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In a surprising turn of events, Warner Bros. is hunting down Zack Snyder and his legacy, i.e. DCEU’s Oscar-worthy film,Justice League: Snyder’s Cut (2021) for allegedly accumulating through bots and fake accounts, a toxic movement prior to the release of Snyder’s Cut and fuelling the restoration of SnyderVerse.
A lengthy op-ed-like exclusive feature article onRolling Stonerevealed in brutal strokes, the darker side of the SnyderVerse fandom, and although, at present, the internet is divided between believing if it’s all true or simply a WB smear campaign, the report trudges on in print, under the public eye, and on social media.
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Warner Bros. Launch an Inquiry Into Zack Snyder’s Activity
Prior to the release of Snyder’s Cut, the director had grown restless and impatient over the fruitlessness of his efforts, working under the former wing of the current WarnerMedia. The writers and producers, Geoff Johns and Jon Berg, associated with DCEU and Warner Bros. production ofJustice Leaguewere being called out and Zack Snyder, with support from his wife, Deborah Snyder had apparently asked for their removal.
Also read:WB’s Pathetic Attempt At Burying the Snyderverse Gives It Enough Free Publicity To Be Restored
When this didn’t follow suit, a battle was launched on social media, helming millions of tweets, and thousands of accounts, all getting “activated” and launching the#ReleasetheSnyderCutcampaign to ensure the studio listened. The social media crowd was already abuzz by the time as a result of the incessant radicalizing and influential account activities.
Related article:Why Zack Snyder’s SnyderVerse Fail DCEU
The movement soon became increasingly toxic and members were found sending hate mail and death threats to the writer (Geoff Johns), chairman (Toby Emmerich), and president (Walter Hamada) of the studio along with tagging their families and children. Later reports, collected via digital companies that were hired by a concerned WB to look into the matter, claim that almost 13% of those bots and accounts responsible for influencing public opinion were fake, greatly surpassing the sanctioned limit of 3-5%
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Zack Snyder’s Final Year Working Under the WB Wing
When Zack Snyder’sJustice Leaguefinally saw the light of day in March 2021, an incipient movement#RestoretheSnyderVersegained enough traction to rack up a million tweets in a single day. A digital marketing executive displayed how that could not have been feasible in real-time:
“Just look at the drop: [The hashtag] was trending at a million tweets a day for when they wanted to release the SnyderCut. And it dropped to 40,000 within days. You don’t see a drop like that organically.”
Also read:WarnerMedia’s Ann Sarnoff Reveals if WB Will ‘Restore the SnyderVerse’
According to the executive, this was a stereotypical example of how movements could be easily weaponized. The Rolling Stone reports went on to claim:“So while Snyder had scores of authentic, flesh-and-blood fans, those real stans were amplified by a disproportionate number of bogus accounts.”Moreover —
Source:Rolling Stone
Diya Majumdar
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Diya Majumdar is a Senior Content Writer at FandomWire with over 2000 published articles on the website. Since 2022, she has been working as an entertainment journalist with a special focus on films and pop culture.Among the countless genres and themes of Hollywood, the ones that particularly favor Diya’s tastes include Game of Thrones, DC, and well-aged thrillers and classics.
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