{"id":85916,"date":"2022-10-03T19:34:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T19:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/billy-eichner-ripped-on-twitter-for-fuming-at-straight-people-not-coming-to-see-bros\/"},"modified":"2022-10-03T19:34:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T19:34:12","slug":"billy-eichner-ripped-on-twitter-for-fuming-at-straight-people-not-coming-to-see-bros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/billy-eichner-ripped-on-twitter-for-fuming-at-straight-people-not-coming-to-see-bros\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Eichner ripped on Twitter for fuming at ‘straight people’ not coming to see ‘Bros’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Actor Billy Eichner was mocked on Twitter for complaining that “straight people” didn’t go see his movie, while also warning “homophobes” to skip it.<\/p>\n

The comedian stars in the Judd Apatow produced LGBTQ romantic comedy, “Bros,” which tanked at the box office. The film cost $22 million to make, but only earned $4.8 million for its opening weekend, according to the Hollywood Reporter.<\/p>\n

Despite the film struggling to attract audiences, Eichner urged some people to not go see his movie.<\/p>\n

Leading up to the film’s premiere, the actor touted positive reviews of the film, along with a scornful message to those who didn’t see the film. “Sorry homophobes!” he tweeted several times<\/a>. When the movie opened he again warned “homophobes” to skip the movie.<\/p>\n

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Billy Eichner arrives at the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, Sept. 17, 2017 at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell\/Invision\/AP)
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KATHY GRIFFIN BLASTED FOR WARNING THOSE WHO DON’T WANT ‘CIVIL WAR’ TO ‘VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS’: ‘THIS IS WRONG’<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Everyone who ISN’T a homophobic weirdo should go see BROS tonight! You will have a blast tonight! And it *is* special and uniquely powerful to see this particular story on a big screen, esp for queer folks who don’t get this opportunity often. I love this movie so much. GO BROS!!!” he tweeted.<\/p>\n

At the same time, Eichner blamed “straight people” for the film’s poor box office showing.<\/p>\n

Several Twitter users ridiculed the actor for scaring away viewers and then complaining when people didn’t go see the movie.<\/p>\n

Tablet Magazine’s Noam Blum sent out a sarcastic tweet. “HAHA SUCK IT HOMOPHOBES!” he wrote, with screenshots of Eichner’s aforementioned tweets, adding afterwards, “wtf the homophobes didn’t see my movie.”<\/p>\n

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HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA – JULY 09: Seth Rogen (L) and Billy Eichner attend the World Premiere of Disney’s “THE LION KING” at the Dolby Theater on July 09, 2019 in Hollywood, California.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis aide Christina Pushaw also mocked, “‘Buy my product or else you’re a bigot.'”<\/p>\n

Conservative writer Chad Felix Greene ripped into Eichner, writing, “I guarantee 90% of Americans seeing Eichner’s headlines right now are like, ‘Wait. What movie? What are they mad at us about now?'”<\/p>\n

Rob Smith, founder and president of the Douglass Society, tweeted this was an example of “Hollywood victim liberalism.”<\/p>\n

“Billy Eichner made a big deal about ‘Bros’ having an all LGBT cast, included a joke at straight people’ expense in the trailer, and is now whining that it flopped because “homophobic” straights didn’t see it. Typical Hollywood Victim Liberalism,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t just conservatives scoffing at Eichner’s bad take. Philadelphia Magazine Editor-at-Large Ernest Owens wrote, “As a Black queer man, I can personally tell you why I didn’t go see it in the box office: Because Billy Eichner is obnoxious (and corny) as hell.”<\/p>\n

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Kristine Parks is an associate editor for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to kristine.parks@fox.com.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n