Back in March, in preparation for the release of the Snyder cut of the Justice League movie, Snyder was doing a lot of community out reach with that fan community that helped make it happen, because Warner Brothers insisted that at first it didn't exist, then insisted it would never see the light of day. A big section of that fan community is considered "toxic" by the mainstream. One of those "toxic" communities is a Youtube channel and group called Geeks and Gamers, and along with other Youtubers in the Friday Night Tights crew, they threw a charity stream for suicide prevention in honor of Snyder, whose daughter killed herself (which was the reason he left production for Justice League). Zack Snyder himself showed up to that charity stream, that had already raised a lot of money (tens of thousands I believe, which is impressive for a relatively small community). The first thing Snyder said was that he wasn't associated with Geeks and Gamers in any way or any wrongthink/notmainstream fans, which then proceeded to kill the stream and nosedive the contributions to the charity.
Essentially, Snyder was invited into someone's house, while they were throwing him a party, and he then proceeded to shit on everything and demean the people that lived there.
Snyder was mostly praised by the fans because he (up to that point) didn't cave into the SJW mob, or insert SJW shit into his movies. He seemed like a relatively normal guy. Well, this is apparently what a normal guy in Hollywood does.
My take on that situation: Snyder doesn't have to endorse or approve of the people running a charity stream in his honor, but there are far better ways to communicate this message than "appear on the stream as a guest, live, and then sabotage the whole thing".
How to properly distance yourself from your fans: "Just gotta get something out of the way or lawyers will be so far up my ass that they'll buy me dinner next time: [group] is in no way, legal, societal, social, whatever, affiliated with me or the brands associated with me except where otherwise explicitly stated, blah blah blah. Okay, that out of the way, thank you for having me here and for raising money for this charity effort."
Zack Snyder is a piece of shit.
Back in March, in preparation for the release of the Snyder cut of the Justice League movie, Snyder was doing a lot of community out reach with that fan community that helped make it happen, because Warner Brothers insisted that at first it didn't exist, then insisted it would never see the light of day. A big section of that fan community is considered "toxic" by the mainstream. One of those "toxic" communities is a Youtube channel and group called Geeks and Gamers, and along with other Youtubers in the Friday Night Tights crew, they threw a charity stream for suicide prevention in honor of Snyder, whose daughter killed herself (which was the reason he left production for Justice League). Zack Snyder himself showed up to that charity stream, that had already raised a lot of money (tens of thousands I believe, which is impressive for a relatively small community). The first thing Snyder said was that he wasn't associated with Geeks and Gamers in any way or any wrongthink/notmainstream fans, which then proceeded to kill the stream and nosedive the contributions to the charity.
Essentially, Snyder was invited into someone's house, while they were throwing him a party, and he then proceeded to shit on everything and demean the people that lived there.
Snyder was mostly praised by the fans because he (up to that point) didn't cave into the SJW mob, or insert SJW shit into his movies. He seemed like a relatively normal guy. Well, this is apparently what a normal guy in Hollywood does.
My take on that situation: Snyder doesn't have to endorse or approve of the people running a charity stream in his honor, but there are far better ways to communicate this message than "appear on the stream as a guest, live, and then sabotage the whole thing".
How to properly distance yourself from your fans: "Just gotta get something out of the way or lawyers will be so far up my ass that they'll buy me dinner next time: [group] is in no way, legal, societal, social, whatever, affiliated with me or the brands associated with me except where otherwise explicitly stated, blah blah blah. Okay, that out of the way, thank you for having me here and for raising money for this charity effort."