Is Netflix content  "mostly pedophilia-free" ? Netflix is catching some serious flak on social media today around their upcoming original film Cuties — most of which likely could have been avoided.

Cuties, a film from French-Senegalese director Maïmouna Doucouré, made its debut in January at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Decider was there in Park City for the screening, and our Senior Film Reporter Anna Menta filed a review of Cuties, calling it a "coming-of-age film that will speak volumes to anyone who has lived through the agonizingly confusing time that is girlhood."

Earlier this week, Netflix announced the premiere date of Cuties (September 9) and released the trailer for the film, which immediately set off a firestorm of criticism from hordes of angry keyboard warriors —most of whom, we assume, have yet to actually see the movie— who found some fresh ammunition for the culture wars. The first part of the problem arose from the language that Netflix used to describe the film on their official movie page, as well as YouTube. That language read:

    Amy, 11, becomes fascinated with a twerking dance crew. Hoping to join them, she starts to explore her femininity, defying her family's traditions.

Ever since Miley Cyrus set the world aflame in 2013 by bringing the twerking dance craze into the mainstream — putting "cultural appropriation" directly into the crosshairs of the outrage economy on both sides of the political spectrum — the word "twerking" has been a loaded term. Combining that term with the precocious age of the film's primary protagonist, an 11-year-old girl, left the rabid (and scarily thriving) QAnon community foaming at the mouth; it was the cultural equivalent of throwing red meat to Joe Exotic's menagerie of underfed tigers. The movie's TV-MA rating further incited Twitter users to accuse Netflix of making "child porn," of being run "by a bunch of pedophiles," and much worse. (We don't even want to imagine what's being said on Parlor.)

Presumably realizing that they were under fire, Net Who posted this claim? and what sort of site is it? Babylon Bee

The Babylon Bee is the world's best satire site, totally inerrant in all its truth claims. We write satire about Christian stuff, political stuff, and everyday life. So is there any evidence of netflix saying this quote on there Twitter feed? No, this never appeared on their Twitter feed
Netflix tweets that its content is "mostly pedophilia-free" in response to criticism over its streaming of "Cuties"
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Claim: Netflix tweets that its content is "mostly pedophilia-free" in response to criticism over its streaming of "Cuties"

Evidence: Is Netflix content  "mostly pedophilia-free" ? Netflix is catching some serious flak on social media today around their upcoming original film Cuties — most of which likely could have been avoided.

Cuties, a film from French-Senegalese director Maïmouna Doucouré, made its debut in January at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Decider was there in Park City for the screening, and our Senior Film Reporter Anna Menta filed a review of Cuties, calling it a "coming-of-age film that will speak volumes to anyone who has lived through the agonizingly confusing time that is girlhood."

Earlier this week, Netflix announced the premiere date of Cuties (September 9) and released the trailer for the film, which immediately set off a firestorm of criticism from hordes of angry keyboard warriors —most of whom, we assume, have yet to actually see the movie— who found some fresh ammunition for the culture wars. The first part of the problem arose from the language that Netflix used to describe the film on their official movie page, as well as YouTube. That language read:

    Amy, 11, becomes fascinated with a twerking dance crew. Hoping to join them, she starts to explore her femininity, defying her family's traditions.

Ever since Miley Cyrus set the world aflame in 2013 by bringing the twerking dance craze into the mainstream — putting "cultural appropriation" directly into the crosshairs of the outrage economy on both sides of the political spectrum — the word "twerking" has been a loaded term. Combining that term with the precocious age of the film's primary protagonist, an 11-year-old girl, left the rabid (and scarily thriving) QAnon community foaming at the mouth; it was the cultural equivalent of throwing red meat to Joe Exotic's menagerie of underfed tigers. The movie's TV-MA rating further incited Twitter users to accuse Netflix of making "child porn," of being run "by a bunch of pedophiles," and much worse. (We don't even want to imagine what's being said on Parlor.)

Presumably realizing that they were under fire, Net Who posted this claim? and what sort of site is it? Babylon Bee

The Babylon Bee is the world's best satire site, totally inerrant in all its truth claims. We write satire about Christian stuff, political stuff, and everyday life. So is there any evidence of netflix saying this quote on there Twitter feed? No, this never appeared on their Twitter feed

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Claim: Netflix tweets that its content is "mostly pedophilia-free" in response to criticism over its streaming of "Cuties"

Evidence: Is Netflix content  "mostly pedophilia-free" ? Netflix is catching some serious flak on social media today around their upcoming original film Cuties — most of which likely could have been avoided.

Cuties, a film from French-Senegalese director Maïmouna Doucouré, made its debut in January at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Decider was there in Park City for the screening, and our Senior Film Reporter Anna Menta filed a review of Cuties, calling it a "coming-of-age film that will speak volumes to anyone who has lived through the agonizingly confusing time that is girlhood."

Earlier this week, Netflix announced the premiere date of Cuties (September 9) and released the trailer for the film, which immediately set off a firestorm of criticism from hordes of angry keyboard warriors —most of whom, we assume, have yet to actually see the movie— who found some fresh ammunition for the culture wars. The first part of the problem arose from the language that Netflix used to describe the film on their official movie page, as well as YouTube. That language read:

    Amy, 11, becomes fascinated with a twerking dance crew. Hoping to join them, she starts to explore her femininity, defying her family's traditions.

Ever since Miley Cyrus set the world aflame in 2013 by bringing the twerking dance craze into the mainstream — putting "cultural appropriation" directly into the crosshairs of the outrage economy on both sides of the political spectrum — the word "twerking" has been a loaded term. Combining that term with the precocious age of the film's primary protagonist, an 11-year-old girl, left the rabid (and scarily thriving) QAnon community foaming at the mouth; it was the cultural equivalent of throwing red meat to Joe Exotic's menagerie of underfed tigers. The movie's TV-MA rating further incited Twitter users to accuse Netflix of making "child porn," of being run "by a bunch of pedophiles," and much worse. (We don't even want to imagine what's being said on Parlor.)

Presumably realizing that they were under fire, Net Who posted this claim? and what sort of site is it? Babylon Bee

The Babylon Bee is the world's best satire site, totally inerrant in all its truth claims. We write satire about Christian stuff, political stuff, and everyday life. So is there any evidence of netflix saying this quote on there Twitter feed? No, this never appeared on their Twitter feed

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