With the newest installment of the Fantastic Beasts franchise, The Secrets of Dumbledore, set to come out on April 8, 2022, their team has been trying to create some buzz for the movie by announcing old and new cast members.
It was on the Fantastic Beasts official Twitter page where they were making their casting announcements. Everything was fine until they revealed who was playing Vinda Rosier.
Turns out that French-British Poppy Corby-Tuech, full name Poppy Colette Corby-Tuech, is playing Vinda in the upcoming film.
Poppy Corby-Tuech is Vinda pic.twitter.com/P0ACLAAWLI
— Fantastic Beasts (@FantasticBeasts) February 22, 2022
“Poppy Corby-Tuech is Vinda” seems like an innocent enough announcement, right? Initially, there seems to be nothing wrong with the sentence. Now try and…
Okay, now try saying it out loud ten times faster.
You may have noticed the sentence started to sound a bit funky, right? Well, the whole internet did too.
The response to this announcement included a lot of confusion and a lot of “sounds like” meme comparisons to the seemingly random mix of letters that make up these names.
that is the most aggressive british name i ever seen https://t.co/8jPRlopqiE
— Necksplitter (@Necksplitter) February 23, 2022
This could be a completely normal phrase… in Huttesse.
jabba the hutt voice https://t.co/9TCznPIzQZ
— Jürgen Backenforth (@earthmanbuck) February 22, 2022
Or maybe even in Simlish.
this is literally simlish
— cinnamon bun (@notsofiacoppola) February 22, 2022
Thanks to this announcement, we now have new lyrics to mumble when you don’t know the actual words to a song.
Is it worth it? Let me work it
I put my thing down, flip it and reverse it https://t.co/5iCzVNr3x4— Rick (@RickBetita) February 23, 2022
Maybe it was a secret spell all along.
I read this out loud and all the shit in my living room started floating. https://t.co/JrwlyLvYxM
— Leon Langford (@MasonLLL) February 22, 2022
People were also comparing this announcement to the iconic Key and Peele East/West College Bowl comedy skit.
— Peter McGladdery (@petermcgladdery) February 22, 2022
— Fernando (@fermejiag) February 22, 2022
It’s also very much giving Zendaya is Meechee vibes.
https://twitter.com/_alisha_ann/status/1496247333939515394
— find tyler huckabee on bluesky (@TylerHuckabee) February 22, 2022
Despite this franchise being a product of she who must not be named, at least we got a good laugh out of it. Thanks to the internet and the comments, we were able to confirm that our brains were in fact not lagging.
I had to read the comments to make sure I wasn't having a stroke
— Guill ✠ (@GnomoAnomo) February 23, 2022
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