The money spent promoting the Wicked movie has now reached $37 trillion, surpassing the United States national debt of $36 trillion.
According to the website, ‘Wicked Budget vs Nation Debt Tracker Dot Com’, the Wicked PR budget has inflated dramatically in the run-up to the film’s release and has finally soared past the amount of money the US government owes lenders. Defying gravity indeed.
Fearing economic collapse future president Donald Trump has already announced plans to help bring the Wicked budget back down to a manageable amount by committing $30 trillion in bitcoin to help quell the surge. Wicked smart.
Building on the ‘nuclear-pink’ marketing model established by Barbenheimer, the Wicked movie has dominated pop culture coverage ever since it was announced one thousand years ago with many lavish marketing stunts catching people’s attention.
One such stunt involved purchasing the territory of Guam and painting one side of the island pink and the other side green despite protests from environmentalists.
Another involved a Wicked-themed pop-up petting zoo in Times Square in which “real flying monkeys” turned out to be just regular monkeys thrown out of a sixth-storey window.
Other mishaps included a Wicked doll which directed children to log into a porn site and a porn site that directed adults to buy Wicked dolls.
Additionally, a breathless and emotional press tour involved the film’s stars weeping and fawning over one another in what many fans have said was, “Not what I expected from Jeff Goldblum and Peter Dinklage.”
All these events and their accompanying lawsuits mean that the Wicked marketing budget has a GDP large enough to be officially recognized as its own nation. With its capital of ‘the Emerald City’ on the island formerly known as Guam, Wickedmarketingbudgetia (Oz for short) will be the first film advertising campaign to hold a seat on the UN.
The film financiers hope that through nationhood, various tax prohibitions will be negligible, paving the way for a full-scale invasion of Australia when the time comes to promote Wicked Part II.
Wicked (the movie), starring Ariana Grande and others is out in all good cinemas now.
