It has been a long time since “fans” of a franchise: Marvel, Star Wars, Star Trek, have actually been fans of the media they complain about constantly.
Negative reactions get a bigger share of views online, and there is an industry of people who make money off claiming that the latest popular thing marks the end of one media franchise or another. Couple this with the increasingly open misogyny and homophobia in a lot of critical reactions, and I start to wonder why these media companies even care what the online reaction is anymore.
Clearly the general audience didn’t buy into the “She-Hulk hates men and is just a rip-off of the wholly original male Hulk” shtick. It was a fun show. It had some moments that didn’t work for me, but then the show wasn’t made explicitly for me.
It has been a long time since “fans” of a franchise: Marvel, Star Wars, Star Trek, have actually been fans of the media they complain about constantly.
Negative reactions get a bigger share of views online, and there is an industry of people who make money off claiming that the latest popular thing marks the end of one media franchise or another. Couple this with the increasingly open misogyny and homophobia in a lot of critical reactions, and I start to wonder why these media companies even care what the online reaction is anymore.
Clearly the general audience didn’t buy into the “She-Hulk hates men and is just a rip-off of the wholly original male Hulk” shtick. It was a fun show. It had some moments that didn’t work for me, but then the show wasn’t made explicitly for me.