This weekend, audiences have a choice. They can go see Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga in A Star Is Born or they can watch Tom Hardy in Venom. This may seem an inconsequential decision to many, but it is actually, we are starting to realize, a matter of near cosmological importance. There is darkness or light, up or down, Venom or A Star Is Born. This is no time for fence-sitting: the universe itself watches to see which of these two films will emerge triumphant at the box office.
Lady Gaga fans are not approaching this matter lightly, assembling a phalanx of glittery shields, donning their customary raw meat armor, and spreading negative reviews of Venom on Twitter in the hopes of, uh, making more people see A Star Is Born instead.
BuzzFeed’s Rachael Krishna has issued a report from the front lines of the conflict, showing the first, horrified moments when awareness of the Gaga army’s cunning plan began to spread.
Though the opinion of a Twitter account called “Marvel Mania™” may be a bit suspect, it does appear that, as in the past, Gaga’s fans have decided to help their hero’s career through less-than-savory means, against their leader’s wishes.
Krishna received quotes from some of the fiercest warriors, including one who anonymously claimed to be part of a coordinated effort to mess with Venom’s opening weekend by creating fake accounts.