You know you’ve gone too deep into YouTube fandom when you can’t remember which dude with an expensive microphone told you what while speaking straight to camera. Still, earlier this week, that was the particular sarlacc pit I had been sucked into. Word had spread that fans were review-bombing The Acolyte on Rotten Tomatoes and curiosity got the best of me.
First, I watched this dude-with-a-mic video , which claimed that Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy doesn’t like Star Wars fans and “that [Lucasfilm] started attacking the fans before the show even came out; that was to tell you that they knew they had a pile of trash.” Another ballcapped person noted, “The main reason why this show is such a debacle is because it doesn’t feel like Star Wars ..
. Fans like me—longtime fans like us—we’re not buying this crap. This is garbage, and we gotta call 'em out for it.
” After that it was this , which explained that “the very things fans complain about are the very virtue signals the Hollywood establishment has invested so much into they simply can’t accept the audience not responding to them.” In turn, the video’s narrator concluded, the industry blames review-bombing. It’s hard to say that any of the YouTube pundits were “wrong” or “right”—and doing so would be a surefire way to become the subject of the next analysis video .
(Fast-forward to 13:51 to watch my floating head be yelled at by Carrie Fisher .) What I will suggest is this: Every.
