Disney now says those Snow White photos are simply "not official" [Updated]
The photos that sparked conservative backlash were initially shared by British tabloid Daily Mail
[Update July 14 6:35 pm]: After initially telling The Daily Beast that the Snow White set photos were fake, a spokesperson now says that the photos are in fact from the production, but are not official photos. We regret the error (and, in our mind, they still look pretty fake). The following story has been updated to reflect this fact.
People who love to be mad and loud on the internet really do just jump at any possible opportunity to get really mad and really loud—even opportunities that are very clearly produced with that exact purpose in mind.
Case in point: if you saw Rachel Zegler trending on Twitter today, you might have been surprised to pull up an “exclusive” set photo of the actress from Disney’s upcoming Snow White remake. Zegler’s casting already sparked a limited but loud backlash from a handful of people opposed to the casting of a Latina Snow White. But the mixed race and gender group of dwarves also sparked fresh backlash from Twitter users like Libs of TikTok and right-wing commentator Matt Walsh, who threw little temper tantrums.