Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg Becoming a member of Sylvester Stallone's 'Conventional' Studio?

On April 8, 2024, the Fb page America’s Final Line of Protection posted a quote meme claiming actors Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg have been becoming a member of Sylvester Stallone’s new manufacturing studio targeted on selling “conventional values.”

The submit read in full:

“It is time for Hollywood to take have a look at what it is turn out to be,” stated Stallone, “We’d like cheap folks to step up and reject all of the wokeness that is ruining our trade.”

Wahlberg and Washington stood stoically by because the three made the announcement in Chicago.

As of this writing, the post had acquired greater than 134,000 reactions and was shared about 12,000 instances. In a remark beneath the submit, America’s Final Line of Protection wrote, “Sly is true, patriots. Hollywood wants a reset. No extra woke reboots that utterly change the story. No extra casting folks for elements due to their range issue reasonably than their capability to behave. No extra specializing in what makes lower than one % of the inhabitants pleased.” 

(Fb consumer America’s Final Line of Protection)

Just a few social media customers thought the submit was actual, whereas others noticed it as pretend. One consumer commented beneath the submit, “Good males and good resolution!” 

Nevertheless, the reality was this merchandise about Washington, Stallone and Wahlberg was not a factual recounting of real-life occasions.

The America’s Final Line of Protection Fb web page introduction states: “The flagship of the ALLOD community of trollery. Nothing on this web page is actual.” The web page can also be categorized as “Satire/Parody.” As such we charge this declare as satirical in nature.

The Fb web page additionally hyperlinks to The Dunning-Kruger Times, which describes itself as “a subsidiary of the ‘America’s Final Line of Protection’ community of parody, satire, and tomfoolery, or as Snopes known as it earlier than they misplaced their warfare on satire: Junk Information.”

Furthermore, the web site’s “About Us” part states:

Every thing on this web site is fiction. It isn’t a lie and it’s not pretend information as a result of it’s not actual. When you consider that it’s actual, it is best to have your head examined. Any similarities between this web site’s pure fantasy and precise folks, locations, and occasions are purely coincidental and all photos needs to be thought-about altered and satirical.

This isn’t the primary time we have debunked such claims from this Fb web page. On Could 29, 2024, the web page posted a pretend meme additionally concentrating on De Niro with the textual content: “Kevin Costner Fires Robert De Niro From His New Challenge: ‘He is Disrespectful And He Does not Know When To Shut Up.'” 

For background, right here is why we generally write about satire/humor.