Disney’s Legal Terms For Star Wars Day Hashtag Piss Off Fans

B. Simmons April 30, 2020 in Movies Tagged Disney+, MayThe4th, star wars, Twitter - 1 Minute

Are you really surprised anymore?

So Star Wars Episode IX is hitting Disney+ this May 4th. Which just so happens to be Star Wars Day. And in celebration of that, Disney asked fans to share their Star Wars memories alongside the hashtag #MayThe4th. Seems normal enough, right?

Celebrate the Saga! Reply with your favorite #StarWars memory and you may see it somewhere special on #MayThe4th.
— Disney+ (@DisneyPlus) April 27, 2020

At least it was, until they tweeted this out:

By sharing your message with us using #MayThe4th, you agree to our use of the message and your account name in all media and our terms of use here: https://t.co/G0AyToufQ5
— Disney+ (@DisneyPlus) April 27, 2020

Which, predictably, earned them immediate derision. And so, for your perusal, some of my favorite responses:

https://t.co/KpBCXtu5xu pic.twitter.com/yFJ7NXr6cG
— CoffeeBird ☕️🐦 (@Kithrak_) April 27, 2020

🤔😂 #MayThe4th pic.twitter.com/mwx7LSCbaI
— 🎬📺 Darth Sean 🎮🖖🏼 (@darthsean85) April 27, 2020

Oh, hey, look: another sci-fi franchise ruined by J.J. and friends.

pic.twitter.com/5MTxOH1sSc
— tripplejaz (@tripplejaz) April 27, 2020

The Empire Strikes Back!*

*With intrusive & abusive terms of service.
— David Rothschild 🌻 (@DavMicRot) April 27, 2020

https://twitter.com/Bladebeak/status/1254832652969967620

New hashtag #MayTheSchwartz pic.twitter.com/CoegP9cv3d
— Daniel Rodriguez (@Daniel3PO) April 27, 2020

https://twitter.com/Sharkface_TF2/status/1254885335592390656

Ah yes, classic Disney, just like when they tried to own a mexican holiday #MayThe4th pic.twitter.com/q9ssbXtJ1X
— Felipe Caro R. (@Felipichin4) April 28, 2020

Disney lawyers: pic.twitter.com/c7mKqqd9b1
— BENIS (@kanokaclubyt) April 27, 2020

…and so on and so on. To be fair to Disney+, they did clarify that the massively restrictive legal document they linked to only applied to hashtagged tweets in the thread related to the first tweet asking for Star Wars memories.

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The above legal language applies ONLY to replies to this tweet using #MayThe4th and mentioning @DisneyPlus. These replies may appear in something special on May the 4th!
— Disney+ (@DisneyPlus) April 27, 2020

Of course that took them a good five hours. And in that amount of time, they were sent a number of tweets much like this one:

https://twitter.com/Xarlable/status/1254832022335488001

Ahhh, classic internet move, there. Hilarious.

Source: ComicBook.com

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