by Itchy Bacca
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Ethan responded with another one of his hysterical videos:
Ugh, one of those Comics-Gate turd-farmers did some video about me and now I must flex my block hand. Ethan Van Someone? JFC.
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) June 1, 2018
help I fell down a weird rabbit hole of shitty Star Wars fans
oh my god these people
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) May 31, 2018
What a weird thing to be a fan of a thing you so obviously despise.
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) May 31, 2018
We don’t despise Star Wars. Rather, we despise what ignorant SJWs such as yourself are doing to it.
Current idea is that SOLO is “tanking” — I guess by having the fourth biggest opening in 2018 so far — because of SUPERFANS who so hated the Last Jedi so bad that their magic hate powers caused a sorcerous boycott of SOLO.
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) May 31, 2018
Apparently you didn’t pay attention to any of the news over opening weekend of Solo? How about the 2nd weekend?
And that’s astonishingly goofy on so many levels.
First, that fans — again, FANS! — are happy — HAPPY!? — that Star Wars is faring poorly. It’s like rooting for your own child to fail. It’s like hoping your own puppy falls down some steps. It’s so weird.
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) May 31, 2018
We’re rooting that your version of Star Wars is faring poorly.
Second, that people hated THE LAST JEDI enough to affect SOLO’s numbers, but somehow not enough to affect… TLJ’s numbers? Like, with TLJ, what, people kept tonguing that broken tooth? Feeding money into the Movie Machine to hope it would get better? And then bought the Blu-Ray?
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) May 31, 2018
Actually, The Last Jedi‘s numbers WERE affected, the 68% dropoff after the opening weekend was shocking, and portended this happening for those who didn’t stick their heads in the sand.
“I hate this ice cream and I want it to fail, so I will keep buying it and eating it.” pic.twitter.com/ETiMHnFZR2
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) May 31, 2018
Huh? TLJ and especially Solo both demonstrated that fewer and fewer people are returning to buy your ice cream. Maybe that’s what your mad at?
And if you fall deep enough down the rabbit hole, it gets extra weird.
First, they hated TFA, because something something SJWs, JJA, identity politics, ANH rehash, whatever.
Then, they hated TLJ because it “ruined TFA.”
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) May 31, 2018
Well Chuck, you seem to live in a collective, where everyone is required to think identically. Diversity of thought is strictly forbidden for you, but normal people (normies) are individuals, and therefore think individually. Some people liked TFA, but not TLJ and some people didn’t like either, but each individual has their own reasons for being dissatisfied with the current direction of Lucasfilm. No two movie goers will be exactly alike.
Then they were sure that TLJ failed because it didn’t do TFA’s numbers, even though TLJ was still like, one of the biggest movies ever — not that this really matters, but somehow they’re sure this means it failed? Blah blah Ruin Johnson and other clever starwarsgate trolltalk.
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) May 31, 2018
Again, TLJ‘s numbers were affected, the dropoff after the opening weekend was shocking.
SOLO arguably *is* underperforming, and to claim that their little fan campaigns had anything to do with that is so bizarre and narcissistic, you might as well claim it’s because you did a fucking magic “I Hate Star Wars” tap dance in your man-cave.
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) May 31, 2018
In some respects I agree. In keeping with your ice cream metaphor, the social justice propaganda did all the heavy lifting in pushing normal people away from the franchise, just as it does in every other cultural institution that it infects. That was the bulk of the sundae, and it will likely continue to grow. The boycott was likely just the cherry on top of that sundae.
The reasons a movie underperforms are multifarious: it’s not that good, or we just had a SW movie, or SW is settling into a more predictable soft pattern as Marvel has, or people don’t want a new Han Solo, or it just isn’t tickling the zeitgeist in a meaningful way.
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) May 31, 2018
Yes. It is multifarious. The poor treatment of critical fans by Lucasfilm representatives, the imposition of moronic social justice propaganda and the subsequent SJW fatigue, the massive box office drop off after opening day of The Last Jedi which portended of bad things to come, the waning toy and merchandise sales which indicated waning interest, letters written by the fans and sent to Lucasfilm and Hasbro, the in-your-face announcement of Lando Calrissian’s pansexuality and the celebration of a social justice droid shortly before release, the refusal to cast fan favorite Anthony Ingruber as Han Solo, Lucasfilm staff marginalizing the same criticisms coming from women and people of color, and of course, the boycott.
It’s *never* because of hater-fans. A movie also never *succeeds* because of its fans, because most moviegoers — the ones who form the bulk of the moviegoing public, the ones who buy most of the tickets — don’t give a great honking shit about most of this stuff.
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) May 31, 2018
Right. They just get pushed away by your social justice propaganda. Naturally.
It’s just fascinating to watch this group claim some kind of power and agency over this. And they WANT that agency so, so, so bad.
Their next “move” in their culture war campaign is, wait for it, to “support Jurassic World 2” because of Colin Trevorrow.
