Forum Overview :: RedLetterMedia :: TLJ the latest target of Weaponizing The Haters

[quote name="It's pretty bad"]https://www.polygon.com/2018/10/2/17927554/star-wars-last-jedi-backlash-study-rian-johnson-trolls-russian-bots-political-far-right [quote]209 of the 967 tweets Bay analyzed were negative — meaning about one in five fans were directly sending complaints or insults to Johnson. The rest were positive. It’s of those 209 tweets, however, that 50.9 percent were either politically motivated, trolls or bots. [/quote] Russian trolls [quote]Bay told Polygon that although he expected to find trolls in his research, the most fascinating discovery was how many of the negative comments came from people who generally didn’t care about Star Wars. [/quote] Not anymore[/quote]