I think as it pertains to this newly coined hate network as it were. It’s not all about bigotry and that’s only the minority of it. It’s about all the poo Disney found itself in, in a very multifaceted way. Whether one is upset about leadership, direction of their favourite franchise, parks decisions, a hostile takeover, even a political slant. It doesn’t matter. Lots of people found themselves very angry at the company and found the poor film output a way to pile on.
All the posters reassuring us it’s all about the quality fail to see where their rationality gives out. If you find yourself cheering against everything without reason, you are part of the problem. I said this last year when a good portion of people claiming otherwise (that only quality wins out) found themselves giddily dancing on the grave of Elemental’s opening weekend. I kept saying over and over it makes no sense that anyone would be happy about that film. It’s an original pic, with a good hook, well made. It’s exactly the antithesis of The Little Mermaid, which I see many rational (non hateful) reasons to want to see fail. There’s only one poster here who I think has a rational reason to want to see Pixar fail on original fare. I disagree, but I follow their logic. Which is mostly that they’ve never watched almost any (?all) Pixar films and most of their exposure to it is bad product output in Disneyland Resort.
Now we have many of the same people espousing quality, but quietly annoyed Moana 2 and Deadpool are going to do well. But don’t give me the cynical BS about quality of the product or sequels or whatever other excuse. Because they are all very happy the sixth Despicable Me Franchise entrant is also going to hit. There’s no logic in arguing quality at that point, it’s just about irrationally targeting all media output from Disney.