The original Planet of the Apes came out in 1968, when cinema had just been invented. People were still running screaming out of the theater when they watched a movie of a train driving towards the camera. That's why they were so surprised and impressed by the big reveal at the end of the film (spoiler alert) that shows the Statue of Liberty, letting us know that Charlton Heston has been on Earth all along. This movie is so old, that people named Charlton were still in existence!
The fact that the planet overrun with powerful, human-enslaving apes is actually planet Earth is so well known it's a running joke. There's even a joke on The Simpsons about it:
So when a parody account called Movie Goofs posted about Planet of the Apes on Twitter, it seemed safe to assume people would get the joke. All the account does is post made-up errors in plot and continuity in movies, and they're often pretty funny.
For this one, they wrote, "It is never explained how or why the Statue of Liberty was transported from Earth to the planet of the apes."
Not a terrible joke, in my opinion. But a whole bunch of people actually took offense, insisting this wasn't a plot hole at all:
The account seemed to be dealing with it by just replying to folks clarifying that "IT WAS EARTH" by repeating more fake movie continuity errors, eventually repeating the same one over and over about Charlton Heston's lines. I hope it was some sort of bot they set up, because the replies really never ended. It just goes to show, no one reads the replies—or recognizes satire when they see it.
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