my #DungeonsAndDragonsMovie review performed well on tiktok but my response about the hostage situation bit they played before it “thanking” the audience for being “movie heroes” got 3x the views bc people kept saying “it made me never want to go back to the theater out of spite”
according to my hundreds of comments, people found it condescending and out of touch and are tired of it in front of other recent movies in the past few years too.
a lot more people than i thought brought up how as americans going to movie theaters is literally life threatening (either covid or shootings),
and how expensive it is and saying shit like “how movies are SUPPOSED to be seen” has a weird classist vibe
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this white woman on tiktok responded SUPER defensively to someone saying the hanging tree song from the hunger games is ripped from a song about lynchings, and then OP called ME a racist for saying “hey maybe dont get defensive about this” tiktok.com/t/ZTRc5BYhU/
she made a whole video being like ah yes its just appalachian its from the book etc etc and im like bud??? there were black hunger games fans uncomfortable that this was clearly ripped from Strange Fruit and calling this out a LONG time ago.
the comment is erroneous in calling it a “traditional black folk song”, but their intent to be like “hey this is ripped from a song about lynchings maybe dont”, and her response of “uhhh no it isnt” is OFF as hell
my guess is that 1) there is a significant enough audience of casual viewers and young enough people who did not grow up with it as much they think they can rope in using TV 2) if youve been on tiktok or ao3 lately, sadly, people have not moved on
guys look at the numbers we want this stupid shit to be dead but it is FAR from dead
the fantastic beasts movies being huge flops wont matter if theres some riverdaleification of harry potter series on hbo max dominating the edits on tiktok
nothing funnier to me than people mad i wont explain shit to them in a tiktok video. no i explained how u can go read it yourself. i am not google. call me arthur bc i am encouraging you to crack open a book
then in the next video theyre mad i spoiled a manga thats been over for a decade PICK A STRUGGLE
“what happens in this scene” “heres how you can find the thing to read it yourself and everything you need to know to experience it” “wow what a bitch she lied to us” GIRL WHAT
an impending harry potter series and ANOTHER shitty game of thrones prequel is exactly the kind of "uhhhh fuck uhhh yeah fuck it throw a dart" mining the IP they own for content that i would expect from WB rn as they grind all original content to dust to cut corners
also all the "why dont they do x" tweets guys its bc they dont own the rights for those
the shit they own they will grind into DUST before trying something new