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There was absolutely zero excuse or reason for those bloggers and critics to have been attacking Zack Snyder with the extreme vitriol that they were then, and there is absolutely zero excuse or reason now. Let it sink in that bloggers were just making jokes about Zack’s dead mother, were saying he deserves bad things to happen to him, saying that the man who runs the DCEU beside his wife, always praises women and expresses the importance of mothers as a focal point throughout the DCEU, hates women. Let it sink in that while he was dealing with the suicide of his daughter, one popular blogger unrepentantly made a claim (later saying it was a joke) that he hates his dead mother, who he is still to this day heartbroken over, who he credits as his hero.
Those bloggers and critics who go to that extreme inhumane length, because Zack’s only crime in their eyes was not making superheroes joke every second, because he was uncompromising in the themes he set up in the franchise. He never hurt anyone. He doesn’t abuse his actresses. He doesn’t degrade female characters or women irl for fun, and doesn’t give up on actors at their lowest. His only crime was being his own storyteller and doing what is his own right- being a director. And instead of these bloggers leaving it be, they chose to hound this man for years.
This man knew they would use his daughter’s suicide as another jab to create false narratives about Justice League, the DCEU, and the man his self. His words. He knew that there would be articles falsely blasting him continuously so he grieved privately and only just released the statement now that Joss will be handling post-production of Justice League. Again, this man’s tragic loss of his daughter by suicide, has to be officially announced because bloggers would take advantage of the situation to be disgusting as usual. That’s on y'all’s conscious. Not whiney trolls in the comments section but you actual popular bloggers and critics who sit on your keyboards acting holier than thou and senseless over comic books and movies.
Make it a lesson to dial back the vitriol altogether. Remember he is only just a man making films. He’s not a monster or a robot with no feelings. You don’t have to like his work, you don’t even have to pretend to like his work for the sake of faux concern suddenly. But what you can do is be quiet. Stop the cruel nonsense. Do better. Be better. And while you are at it, you can consider mental health and what you can do to promote it instead of trying to get likes and clicks by contributing to bandwagon hate because that’s what’s “in” these days.
