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[ManaByte]

Baby Yoda Canceled Amid Accusations of Genocide

Last week's egg-eating episode of The Mandalorian has led to a disturbance in the Force. For real.

www.vanityfair.com

“I just wanna know who thought this was a good idea. Like... 'we have this woman whose species is facing extinction and she's very protective of these her eggs.' ‘We should have Baby Yoda eat them.’ ‘Hey yay dude, bro high five’ Like what????" one Twitter user posted on Nov. 9. (Vanity Fair is excluding links to protect people from potential harassment.)


“Gosh, Baby Yoda is losing the charm,” another posted on Nov. 6. “I hated him because he ate the eggs of a lady frog and her species. IT'S AN EXTINCTION!!!!”

Another wrote: “Baby Yoda not knowing any better...genocide for sake of ‘cute humor’ is never very funny. I mean, I laughed but I felt really guilty about it.”

Another Star Wars-centric Twitter user quoted the Frog Lady herself: “'We fought too hard and suffered too much to resign ourselves to the extinction of our family line,' Frog Lady said after engineering a translator and standing up to a legendary Mandalorian. ‘But please use these eggs as the butt of your misogynistic joke.’”

“Ya know I was defending this story choice the other day because I thought it was intentionally very disturbing, not comic relief, and would hopefully have some meaning going forward. But now I'm just INCREDIBLY disgusted,” one user replied. “I'm so sorry I gave you all the benefit of the doubt.”

Twitter being Twitter, it got ugly fast—and stayed that way. Some of the counter complaints were abusive in nature. “It's fu--ing funny because they are fictional characters besides nonexistent species, so stop the drama for a f--king tv show," one user posted. "There are REALLY important things in the REAL world.”

Some of the more heartfelt concerns were raised by fans who said they were simply reminded of the real-life pain of their personal medical struggles, comparing the Frog Lady's storyline to the often difficult experience of in vitro fertilization. “As a Star Wars fan with a history of multiple miscarriages who is saving up for IVF, them playing this as a bit feels extremely gross and mean-spirited,” one user wrote.


“So, as a person who went through fertility treatments and the mother of a baby who tries to eat everything—I get the intended gag of Baby Yoda eating the eggs. My first reaction was ‘omg, it’s my child.’ But then...stop it? The story makes it clear those eggs are important,” another person posted.

The Mandalorian didn't even last two episodes into its second season before the mob went after it.

 

[Weiji]

#BabyYodaForDirectorOfPlannedParenthood

 

[Nymphae]

...expressing anger and sadness that the series would make light of something that is both a personal invasion and a potential extinction-level event.

Another wrote: “Baby Yoda not knowing any better...genocide for sake of ‘cute humor’ is never very funny. I mean, I laughed but I felt really guilty about it.”

These people are so broken

 

[Tesseract]

 

[Pimpbaa]

Jesus, someone give these cunts a joint. They need to chill the fuck out.

 

[bender]

 

[King of Foxes]

Baby Yoda Canceled Amid Accusations of Genocide

Last week's egg-eating episode of The Mandalorian has led to a disturbance in the Force. For real.

www.vanityfair.com

The Mandalorian didn't even last two episodes into its second season before the mob went after it.

 

[Stouffers]

It’s like these people were never told to “shut the fuck up” growing up.

 

[brap]

noooooooooooooooo not the heckin baby yodarino
not the lil green boi

 

[DeepEnigma]

#BabyYodaForDirectorOfPlannedParenthood

One and done.

 

[-Arcadia-]

This is why you will never have silly, un-PC fun again, unless it’s with your real life friends, or in a private chat.

 

[BigBooper]

Sometimes I wonder if we would be better off, psychologically, with a new Worldwide Total War.

 

[NecrosaroIII]

Where are people getting that this is a genocide? The lady made it clear it was her family. I'm sure there are plenty of other frog people

 

[Tesseract]

Sometimes I wonder if we would be better off, psychologically, with a new Worldwide Total War.

war is god ... ?

 

[-Arcadia-]

Sometimes I wonder if we would be better off, psychologically, with a new Worldwide Total War.

In the long run, maybe, but everyone kills everyone isn’t exactly a game of Fortnite. Particularly civil war, which this would involve. I don’t know if people understand the ramifications of asking for this. You want to avoid this until it’s the last possible place to go, because it will be an absolute nightmare.

 

[Blitzmangoman]

noooooooooooooooo not the heckin baby yodarino
not the lil green boi

"What the hell is even that?"

