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@appleheadheaven Lady in my life

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This is the most androgynous anyone has ever looked.

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@michaelmovie Only The King could do that

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The fatigue is real.

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🚨 UPDATE: 8 people charged in Sex Ring “Underground Bunker” for Paying adults to Rape their Children and Pets — Ages 3-16. Trial delayed as mom pleads guilty and flips on co-defendants

In Bibb County, Alabama, eight suspects ran a sex trafficking ring out of an underground bunker where children as young as 3 were drugged, bound, and raped with adults paying to abuse them.

Animals were also targeted.

Rebecca Brewer and mother of some of the victims, pleaded guilty to sexual torture and nine counts of first-degree kidnapping. As part of the deal she agreed to testify against the other seven defendants.

The trial for the remaining suspects has been delayed while the case expands, including a federal investigation into at least one of them.

These monsters turned their own kids and pets into victims for profit.

How long will it take for every last one of them to face real justice?

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@DamonReynold Small dick energy tweet

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@SUSU745573838 What are you talking about.

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@Lumis_digital Breaking records, even after death. I KNOW THEY MAD😂. #MichaelJackson #Goat

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When you understand how this played out, you will appreciate this number even more.

No major studio wanted to touch this film. None. Every single one of them passed. Too much controversy, too much risk, too many allegations attached to the name. Lionsgate said yes anyway, spent $155 million, and just became a completely different company.

$898 million worldwide. Biggest opening weekend in biopic history. They beat Hunger Games. They beat Twilight. They are chasing Bohemian Rhapsody's all-time biopic record and will probably catch it before Japan even opens.

Now let's talk about what this actually means for everyone involved.

The Jackson family

Their estate co-produced this film. They did not just approve it, they are on the revenue side of one of the most profitable biopics ever made. Michael's nephew Jaafar plays him. His grandmother Katherine said Jaafar embodied Michael completely. The family is winning financially and emotionally.

But the film erases the abuse allegations entirely. No Jordan Chandler. No Wade Robson. No James Safechuck. Nothing from Leaving Neverland. A new lawsuit from a family alleging four siblings were abused dropped right around the film's release. The box office does not make that disappear. If anything, $898 million means more people are now watching a version of Michael Jackson's life with that entire chapter cut out.

The Oscars

It is probably not winning Best Picture and most industry insiders know it. The awards conversation got complicated fast. Critics pointed to flat storytelling, inconsistent makeup, and the obvious problem that the estate co-produced a film about the estate's subject, which makes the omission of the allegations look less like a creative choice and more like a condition.

The comparison people keep making is Elvis. That film completely skipped the fact that Presley started pursuing Priscilla when she was 14. It still got eight Oscar nominations. Bohemian Rhapsody downplayed Freddie Mercury's sexuality and won four Oscars. So Hollywood has a pattern of rewarding sanitised biopics. The question is whether the Jackson allegations sit in a different category. Based on the current awards conversation, the industry seems to think they do. Jaafar's performance might get a nomination nod. The film itself is unlikely to go far.

The Black community

This is the most layered part of the conversation.

Michael Jackson is not simply a pop star to Black audiences. He is a cultural landmark. A Black man who crossed every barrier that was supposed to stop him and became the most famous entertainer who ever lived. The way the 1993 allegations were handled, the way his changing appearance was mocked instead of examined with any compassion, the way Leaving Neverland was received with an immediacy that many Black audiences felt was applied differently than it would have been for a white artist, all of that is part of how this film is being experienced.

The $898 million is being read as vindication. The world loved him. His nephew carrying his image with dignity was worth seeing. Repeat viewings are driving the box office significantly, and a large portion of those are Black audiences who grew up with this music treating the cinema like a reunion with something that shaped their entire sense of what Black excellence could look like.

What $898 million actually tells us is this: Michael Jackson's gravity is so powerful that nearly two decades after his death, at the centre of one of the most documented controversies in entertainment history, a film about his life broke records that superhero franchises and dystopian blockbusters never touched.

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@tlcforthepyts I mean do you blame him?🥵

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@KellyCraytor1 @Ishita_Sharma42 Your average pizza at a pizza shop has too much grease.

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@MorningBrew Because of MICHAEL !

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@xAmazingLucasx @TMZ Always them

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🚨 THIS IS THE REAL KARMELO - He’s a good kid, comes from a two parent home, A+ Student, 2 jobs, and carried himself like a gentleman.

White people will NEVER show this on their page !

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@RiderHyderabadi @xAmazingLucasx @SaltyGirl09 Haha you showed your racist ass at the end of your statement. Y’all just can’t help yourself🤣

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@BiffSport @xAmazingLucasx Just by this comment alone, I can tell you’re an incel.

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Are we surprised tho?? This is why no one cares about critic reviews. And F**k Netflix @netflix #MichaelJackson #cancelnetflix #netflx #MJ

[Cris @cris_rys7]

Well well well…the conspiracy continues.
Where is the fact-checking dear critics?

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@WilliamT4479 @PoliceThePolic1 This you?

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@Cyberscaperpg @xAmazingLucasx @CourtTV Well DUH,that’s what you do when it’s self-defense