Instagrammers are flooding the Bronx in New York City to visit the Joker stairs, as seen in the movie, and locals seem far from excited about it.
Photos taken by Joker fans on the stairs, connecting Shakespeare and Anderson avenues at West 167th Street, run the gamut from normal to next level. In the movie, Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker dances down the stairs.
joaquin as joker dancing and smoking on those stairs is one of the best things to ever happen in movies. pic.twitter.com/mkP0RDJTYJ
— – (@myvillaneve) October 19, 2019
For the most part, people just try to imitate the scene, then post the pictures to Instagram and Twitter as proof.
“Went to them Joker Stairs,” Twitter user @MEtriAndReyes wrote, along with his photos imitating the super villain’s poses.
WENT TO THEM JOKER STAIRS 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 pic.twitter.com/eK109XYWU4
— THE Big Floppa (@MetriAndReyes) October 12, 2019
“DINNERS READY!”
— Boba Fetty Wap (@The_Green_Blur) October 19, 2019
*Me coming down the stairs after seeing Joker*: pic.twitter.com/fF1CG3gIEe
I found the Joker stairs. Take the 4 train up to 167th Street in the Bronx. Photo: @OneMillicentCho and @cogitatotomato. 🤡 pic.twitter.com/0xrTPM2tG9
— Aesthetic Distance (@aesthdistance1) October 18, 2019
Cosplayers, like Veronica Rae, have gone all out to recreate the scene.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3pSyNDBzM0/
But Bronx residents aren’t so happy about all of the attention their borough is getting from tourists and are going to great lengths to convince Joker fans that a trip to the stairs is a bad idea
“Legally as a Bronx resident you’re allowed and encouraged to tax anyone visiting the Joker stairs,” Desus Nice, from Showtime’s Desus & Mero, tweeted.
legally as a bronx resident you’re allowed and encouraged to tax anyone visiting the joker stairs
— Desus MF Nice💯 (@desusnice) October 17, 2019
Others are joking that Instagrammers are at risk of being robbed.
“Please make sure you’re carrying cash. Everything around that area is cash only so make sure you have a lot of cash. And don’t be worried about the locals around the area they’re nice individuals,” Twitter user @BornHooligan_ wrote.
https://twitter.com/BornHooligan_/status/1185251423098982400
Instagram influencers being robbed on the Joker stairs is content to look forward to.
— Rocky (@viperwave) October 19, 2019
https://twitter.com/Baekhyuns___/status/1185560473552510976
https://twitter.com/OBC4LBenji/status/1185559603926487040
https://twitter.com/KalelFelder/status/1185040244212715522
Everybody not from the Bronx wanna visit those joker stairs till ya get robbed in that area shit not 42nd 😭
— Will (@willlopez23) October 16, 2019
They tryna say 167th stairs is a tourist attraction because of the Joker being filmed there and I am fuckin dead 😭😂😭
— Death (@PleaseUnexist) October 17, 2019
Them stairs ain’t nothing but an asthma attack and a swift robbery set up… But you know … Welcome to The South Bronx 😭😂
Some also took notice that the stairs now seem to be called “Joker Stairs” on Google Maps.
“Those awful stairs on 167 are now renamed ‘the Joker stairs; so I just want to remind everyone that the bronx is not a friendly place for tourist attractions you will get robbed beloved,” Twitter user @kailaniskye wrote in a PSA to anyone thinking about visiting.
It’s really called the Joker Stairs on google now (I just searched it).
— C (@_cvndy) October 15, 2019
Please, if you’re reading this and you’re not from around here (or ever been to the Bronx, Yankee stadium does not count) PLEASE DO NOT COME HERE.
Thanks,
Bronx Resident pic.twitter.com/s5u9gVPtyM
https://twitter.com/kailaniskye/status/1184060766497980416
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