In the world of TV and film, there are goofs that slip past editors and make it to the final cut, like a coffee cup in Game of Thrones.
And then there's this.
In a promo for Wrestlemania 39, viewers noticed a major editing flub in a video hyping the much-anticipated match between WWE veteran Rey Mysterio and his son Dominik.
In the video, a visibly angry and fueled Dominik—who served a very brief time in jail for attacking his father Rey on Christmas—raged:
"You think this is a game to me? I served hard time, and I survived."
"Prison changes a man."
The video is laced with various flashes of prison photos: barbed wire, cells, etc...
But some viewers noticed one of the photos was of Auschwitz, the infamous concentration camp used by Nazis for mass extermination.
Poor oversight is an understatement.
You can see the promo below.
\u201cwwe saw the accidental auschwitz and edited it FAST\u201d— forever botchamania (@forever botchamania) 1680455714
Those who recognized the image took to Twitter and called out WWE.
\u201c@WWE @DomMysterio35 @reymysterio @peacock @WWENetwork I'm sure it's not intentional, but as an FYI, Dom's promo package used a picture of Auschwitz. You may want to get that fixed ASAP.\u201d— WWE (@WWE) 1680344101
\u201cWWE used an image of Auschwitz in a video package about Dom Mysterio doing "hard time" \ud83d\ude2c\ud83d\ude2c\ud83d\ude2c\u201d— Dan Weiner (Parity) (@Dan Weiner (Parity)) 1680390282
\u201c@AaronWrotkowski i know this is definitely an accident but\n\noof\n\nouch\n\ncringo\u201d— Aaron Wrotkowski (@Aaron Wrotkowski) 1680394155
\u201c@AaronWrotkowski Yup, that's Auschwitz... :/\u201d— Aaron Wrotkowski (@Aaron Wrotkowski) 1680394155
\u201cSomeone in the WWE tried to find prison footage for Dominik Mysterio's "hard time" video and ended up using footage of what I'm pretty sure is the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. It ran during the WrestleMania kickoff.\u201d— Aaron Wrotkowski (@Aaron Wrotkowski) 1680394155
\u201ci most certainly didn\u2019t have \u201cwwe accidentally showing auschwitz b-roll stock footage thinking it was a random prison\u201d on my bingo card this year\u201d— \u064bconner (@\u064bconner) 1680393151
\u201c@Maffewgregg Someone got fired\u201d— forever botchamania (@forever botchamania) 1680455714
\u201cWow wwe showed auschwitz in the domanic entrance that horrible\u201d— gleas #TeamB42 (@gleas #TeamB42) 1680403381
\u201cThe WWE intern who used Auschwitz shot for a video package sweating bullets right now \ud83d\udc80\n#Wrestlemania \n#WWEHallOfFame\u201d— GV1GV1GV1GV1 (@GV1GV1GV1GV1) 1680392666
WWE has yet to comment, but by the time the promo hit the main show the image was removed from the video.
Still... not soon enough.
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