Warner Bros. partnered with DogPack on a roughly 90-second AI dog podcast featuring Goldie, Frenchie and Starbuck, according to Variety. The campaign drew a large X reaction: Nexus Point News' post showed 4,634,525 views, 1,423 quote posts and 617 replies at capture — a snapshot, not a platform-wide ranking. TheWrap described the resulting backlash, while Comic Basics reported that the film-linked Instagram video appeared to be removed while the clip continued circulating elsewhere.
The key boundary is narrower than the online argument: the cited reporting establishes AI use in a promotional video, not that the feature film itself used generative AI. The X sample is illustrative, not a poll.
Three voices in the sample
- @warnerbros promoted the film's Aug. 14 release without addressing the AI dispute.
- @_AlexHirsch: “@NexusPointNews The first dogs I’ve ever wanted to euthanize”
- @JamesPPoole: “THE END OF OAK STREET doesn’t deserve to take the fall for the marketing team’s very poor decision making”
All timestamps in the cards use the channel timezone. Sources: Variety, Scified, Comic Basics, and the linked X posts.
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