By Monique
I did not see Lifetime’s Aaliyah movie, produced by Wendy Williams, who took up the helm after Zendaya left the project and it seemed like Lifetime was going to shelve the project. It would seem that she should have let the project die its natural death, since the end result was hundreds and thousands of fans rallying up as one to denounce the film and Lifetime’s casting choices of Aaliyah, Missy Elliot, Timbaland, R. Kelly and others.
Twitter displayed who was chosen to play the cast:
the cast definitely gets a ? ??#aaliyahmovie pic.twitter.com/TT4W7RHNDH
— QUEEN⚠TRILL (@QueenBeenTrill_) November 16, 2014
And then proceeded to diss the film. Timbaland and Zendaya themselves tweeted and instagrammed their reactions to the film (although Zendaya later deleted her Instagram post):
Hope yall not watching this!!!!!!!! A photo posted by Timbo the King (@timbaland) on Nov 11, 2014 at 5:27pm PST
Of course, the funniest, trillest side of Twitter, now known (for better or worse) as “Black Twitter,” proceeded to drag the movie until it tore apart at the seams.
I bet nobody peeped this ?????? #AaliyahMovie pic.twitter.com/UzFByrUtni — ƬЯΛVIƧ (@_Travisdimeer) November 16, 2014
???? RT “@KissMySnap: Why…. They got R. Kelly looking like a Black Mom with three kids. #AaliyahMovie ….. pic.twitter.com/6oJL8t0wFA” — Clinton *12.15.14* (@IAmClintonIzzy) November 16, 2014
#AaliyahMovie @lifetimetv presents: “Thriller: the Michael Jackson story”??? pic.twitter.com/Ot8OyWCoM5
— De Titus (@dedeluvzu12) November 16, 2014
Lifetime Ja Rule biopic #AaliyahMovie pic.twitter.com/h5k3RWRhPs
— Austin Vesely (@AustinVesely) November 16, 2014
Love @Timbaland shading @lifetimetv with this. #AaliyahMovie pic.twitter.com/812LopqjUs
— NaNo (@PurpleNaNo) November 16, 2014
Criiiine #aaliyahmovie #aaliyah pic.twitter.com/b3BmCNGdln
— Winnie Mosa Dixon (@HistoryofSALMON) November 16, 2014
?? Wait a damn minute ???? #AaliyahMovie @lifetimetv BE LIKE pic.twitter.com/yD5KrsdAhh
— Tyme the Infamous (@Tymethe1nfamous) November 16, 2014
I mean… #aaliyahmovie pic.twitter.com/3bXmQ3e2rT
— Whitney Smith (@IndysFruGal) November 16, 2014
Chillll ??? #aaliyahmovie pic.twitter.com/Sa138EgfgJ
— мιяα¢ℓє✨ (@qxeenmirvcle) November 16, 2014
I can’t ??? look what the #aaliyahmovie started pic.twitter.com/vsPVw19rLO
— ⚽I ❤ Marshall⚽ (@B_From_Da_Block) November 16, 2014
A photo posted by RALLO (@ralloboykins) on Nov 11, 2014 at 8:11pm PST
@WendyWilliams lookin at her twitter mentions like #aaliyahmovie pic.twitter.com/9ovCbptB0l
— cyberbye. (@couxper) November 16, 2014
That #aaliyahmovie had black Twitter like @lifetimemovie pic.twitter.com/fQjhLVru26
— (チャイナ) Rudegyal (@RudeGyalChina) November 16, 2014
Best decision of @Zendaya‘s career was dropping out of this #aaliyahmovie
— HollywoodMacc (@coolkiddlelo) November 16, 2014
I haven’t felt this disrespected by TV since they replaces Aunt Viv on The Fresh Prince #aaliyahmovie
— caspermartinez (@caspermartinez) November 16, 2014
How they did their research to cast the actors for this film… #aaliyahmovie pic.twitter.com/FtNN0VUd1T
— Alex K Tatiracanal (@alextatiracanal) November 16, 2014
There are certainly many, many more tweets and memes out there that I’ve laughed at and couldn’t fit into just one blog post. Which ones are your favorites? Did you watch the movie? What did you think of it? Give me your responses (and memes) in the comments section!
Photo credit: Lifetime
Julian 