I remember a few months back there was a similar poll where women said video games were a turnoff. Just makes me laugh considering for over a decade they have been really pushing the idea that there are waves and waves of women who want to buy super hero comics or waves of women just dying to play video games that generally appeal to men.
I know with comic books there was a poll during the height of the MCU that showed that 50 percent of women liked the movies. Which anyone could see that the people going to the movies weren't reading the comics. Of course Gail Simone and her fridging nonsense caused comic book head to bend the knee to this nonsense instead of seeing who actually buys comics. As for gaming, I remember it being 2018 when I finally cancelled my Game Informer subscription when every issue was either something about women in gaming or some ridiculous lecture about toxicity or lack of diversity in gaming.
Don't forget the sob stories of women who cried about going into a comic book store and having to "be quizzed" by nerds (i.e. an unattractive man asked her what comics she liked). All this is why with rare exception I just watch stuff that was made 2014 and prior. Just with the 80s and 90s there is so much I didn't see growing up and I am catching up on (like I am currently watching the Sleepaway Camp movies on Tubi).
Sorry for the long message, but I found that poll to be pretty funny.
I saw this with guys too. Basic normies who saw the MCU movies when they were hot but didn’t go to buy any comics. Thats always been around. Like a ton of people saw Star Wars but only a fraction got into the games or the EU books and comics.
The movies would never make a profit if only people who bought comic books went to see them.
I know, but as with anything the normies will get tired of it and move on so you can’t neglect the comic book fans or like with Star Wars the EU readers. They made a mistake by discarding them when it would’ve been easy to just write books in that continuity separate from the canon. The now cancelled Wheel of Time show pissed off the book fans from the start. I do get your point and you are correct
I didn't mean to say the diehard fans opinions are to be ignored.
They are the filterers, they read all the junk and find the gems that are worth making into more expensive to produce media.
It is unrealistic to expect most people who invest 2 hours to see a movie, and like it, to invest the kind of time it takes to seek out and buy and read comic books. Though the digital age has hopefully made that a little easier. In a way though, I hope it hasn't, at least at the commercial level, that would just mean more Black Rock infiltration.
Good points all around