The creators of Game of Thrones have announced their next project — and Twitter is pissed.
On Wednesday, HBO announced that David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the showrunners of the popular fantasy series, are working on a new dystopian series titled “Confederate” where the South won the Civil War.
Twitter immediately melted down over the premise of the show, where slavery remained legal.
“Confederate, Man in the High Castle, whatever — alt histories where genocide wins are boring. Genocide has already won, like, a lot,” Twitter user Connor Goldsmith wrote.
“Even if Confederate is critical of current day racism, do we need another series about the suffering of POC, written by white men?” another wrote.
Check out the best responses to the already-unpopular new series below.
It's so messed up that a show like Underground gets cancelled but @HBO green lights this Confederate mess. Keep it.
— Azalea Dunn 🇯🇲🇳🇬 (@AzaleaDunn) July 19, 2017
Is HBO really making a racist's wet dream with Confederate?? In this climate for black people??
— Sensei. (@SimplyChance_x) July 19, 2017
Dear White Male Dude Bros "Critics" and "industry insiders" perhaps fall back and listen to PoC about Confederate.
— Shanelle Little (@ShanelleLittle) July 19, 2017
HBO didn't wanna pick up Underground, but Confederate sounded like the next best thing. Ok
— American Pessimist (@Phllp_Wnslw) July 19, 2017
remind me to stay off the internet the day when Ed Sheeran cameos as a slave trader in CONFEDERATE.
— david ehrlich (@davidehrlich) July 19, 2017
Pitch all your ideas with the base confidence that they are made better by not giving more airtime to confederate Civil War/nazi successes.
— L. D. Lewis 🌻🐞🌻 (@Ellethevillain) July 19, 2017
Fucking miss me with confederate, you tone deaf shits
— cassian and/or (@turbloren) July 20, 2017
Pretty dope that HBO would make Insecure then almost immediately make Confederate! Love that vision HBO!
— Yassir Lester (@Yassir_Lester) July 19, 2017
I for one can't imagine an Alternate History where there are monuments to Confederate leaders all over America.
— Sigh Hersh (@Ugarles) July 19, 2017
@HBO Consider not going forward with your series Confederate. You'll only embolden violent white supremacists.
— Cyan (@lustafterblues) July 20, 2017
I just… HBO was like "Wow yhere sure are a lot of emboldened Nazis and confederate flag waving assholes around… What if the South won??"
— Sarah Walsh (@BigDamnHerosSir) July 20, 2017
if hbo is really going to make a godawful show about confederate slaves in an alt-2017 let me save you the trouble here is what happens pic.twitter.com/u5ycC5t2IS
— DOCFUTURE (@topherflorence) July 19, 2017
Every pop culture writer I know, upon being asked about HBO's Confederate. pic.twitter.com/Pa5MeMe4eK
— Kayleigh Donaldson (@Ceilidhann) July 19, 2017
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