#GentleMinions trend of suited-up teens irks — and amuses — moviegoers. The latest social media trend has convinced young adults to dress in Rat Pack-esque suits and pose in formation with steeple hands, sometimes with a banana in their breast pockets.
The social media challenge encourages youngsters to don formal attire and go absolutely bananas in the theater for the titular yellow sidekicks. The trend has been credited online for helping “Minions: The Rise of Gru” break the Fourth of July record during its opening weekend at the domestic box office.
The inspiration is a TikTok trend known as #GentleMinions, which has amassed more than 61 million views on the platform. It encourages “Minions” moviegoers to film themselves as they dress up in suits and sunglasses to attend screenings of the latest installment of the “Despicable Me” series.
The trend is to record a video of yourself dressed in a formal suit and visit the cinema to see the newly released Minions: Rise of Gru. An individual would also mimic the villain Gru from the film by clasping their hands together.
Tens of thousands of videos on TikTok feature groups of young people, mostly teenage boys, showing up to screenings of Minions: The Rise of Gru rocking dapper suits and sunglasses, and sometimes carrying bananas, a reference to the beloved film franchise they grew up with.
Some cinemas have banned young people wearing suits from screenings of Minions: The Rise of Gru over rowdy behaviour fuelled by a TikTok trend. Teenagers following the #gentleminions trend have been accused of making noise and throwing things during screenings.
How did it start? The trend began on the social media site TikTok, with the hashtag #gentleminion becoming popularised by teenagers. Participants of the trend come together in ironic celebration of the film, which is targeted primarily at young children.
Parents have blasted film studio Universal for encouraging teenage boys to wear suits to screenings of the new Minions film after their rowdy behaviour in cinemas brought on by a TikTok trend left children in tears.
The “GentleMinions” trend is fueled by a commitment to shitposting that blends a chaotic love of Minion memes, nostalgia, and the good ol' moviegoing experience. Minions: The Rise of Gru is a prequel to the Despicable Me movie franchise that features the bumbling yellow bean-like characters.
To be ironic, young men on TikTok have started donning formal attire to sessions of the latest Minions flick to give, in their words, this piece of high art cinema the respect it deserves. The trend has been dubbed #GentleMinions, a play on "gentlemen", and has quickly gone viral.
It's all part of a viral TikTok trend involving the little yellow henchmen that stole the show in 2010's animated hit Despicable Me.
Central to their appeal is their unique manner of communicating. Voiced by Coffin himself, they speak a peculiar, made-up language, Minionese, that is both indecipherable and strangely coherent.
The Minions have personalities that are similar to the Raving Rabbids from the Rabbids video game series. Minions have only three fingers, possibly because most classic cartoon characters are drawn with only three (or four or five) fingers.
Minionese appears to be a posteriori language, which borrows words and - such as they are - grammatical rules from many different languages. Minionese contains some elements of English, with words like "Banana", "Bapple" (apple, basically "Apple" with "B"), and "Potato".
The creator of the Minions explained the reason behind the lack of females in their population back in 2015 – and it's not what you might think. Talking to The Wrap, Pierre Coffin said, "Seeing how dumb and stupid they often are, I just couldn't imagine Minions being girls."
Aside from China, Lebanon will be the only other country that has decided to ban the Minions. Lebanese social media users are not reacting kindly to this news. People on Instagram and Twitter are enraged by the continuous censorship of movies.
The trend involves large groups of teenage boys, who call themselves The Gentleminions, filming themselves going to watch the latest instalment in the Despicable Me franchise dressed in suits.
Zhang Yiming (Chinese: 张一鸣; born April 1, 1983) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur. He founded ByteDance in 2012 and developed the news aggregator Toutiao and the video sharing platform TikTok (Douyin/抖音), formerly known as Musical.ly.
Minions became famous because of their relatability. They represent the childlike wonder and joy that we all crave in our lives. Their carefree attitude and loyalty to their leader, Gru, also resonate with our desire for belonging and purpose.
Cinema Cancelled Future Screenings Of Minions After Staff Abused With Objects Thrown At Them. A cinema was forced to cancel screenings of the latest Minions film after some 'stunningly bad behaviour' from people turning up in suits as part of a viral trend.
Cinemas are now banning people from wearing suits to screenings following the explosion of the bizarre "gentleminions" trend. In case you didn't know, the second Minions movie was released in theatres in the US on July 1.
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