Social media juggernaut Facebook has removed the social group that was organized to sabotageBlack Pantherand it’sRotten Tomatoes audience score. The group is the same one claiming responsibility for tankingThe Last Jedi’s Rotten Tomatoes score, which was pretty successful if we’re to believe them and not Rotten Tomatoes, who claim there was no site tampering. Controversy began to spread when one of the members bragged on another site that they were responsible for the poor user scores for the latestStar Warsmovie. The group decided that they were going to do the same with all upcoming Disney releases.
TheDown With Disney’s Treatment of Franchisesand its Fanboys group was removed by Facebook today after it gained national attention. The page was reportedly started by a self-proclaimed member of the alt-right, who did not agree with the way the DCEU gets treated in the press when compared to Marvel and Disney projects. The group started an online event for its followers to take over Rotten Tomatoes user score section and floodBlack Pantherwith negative reviews, which gained over 4,000 people.
On the event page, the leader of the group posted a manifesto of sorts and took time to pat himself on the back for the successful attack onThe Last Jedi. The statement on the event page says that Disney’s business practices are part of the reason why the DCEU gets such bad press. In addition, the page claims that Disney pays off critics. you’re able to read the statement in full below.
Black Pantherdirector Ryan Coogler wasasked about the planto sabotage the user ratings and he revealed that it didn’t bother him. Instead, he insisted that he wanted as many people as possible from different backgrounds to see the movie. Additionally, Rotten Tomatoes released a statement saying that they would block any reviews with “hate speech,” but there’s really nothing the site can do with people logging on to write negative reviews.
In the end, it doesn’t matter since the Down With Disney group was taken down by Facebook. However, the group will more than likely be pretty angry that they were shut down and will head over to Reddit or 4chan to continue their campaign to publicly trash anything Disney related. Whilereviews aren’t the deciding factorfor everybody when they go see movies, the negative user scores compared to critical praise does begin to add up and add to controversy. You can read about Facebook shutting theBlack Panther/Disney hate page down via Variety.
