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.