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Source: Marvel
Source: Marvel
UPDATE: The Down With Disney page that had created the event to sabotage Black Panther's Rotten Tomatoes score has been taken down, according to a report from Huffington Post.
Prior to the alt-right Facebook group page being removed, Huffington Post had informed Black Panther director Ryan Cooler of the event but he was ultimately unfazed by it.
"For me, I'm looking forward to everybody seeing the film," Coogler said. "I'm really looking forward to sharing the film with audiences regardless of what their political views are…that's kind of where I [stand on that]."
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An alt-right Facebook group who gained attention for lowering the Rotten Tomatoes score of The Last Jedi late last year has now set its sight on the already well-received Black Panther.
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The group, Down With Disney's Treatment of Franchises and its Fanboys, has created an event titled "Give Black Panther a Rotten Audience Score on Rotten Tomatoes," with the following synopsis:
"Given the massive success of the audience review rigging on the Rotten Tomatoes site for 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi,' and due to the sudden rise in those disgruntled with Disney business practices, among other factors, especially due to the corporate manipulations which created falsified bad press for the DCEU [DC Extended Universe], I feel that it’s time to strike back at all those under Disney and bring down the house of mouse’s actions for paying off the critics that hurt DC Comics on film and for other parties affected by them," wrote the event creator.I'll be making events like this for 'Infinity War' and the Netflix shows etc so we can rally together to truly make a difference…If you want to spread spoilers to Marvel fanboys, use this event as a platform to inform us of targets!"
The group doesn't seem to have a political agenda, their frustrations stemming from Disney (who distributes both The Last Jedi and Black Panther) allegedly planting bad reviews or paying critics for negative press for DCEU (DC Extended Universe) films. But the moderator of the group previously referred to himself as alt-right according to a report from Huffington Post.
In that same report the moderator, who remained anonymous in speaking with the publication, claimed that he and others a part of the group tanked The Last Jedi's score because of the inclusion of more female characters, as well as Oscar Isaac's Poe Dameron being a "victim of the anti-mansplaining movement."
"Thanks to friends of mine who taught me a thing or two about Bot Accounts, I used them to create this audience score through Facebook accounts created that subsequently logged into Rotten Tomatoes who rigged this score and still keep it dropping," the group's moderator said.
