Netflix has announced its next children’s film that will be released in a few months. However, it seems like Netflix didn’t do a bit of fact-checking before making the announcement. Upon closer inspection of the film’s promotional material, it seems like the title of its newest flick might be too inappropriate for the targeted age group.
Recommended VideosTwitter user @Vanessid quote tweeted the poster for Netflix’s newest film, titled Chupa. The title was meant to be the shortened version of the word ‘Chupacabra,’ a creature based on Puerto Rican folklore. However, it was discovered that the word “Chupa” in Spanish to “suck off.”
Imagine the sheer amount of people this title went through at @netflix all the way to “release promo movie poster” for no one to tell them that you can’t shorten the word “chupacabra” with “chupa” because it literally means “to suck off” … like kids should not google this word https://t.co/A3vSEOG5cJ
— El Norte Recuerda (@Vanessid) March 14, 2023Despite this being a case of Netflix not having diverse speakers in its marketing team, Chupa was directed by a Mexican film director, Jonás Cuarón, and will star Mexican actor and Godzilla vs Kong star Demián Bichir. Meaning that the people involved in making this film were aware of shortening the word. After all “chupa” sounds cute without context.
Unfortunately, not everyone knew about this and the tweet sparked Twitter users from having a laugh. Especially due to the film’s tagline “Discover the legend.” You could imagine what first came to people’s minds when they learn what the word translated to.
i just watched Chupa: Discover the Legend on gay P*rnhub and it was a great film. five stars lol
— JD Pluecker (@JDPluecker) March 14, 2023The original is actually pretty gay already https://t.co/jjcHYMHQQL
— Gale Tazzin (@GaleTazzin) March 15, 2023"Discover the Legend"….Geeezus I am dead….DEAD I SAY! https://t.co/8Y7yggdSzu
— Johnnie Jae aka The Burnt Ball of Fury (@johnniejae) March 14, 2023This isn’t the only time we saw the word “Chupas” in public. This post brought people’s attention to the lollipop brand, Chupa Chups, which contains the word in question. People also pointed out that the film was made by a Spanish-speaking team and that they too could shorten their words like English speakers. So Spanish-speaking users or those aware of who was involved in the film assumed that people behind the film knew what the context was.
Its also the name of a popular candy in America. Chupa Chups.
— Learn German through Music Podcast 🥨 🇩🇪 🇺🇦 ♀️ (@GermanthruMusic) March 14, 2023You’re telling me I’ve been sucking off chups this whole time https://t.co/VnUMitXuPY
— yahanditsyaboyrobert🦌 (@YourGoodFriendR) March 14, 2023I mean chupa chup is right there! pic.twitter.com/zzx68XP78J
— Lady Diamond 💎 (@madame_diamond) March 14, 2023As an English speaker who learned Spanish later in life, an important lesson is Never think you can shorten Spanish words like you can in English. It won’t work, you’ll probably say something offensive. Leave the slang creation to native speakers.
— Mel Vitta ☭ (@muticere) March 14, 2023Chupa is an upcoming Netflix fantasy film about a young boy discovering a chupacabra that’s living in his grandfather’s shed in Mexico. The film entered filming around April 2020 and finished by Oct. 2021. However, some people pointed out that Chupacabras aren’t meant to look like the hippogriff in Harry Potter, which is somewhat what the poster tried to portray, and was meant to look somewhat demonic or vampiric.
Chupa is scheduled to come out on Netflix on April 7, 2023.
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