Agreed, we have posters who don't speak English very well or have writing styles that aren't perfect by any means, and yet we all interact with them just fine, differences of opinions and disagreements alike. I too rather interact with someone that can put their own thoughts down in a post rather than filter it through an AI generator.
Well, I'll be here 20yrs in April. I've never blocked anyone. As I see it, if I'm that upset with a poster, I just don't interact with them. It always surprises me when posters don't like what I have to say, continue to engage, and then be all, another one going on ignore! Lol. If someone is really being insulting or hateful, let the mods take care of it.
Sometimes people choose to put someone on ignore even if they aren’t being insulting or hateful.
Yea I get that. It's just odd to me.
An actor offered their opinion about a fictional character and people got very angry about it. Sound familiar?
Are you the one who invented the term “doom schlock?!”
What a lovely attitude! Your comment brought me joy!
As I mentioned, sometimes you just have to do it to maintain your sanity as its easier to just not see those posts from a specific poster. The feature is there for a reason, even if its not used.
The root of all evil….its certainly not blind acceptance of the CRAP that’s been produced…But at least we got to bring back "the hate network" into our lexicon! I forgot how funny that was.
I think these comments illustrate how intractable this topic is. To my understanding, neither poster objects to Disney including gay characters in these movies. But one says it had nothing or little do with the films' failures while the other says it's naïve to think it didn't (because of the response by certain groups of people).
@Casper Gutman probably does assign more weight to those factors than I do, but the notion that he was claiming that these films would have been wildly successful if not for some nefarious conspiracy is a crude and derisive caricaturisation of what he said. I don’t see how reasonable discussion is possible when certain posters (not you, I hasten to add) seem unwilling or unable to respond to others sincerely and in good faith.
As Buford points out, I never stated that the rage campaign was the sole or primary cause for the failures of certain films. Disney certainly believes it had some pronounced impact, however, since they are censoring their product, authorizing tens of millions in reshoots, settling or dropping lawsuits they were likely to win, and otherwise taking extraordinary measures to attempt to placate the rage network.
IMO… whether a Disney film has representation or not Will not make a difference between a blockbuster or a flop… but it can be a factor… it is more nuanced then that…the angry grifters are aware of that….they pick their battles to prove that the public is with them….there is plenty “woke”material to dissect in Inside Out and Deadpool…. But they left it alone once they were going to be clear succeses