 

[BlackOlivesMatter]

In the long run, maybe, but everyone kills everyone isn’t exactly a game of Fortnite. Particularly civil war, which this would involve. I don’t know if people understand the ramifications of asking for this. You want to avoid this until it’s the last possible place to go, because it will be an absolute nightmare.

Nah, I've been ready for about a decade.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

Come on people, we should all join forces to sign a petition of action and then...launch it into a galaxy far far away.

 

[haxan7]

They care about eggs in a tv show but they pride themselves on slaughtering tiny humans in real life? What is this world.

 

[bender]

 

[EverybodyHatesMe]

Baby Yoda isn't even cute.

 

[brap]

Baby Yoda isn't even cute.

I can see why you have that username.

 

[bender]

Baby Yoda isn't even cute.

 

[MetalAlien]

 

[bender]

 

[Goro Majima]

omg you genocidal monster

 

[bender]

omg you genocidal monster

 

[lifa-cobex]

Nobody complained when the jawas eat that egg in season one. Or is it because it's that last of a species of the rubber puppet, gecko people?

 

[888]

Nobody complained when the jawas eat that egg in season one. Or is it because it's that last of a species of the rubber puppet, gecko people?

Not gonna lie. The egg inside made me want a Cadbury egg.

 

[bender]

It's probably because baby Yoda doesn't shit out star ship fuel. As always, Futurama did it first and better.

 

[Foamy]

but a contingent of fans on Twitter has taken the actions seriously, expressing anger and sadness

Twitter really is the worst thing to ever happen.

 

[MayauMiao]

How ironic that the cancel culture are horrid at the idea of eating eggs yet they celebrate abortion like its the 4th of July.

 

[jufonuk]

They... they do know it isn’t real?

 

[JimiNutz]

#ImaginaryAlienFrogLivesMatter

 

[eot]

Amazing how thin skinned these people are.

The solution isn't to pander to them, keep it up baby yoda.

 

[Slings and Arrows]

Cancel it

 

[GymWolf]

Baby Yoda isn't even cute.

I kinda hate you right now.

 

[lock2k]

I said it before, I'll say it again.

The solution for those fucking crybabies is mandatory living in a third world slum, deprived of money, riding four busses to get to work, etc, etc. For one year.

These motherfuckers would toughen up faster than GAFs dicks when they see Emma Roberts.

 

[GAMETA]

There's a saying in my country that is used to describe people that keep looking for petty things to be outraged about. It describes the twitter mob very well. We say these people are "Looking for hair or fur on eggs".

Well, there are no more eggs now.

 

[Teslerum]

That this thread title has any right to exist is baffling in the first place.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

Soooo how many of these people had at least one non-medically justified abortion, mmmmmm?

 

[DeafTourette]

Where are people getting that this is a genocide? The lady made it clear it was her family. I'm sure there are plenty of other frog people

Not to mention the eggs are unfertilized. Like literally... Are these folks brain damaged?!

She SAYS it in the episode that she has to take them to her husband to fertilize them.

 

[lock2k]

I always joked that eggs are the most delicious abortions ever.

Guess I'm right

 

[EarsOfASnake]

Spoiler

 

[Soodanim]

If reporters braved and scoured the depths of society for these opinions and they spouted their ridiculous opinions on TV, the people would become a laughing stock and the news stations would either be ridiculed for stupidity or for bullying/exploiting the mentally ill for cheap screen time. They’d likely lose rational viewers.

But when it’s on the internet, they concentrate a few of the worst tweets, throw 2 minutes of writing to tie the cherry picking together, then publish it and people willingly share the manufactured controversy. It’s bottom feeder behaviour by big and small outlets alike, and while people with their head screwed on will instantly dismiss it for the inane rambling it is, even here people give it more credibility than it’s worth by discussing it and letting it feed into the larger picture of outrage culture that’s amplified so easily and so well on the internet.

 

[Stouffers]

I think I saw this video on PornHub

 

[Frito_Pendejo]

Just think, these people vote.

 

[Stiflers Mom]

I think I saw this video on PornHub

That video with Sasha Grey?

 

[Birdo]

95% of Twitter content is produced by 10% of it's users.

 

[Ar¢tos]

Another one :

The Mandalorian's Baby Yoda is secretly evil | Radio Times

Baby Yoda may be the great villain of The Mandalorian - we examine the evidence to prove the Child is the Star Wars series' next baddie.

www.radiotimes.com

How long does it take for snowflakes to melt?