If you estimated how much THE LAST JEDI made in theatres by measuring positive/negative comments on social media, you’d end up somewhere in the $12 range, not the 1.33 BILLION it actually earned.
The minority that shouts and screams about nearly anything that does not fall in line with their...limited worldview is in a sounding chamber that amplifies the negative, while the positive is barely audible.
Luckily, as can be seen by all the latest “controversies” (they’re not ACTUALLY controversies, just whiny little assholes trying to control something) the products just keep on succeeding despite the shrieking.
So, the lesson is this: just because some shut-in can scream at you from their basement in a way they couldn’t in 1989 doesn’t mean that that screaming means anything. I encourage you to block them and get on with your life.
I’ll take it further — until the INDUSTRIES involved start realizing that these small, reactionary trolls are status quo and don’t actually reflect anything business-wise, we’ll keep seeing bonehead moves from publishers and movie makers, trying to appease the basement-dwellers.
