Cynthia Erivo has seen the internet Bad memes, and she’s not a fan.

On Wednesday (October 16), the singer-actress aired a few of the viral edits from the upcoming film’s new poster, which sees Erivo staring at the camera while costar Ariana Grande whispers in her ear in a reinterpretation of the original Broadway poster for the Bad musical. However, when the new poster was released earlier this month, some fans were unhappy that it wasn’t a more exact reproduction, leading to people editing the new poster to look more like the original – but Erivo won’t allow this. fly.

“This is the wildest, most offensive thing I have ever seen,” said the artist whose album Ch. 1 vs 1 peaked at number 77 on the Top Album Sales chart in 2021 and shared one of the edits on her Instagram Story. “The original poster is an ILLUSTRATION. I am a real human being who has chosen to look straight down the barrel of the camera at you, the viewer… because we communicate without words with our eyes.”

“Our poster is a tribute and not an imitation. Editing my face and hiding my eyes is erasing me,” she continued. “And that is just very painful.”

Erivo added that the mounted posters were “equal to that awful Ai of us fighting” – referring to a viral AI-generated video that showed a fight between the EGOT winner and “Yes, And?” animates. singer who uses their likenesses on the movie poster – and “similar to” a meme from the past that makes fun of the color of her famous green-skinned character’s genitals. “None of this is funny,” she wrote. “It’s not cute at all. It degrades me. It degrades us.”

The Pinocchio star plays Elphaba – aka the Wicked Witch of the West – in the upcoming film duology, the first part of which hits theaters on November 22. Grande stars as Glinda the Good Witch, with Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Yeoh, Jonathan Bailey, Bowen Yang and Ethan Slater rounding out the cast.

After saying her piece about the edits, Erivo shared the Bad the film’s actual poster on her Story to “cleanse your palette,” she told viewers. About three hours later, Grande also shared the poster on her own Story.

See the official artwork below.