Walter Rhein
1 min readApr 27, 2023

--

It does. Although with the way AI is being exposed lately, I think a lot of the online stuff is fabricated. I've been dealing with false comments for years. I get enough of them that you can kind of see when it wasn't written by a human being. It's always bothered me the way the Disney-owned media will gleefully report stories about actors in failing films who are being harassed. I guess that's sympathy press. I'm not saying fan harassment doesn't happen at all, but I think the toxic fandom narrative isn't as it appears. Until we track down where every single comment came from, we don't really know what the real situation is. Of course, I don't think anybody should be treated like that... but if these attacks are launched by studio executives in an attempt to save their job when a film fails, we need to know that. I guess it's a new form of "throwing people under the bus"... call it "throwing your actors under the bots."

--

--

Walter Rhein
Walter Rhein

Written by Walter Rhein

Certified English and physics teacher. Editor, journalist, illustrator and novelist. walterrhein@gmail.com

No responses yet