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) May 31, 2018
Thank you for the plug, Chuck.
Trevorrow was fired from #EpisodeIX, so their thing is, PUT ALL OUR ENERGY INTO JW2 AND MAKE IT A SUCCESS and THAT’LL SHOW STAR WARS, THE THING WE SUPPOSEDLY LOVE BUT ACTUALLY REALLY HATE.
I mean, you might as well “support” oxygen. “Everybody’s breathing it. We won!”
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) May 31, 2018
JURASSIC WORLD 2 ain’t gonna have any problems at the box office. If you really want to “prove” your power, see if you can get The Book of Henry to the top of the Blu-Ray charts or some shit. pic.twitter.com/e9IrkiaAXP
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) May 31, 2018
It’s not about making Jurassic World 2 a success. It’s about supporting the director and producer who has respect for the fans. Lucasfilm staff could learn a lot from him.
But the fact that you’re raging on about the #SeeJurassicWorld2 campaign is an excellent indication that it’s the right thing to do strategically. Thank you for your confirmation.
Hey, remember the days when you guys thought that everyone would go see the movies and buy the toys and merchandise, because Star Wars? Good times, right?
Thing is, I still remember this from AFTERMATH — all the review-bombing, all the conspiracy theories about how the book was Secretly Failing. I’d get emails telling me, “Ha ha ha, your book isn’t even on bookshelves!”
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) May 31, 2018
Never mind there are a lot of reasons books don’t land on bookshelves — one of them being, well, the book sold out.
I mean, two years after the book came out, AFTERMATH still sells several hundred copies a week.
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) May 31, 2018
Just like there’s lots of reasons that Star Wars is faring poorly?
And of course you wonder how this even continues or why, and those answers are both complex and simple. First, some people have monetized it, or want to — YouTube channels that financially channel people’s dipshit rage.
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) May 31, 2018
Well I’m glad Ethan Van Sciver channeled your rage, and was able to get value from your worthless ravings.
Second, bots or fake accounts. Given that some of these accounts are literally nothing but this — or are this and Trumpy shitstain stuff — you kinda see what’s up.
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) May 31, 2018
We’re officially getting into tin foil hat territory.
Third, it’s what’s at the heard of ALL this weaponized aerosolized horseshit — it’s sexism and racism. It’s sphincter-stung white dudes who are so tender, so brittle, they cannot hack that the world is now only 90% about them instead of 95%.
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) May 31, 2018
Yes, yes. Sexism this…racism that…bla, bla, bla…
Their names change — MRA, incel, gamer-gate, comics-gate, sad puppies, Real Star Wars fans — but at the heart of it is the same fragile rage born of the poisonous chemical combination of white supremacy and toxic masculinity.
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) May 31, 2018
Don’t the Reptillians and the Illuminati play any role in this? What about the Men in Black? The Pleiadians?
What about the non-whites and non-women who have the exact same opinions?
This is the huge, huge cultural knot that lead to this current fuuuuuucked-up moment in American and world history, and it’s going to take time and effort to untie it and/or chop through it.
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) May 31, 2018
Chop through it with what? How?
It’s the same shit. It’s the same tiny hearts nested in massive inflated egos who fear that the world is not uniquely theirs and that they might actually have to, gasp, share it with other people, and oh no, not get by on mediocrity alone.
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) May 31, 2018
Pot meet kettle.
The reason they hate identity politics is that it involves politics that do not perfectly invoke their singular identity. At the heart of it, these people aren’t fans, and they can’t see through the particulate shit-fog of their own expulsions to see what they really are.
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) May 31, 2018
Identity politics is strictly for the small minded and immature. It’s merely a large scale version of high school politics where the silly artificial divisions of geeks, jocks, and burn-outs mean so much. It’s juvenile. Grow up.
Then Chuck decided to provoke fans again the very next day.
hey so this thread summoned some real ding-dongs https://t.co/SZrMDUhZuL
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) June 3, 2018
It’s always only a matter of time before the bullies play victim. Chuck may still be going on and on, I just can’t keep up with it all.
There’s much, much more. Read the whole thing at Itchy’s blog here here.
Hey Chuck Wendig and Rian Johnson, I’m not a “white overweight manbaby basement dweller” and I hated The Last Jedi. How can that be possible? Where is Ja Rule so we can make sense of this? @rianjohnson
— AfterTheLastJedi (IndyNcognito) (@AfterLastJedi) June 3, 2018
Only a few days after this story, Chuck went off… again, because Rose Tico actress, Kelly Marie Tran, reportedly deleted a bunch of her Instagram posts because she was getting some mean comments. As of this writing, there has been no confirmation that the actress left Instagram. It could have been boredom, frustration, bullying, or may have even been because of her newest NDA with Lucasfilm now that the third installment of the new trilogy has begun filming. But… “muh narrative!!”
