If you could take over an entertainment company or an IP and do something petty/out of spite like they have done (for example, 2016 Ghostbusters which was a middle finger to real fans or Disney throwing out the EU only to bastardize it). What is 1 to 3 things you would do just to return the pettiness or for revenge?
I would do the following:
Make the Rey "Skywalker" movie and have Rey give up on everything and become a grumpy hermit just to see the critics/shills twist themselves into knots explaining why that was brilliant for Luke but sexist for Rey.
Hire someone to actually adapt Wheel of Time and cast people who look like they are described in the book so I could sit back and laugh at the wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Take over a company that makes romance novels or romance movies and have all the male love interests be balding, overweight, middle aged men who are unemployed. When there is backlash I'll just lecture the women about body positivity and unrealistic expectations.
Ohhhh. Ok. Ive heard of that. Do the content creators take them seriously?
It depends, I think japanese developers and japanese fanbases tend to ignore them most of the time since they're are seem mostly as a bunch of hysterical harpies who derail every kind of legitimate conversation about the series they're fans of. Unless, of course, the series in particular is geared towards them, which in case there's no helping.
Western fanbases tend to be more forgiving and since most of them are girls there's some people who use the sexist card to defend their actions, all in all i think the main difference of the western fujo is that she knows how to use idpol to her advantage better since none of the "male" fans would want to look "homophobic"
In any case, they're extremely annoying should be shooed away whenever possible.
I remember tokyo ghoul author getting death threats when Kaneki fucked Touka
Eastern devs usually don't need to pander to them, because they'll do it themselves: See all the Deku x King Explosion Murder shipping in MHA, in example. There's a reason they're called fujoshits. Ignore their delusional shipping, and move on.
Western devs, though, they do pander to them. And that's an issue. Because they aren't really a buying force, just a marketing force.
Honest to God the MHA shipping turned made me never wanna look up shit for the series ever again. It helps that the manga got boring over a year ago and I haven't looked into both the fandom and the manga for 1+ years.
I honestly avoided shippers because I primarily interacted with the fanfic people, and unironically a lot of them hate it too. Plus I just generally disagree with a lot of Horikoshi's decisions so I stopped reading the manga a bit ago as well