Judd Apatow Kicked Off The Bad Take Apocalypse By Claiming Will Smith Could Have Killed Chris Rock

Judging by social media reactions, the only thing anyone cares about this morning is that Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at last night's 94th Academy Awards. It was a moment that True Posters knew would lead to a Twitter meltdown, because it would immediately become a thing everyone would have to have an opinion on — many of those opinions labeled “bad.”

Of these, the first of likely many to make headlines came from director Judd Apatow, who was aghast at the slap, saying Smith "could've killed him."

While it's understandable Apatow would condemn the slap, as it was widely viewed as an overreaction to a tasteless but light joke about Jada Pinkett-Smith's alopecia, it seems extreme to claim an open-handed slap could have "killed" Chris Rock. Twitter took to widely dunking on Apatow's handwringing with various jokes imagining how that could have happened.

Many also noted that Apatow's condemnation of Smith's slap stood in stark contrast to how Apatow had defended accused abusers James Franco and Lena Dunham.

Apatow's tweet was later deleted, but it will live on in public memory, at least until another incendiary tweeter replaces Apatow as the site's main character.