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Is A Minecraft Movie Becoming a Blocky Horror Pixel Show?
What to know about the “chicken jockey” meme causing chaos in movie theaters.
Audiences are yelling the phrase (which is a Minecraft term for the rare occurrence of a baby zombie riding on a chicken), throwing popcorn in the air, getting to their feet to applaud, and — of course — holding their phones up to record the chaos. Filmmaker and YouTuber The Kino Corner described witnessing a crowd of mostly middle schoolers erupt “into sheer pandemonium” when they heard the “chicken jockey” line during an April 4 screening at an AMC theater in Austin, Texas. And on April 5, a New Jersey theater stated on Facebook that minors will no longer be able to see A Minecraft Movie without parent supervision, alleging that a large group of “unsupervised boys engaged in completely unacceptable behavior, including vandalism” during a showing the night before.
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