, sources are telling me the social team behind The Emoji Movie has scrapped plans to replace all the women on the Glow poster with the poop emoji.
DISCUSSION
I kinda wish they’d kept The Handmaid’s Tale one. I doubt the Venn diagram of Emoji Movie viewers and Handmaid’s Tale viewers involves a ton of overlap, and I feel like Emoji movie viewers could probably benefit from a little Handmaid’s Tale...