Police have sought to reassure the community after a message board post appeared to threaten a Sydney cinema, on the day the new ‘Joker’ film was released.
A screenshot of the alleged post — said to have first been posted on message board 4chan, then later deleted — came to light on Reddit on Wednesday.
The person posted the message under an anonymous account, with a display picture showing Joaquin Phoenix’s portrayal of the Joker character. The message read: “some of you guys are alright. Don’t go to ritz cinemas sydney tomorrow.”
The message references a post published on 4chan just hours before a mass school shooting in Umpqua, in the U.S. state of Oregon, in 2015. The “some of you guys” message, warning of an incident to occur at a school, was never explicitly connected to the shooter — who was shot dead during the attack — but has become a kind of internet meme on message boards.
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