[ SECRET POST #6456 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6456 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

What you're describing is a dynamic I've seen around Star Wars ever since The Phantom Menace came in for heavy criticism. When Attack of the Clones rolled around, a lot of the conversations on social media seemed more like promotional publicity than genuine fan appreciation.

The media has always promoted a stereotype of the fan as a vapid, easily brainwashed consumer with no aesthetic judgment or taste who believes in the desirability of anything with a large, slick advertising campaign. But most of the people I met in fandom had set, individual artistic preferences - and were pretty open to articulate arguments about how a show or movie they liked was flawed. One, because it was fun to interact with other people who cared enough to bother with that, and two, because looking honestly at the strengths and weaknesses of existing media was an important source of fan creativity.

I suspect the entertainment megacorps think this whole dynamic runs counter to their financial interests, and have been chasing a world where none of their expensive movies obviously flop, no matter what they fuck up, because anyone who denigrates them online is instantly rebutted by an angry chorus of "no it didn't! You just suck if you think so!" and equally insubstantial defensiveness.