Despite Warnings, Minecraft Moviegoers Are Now Bringing Actual Chickens to Theaters

Just erstwhile you thought it was harmless to ticker A Minecraft Movie aft cinemas issued caller rules cautioning audiences against being disruptive successful the sanction of societal media trends, the Chicken Jockey phenomenon has taken a distressing caller turn.

A station connected X from Discussing Film shared a video (that has of people gone viral) wherever idiosyncratic brought an existent chickenhearted to a Minecraft screening. Not lone are young fans raining popcorn and junk each implicit auditoriums to observe the deed video crippled adaptation, present they’re bringing casual carnal cruelty into it.

Someone brought an existent chickenhearted to a ‘MINECRAFT’ movie screening.

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— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) April 10, 2025

Rowdy screenings are not a caller trend—there person agelong been audience-participation-encouraged screenings of films similar The Rocky Horror Picture Show and The Room (spoons!), and much precocious theaters added Wicked sing-along shows to accommodate aspiring Elphabas and Glindas. But introducing unrecorded animals into the premix is decidedly taking things to a full caller level.

Silence is the aureate rule, agreed upon with a summons merchantability unless noted otherwise, and chickens are usually not therapy pets. And it doesn’t person to beryllium this way—we shouldn’t gatekeep Minecraft fans from expressing their fandom, but they besides shouldn’t maltreatment the ineffable movie-theater abstraction by making specified a commotion that it turns disconnected the remainder of the assemblage and makes theatre employees’ lives hell. Do they not recognize they could extremity up needing that occupation sweeping popcorn successful this costly ovum economy? Someone needs to get Jack Black to bash a Nicole Kidman-style advertisement reminding Minecraft fans that “real chickens don’t beryllium successful a spot similar this.”

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