In its 10-year long journey, Marvel has released many successful movies including ‘Black Panther’, a film that culturally represented the African-American community. The lifelike movie was an instant hit and broke multiple box-office records.
In fact, the movie was so realistic that a man found Wakanda, the fictional African kingdom of Black Panther, in the US trade list. Francis Tseng, a New York-based software engineer was looking for data on US agricultural tariffs for a fellowship when he noticed the listing on the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) website, reports BBC News.
He immediately took to Twitter to share his confusion:
Wakanda is listed as a US free trade partner on the USDA website?? pic.twitter.com/xcq1OFTIPh
— Francis Tseng (@frnsys) December 18, 2019
The tracker listed the country’s commodity groups which included fresh vegetables, unroasted coffee beans, essential oils, and livestock. The fictional country, that was added as a test file, was soon removed from the list. “The Wakanda information should have been removed after testing and has now been taken down,” an agency spokesman was quoted saying by The Washington Post.
People quickly flooded Francis’s Twitter thread with sarcastic comments. Have a look:
This has gotta be Trump's GREATEST DEAL EVER!!
— Dan Sinclair (@dannocanada) December 19, 2019
As a resident of Wakanda, I find this to be a great honour.
— Sura Mbaya (@surambaya) December 19, 2019
Wakanda grows some of the best covfefe in the world.
— Lincoln Paine (@LincolnPaine) December 19, 2019
https://twitter.com/Spartan1984/status/1207651289787707392?s=20
Oh, crap. That means they know about my vibranium smuggling! 😳
— Brian (@Jedi_Knut) December 19, 2019
— Mary Ann (confirmation name) 🌼 (@BeatitudesRadio) December 19, 2019
Somebody did it…
Wakanda Forever.
— Hypnotisør Jesper Skjærbæk (@HypnoJesper) December 19, 2019
What they not telling us
— rye good (@ryerye333) December 19, 2019
https://twitter.com/amannthing/status/1207644144652505093?s=20
So is Vibranium now available to the public?
— Teddy G. (@TheRealTGregs) December 19, 2019
Since they have already rectified the error all we can say is “Wakanda Forever”!
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