This has the feel of what is becoming a pretty standard trend: a “girl” thing will be hyped to all hell, be all over the news for a hot minute, turn out to suck ass, be nevertheless defended vigorously by The Movement, and then be forgotten again in a few months.
Ghostbusters 2016 is perhaps the classic example, but more recently we’ve seen this trend with She-hulk and Velma. For tv shows we can expect to go through it again with each season, of course. But Barbie has already been hyped to hell and is all over entertainment news, and it sounds like stage 3 (turns out it sucks) will go live soon as people start seeing it. Expect social media SJWs to be all over the algorithm defending it and then for it to be forgotten by September!
The thing is, they seem to be desperately trying to make that happen. They want that entire girl hype train and defense run for themselves.
But literally the only people they managed to hook where extremist guys posting "literally me" images of Ryan Gosling who were only interested in seeing it for him. The exact type of people they hate the most, and the media will tear the movie apart if they catch wind of them in the fanbase.
This has the feel of what is becoming a pretty standard trend: a “girl” thing will be hyped to all hell, be all over the news for a hot minute, turn out to suck ass, be nevertheless defended vigorously by The Movement, and then be forgotten again in a few months.
Ghostbusters 2016 is perhaps the classic example, but more recently we’ve seen this trend with She-hulk and Velma. For tv shows we can expect to go through it again with each season, of course. But Barbie has already been hyped to hell and is all over entertainment news, and it sounds like stage 3 (turns out it sucks) will go live soon as people start seeing it. Expect social media SJWs to be all over the algorithm defending it and then for it to be forgotten by September!
The thing is, they seem to be desperately trying to make that happen. They want that entire girl hype train and defense run for themselves.
But literally the only people they managed to hook where extremist guys posting "literally me" images of Ryan Gosling who were only interested in seeing it for him. The exact type of people they hate the most, and the media will tear the movie apart if they catch wind of them in the fanbase.
Do you think Barbie will succeed?
Your comparison to Ghostbusters 2016 makes sense, but that movie flopped.
Could history repeat itself with Barbie, or could it actually profit?