This is a lot like when Disney fired James Gunn after an astro-turfed right-wing campaign (spearhead by Mike Cernovich) convinced them that there was genuine outrage over some tweets he’d made a decade prior. Disney fired Gunn, there was a huge public backlash in response, and the entire Gaurdians cast threatened to walk. When they finally tried to rehire him, he was working for their largest competitor, which caused them to delay Gaurdians 3 by several years, and now Gunn is pulling DC studios out of it’s nosedive as Marvel is tanking.
Anyway, this time is a little different, because they’re clearly bowing to authoritarian government pressure as well, but they clearly misread the publics mood on this once again. It’s super weird that this billion dollar company keeps doing lasting damage to itself because it thinks Twitter is real life.
It’s kinda insane that the largest entertainment company in the world can be completely up ended because one guy unilaterally decided to cave to fascism.
This is a lot like when Disney fired James Gunn after an astro-turfed right-wing campaign (spearhead by Mike Cernovich) convinced them that there was genuine outrage over some tweets he’d made a decade prior. Disney fired Gunn, there was a huge public backlash in response, and the entire Gaurdians cast threatened to walk. When they finally tried to rehire him, he was working for their largest competitor, which caused them to delay Gaurdians 3 by several years, and now Gunn is pulling DC studios out of it’s nosedive as Marvel is tanking.
Anyway, this time is a little different, because they’re clearly bowing to authoritarian government pressure as well, but they clearly misread the publics mood on this once again. It’s super weird that this billion dollar company keeps doing lasting damage to itself because it thinks Twitter is real life.
From the reporting even executives at Disney are pissed. It sounds like a few people, possibly one, made this shitty decision.
It’s kinda insane that the largest entertainment company in the world can be completely up ended because one guy unilaterally decided to cave to fascism.