Letter To Disney: The Recent Rumors Have Me Worried

The following is an actual e-mail I sent to Disney Corporate (TWDC.Corp.Communications@Disney.com) and while I do not know if anyone will actually take it seriously, I felt with all the toxic fans being vocal and calming Disney is listening to them, someone needed to try to convey an alternate voice to all the toxic nonsense. I do encourage people to go out and let their voices be heard to counter the loud voices of the other side.

 This is a general letter to the heads of Disney, although I have no idea if this will get to the hands of anyone who can really make a difference and ensure some level of common sense remains with-in Disney as a whole.

There are several youtubers who are right now making some rather frightening claims that I truly hope are just rumors based on their own childish biases.

 

The idea that someone is actually considering redoing the Star Wars sequel trilogy is just insane. Throwing out what was done and replacing it with a new one based off of Lucas’ idea scares me greatly. Those were good movies and have been enjoyed by the vast majority of the fans. On behalf of those fans, I beg you to stop listening to the toxic fans who are being loud as they preach their entitled attitudes. If those fans win, all the rest of us lose, as the franchise will self destruct. These toxic fans were already hating the new movies before they were even made.  Once the announcement came out that Lucas was selling it all to Disney, those toxic fans were already screaming that the franchise was dead without a single film having been made. They never gave it a chance. They created a campaign to ruin the Solo movie by not giving it a chance and creating so much negative press about it without ever seeing it. It has been the toxic fans, such as Overlord DVD, who have launched an anti-Disney campaign from the get go that has been hurting the franchise as a whole. They want to see it burn all because they believe that by becoming part of Disney it all went bad. They are trying to destroy the whole franchise just because they did not get what they wanted.

 

Please, please, please do not give into them.

 

Knowing the history of the Disney and how it has grown out of the known racial issues and sexism that has haunted the company from early on, and has shown itself to be a company devoted to progressive ideas that stay in tune to the ever developing and maturing ideas of our culture. I very much ask that you do not back down from this path. The toxic fans want to call this being ‘woke’ but in reality it is being responsible and promoting socially beneficial ideas. Continue to use LGBTQ+ characters and express inclusiveness at every turn. Be part of the growth in our society. Don’t let those who get upset and offended over having to see reality reflected in our art win. They will always be mad whenever there is change. The only way to make them happy is to get rid of individualism and true creativity, which is the death of entertainment.

 

We are living in unstable times and there are going to be periods of less than desirable profits that have much more to do with trends and uncontrollable aspects of society, as Covid has hurt the entertainment industry as a whole. It would be foolish to reorganize and ignore all the real success without looking at the true aspects that are in play. All giving into loud, toxic fans is going to achieve is to insult the real fan base, the ones who are the key aspect of making any franchise a success.

 

I have spoken my mind now.

 

While I doubt this will get into the hands that need to hear what I have to say, I feel better knowing that in an age where the toxic fans are being loud and destructive, I at least attempted to get a civil, rational voice heard. Star Wars has been a huge part of my life since I can remember and I have remained a fan even when I did like the direction it had gone. Right now I am pleased with what I am seeing, as are the majority of the fans. I hope that those with the real power in your company will do the right thing.

 

A True Fan

Ian Brazee-Cannon

Where's The Harm in Being a Toxic Fan?

 A few posts back I was going off on Doomcock (That name still is so stupid and idiotic. How can he even take himself seriously?) and his his poorly thought out, toxic ideas. If you watch his videos, it becomes clear he is a true toxic fan. He dislikes everything that does not fit with what is clearly a narrow view of the world. It is clear if he were alive at the time of the original Star Trek, he would have hated it because it was too political and was forcing a 'woke' (Yes I know the term did was not in use at the time) narrative down everyone's throat. If he had his present attitude and went to see Star Wars for the first time in 1977, he would have found Leia to be forcing a feminist agenda on us as she talked down to Han Solo who was only trying to rescue her. And the famous cantina scene was clearly just an unneeded political statement about accepting diversity. If you listen to his statements, this is very much the kind of logic he uses to say the modern releases of the franchises are bad, but somehow is unable to see the hypocrisy he is promoting as well as the actual history of those franchise he is ignoring. So many modern fans pretend the political ideas have not been there all along.

I've have stated many times that if Roddenberry were still alive, he would openly call himself a Social Justice Warrior and hold that title as a badge of honor. And then Doomcock (Every time I type that name I want to scream out about how moronic it is) would do a whole video insulting the man and saying he had no idea what Trek is really about and lacks all respect for it.

So why is it that I am doing a post like this.  After all what is the harm if a couple of fans dislike where the franchises are going and want to express their views?

Toxic fans, like Doomcock (Does anyone actually take that name seriously?) are far more harmful than they will admit.

For while everyone is allowed to have their opinions, and the freedom to express them in whatever manner they desire, putting out videos like those Doomcock (Such a sad name) and others put on youtube hurts the franchises more than anything else. They are being childish and encouraging people to not give those franchises a chance. They are telling people not to watch various shows all because they dislike them, not at all considering others might enjoy them. And if others do enjoy them, the toxic fans are putting them down for not sharing their ‘superior’ opinions. The toxic fans are bullying all the fans (Who very often outnumber the toxic fans) who disagree. This does create a group of possible fans, who will not give anything in a franchise a chance, so they will miss out on something they might actually enjoy if they tried. Scaring people away from any franchise as a whole only serves to hurt the actual fans all the more. The toxic fans are not doing anything positive for any of these franchises they continuously attack all because they dislike the directions the franchises have taken. The toxic fans need to wake up and realize they are not the end-all, be-all of fandom and that the whole of the fandoms would be better served if they were to focus on being constructive with their criticism instead of making the childish attacks they seem so fond of.