The Captain Marvel Freakout: Satisfying Observations
If you watched YouTube in any of the five months leading up to the release of the Captain Marvel movie, you might have noticed an uptick in content pre-emptively attacking the film because feminism. The anti-feminist movement against this film made its way indeed across much of social media, resulting in, for example, an audience anticipation score or just 27% on Rotten Tomatoes due to organized trolling. In reality, of course, the film was given a Cinema Score of A by actual moviegoers alongside a 73% "definite recommend" score on Post Trak, and has gone on earn more than $404 million domestically alone and more than $1 billion worldwide already, and is easily the highest-grossing film of the year to date. Clearly then there exists a certain divorce between the real world and the world of social media. A emergent popular YouTuber observed this divorce and poked fun at in a recent YouTube video.
Just thought I'd share it today because I found it funny to actually watch the anti-feminist online movement that mobilized so obsessively and insanely against this movie discredited and mocked at-length. It's satisfying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9abVzAkG4WE&t=532s