YouTube likes and dislikes do not prove anything.
Just like selectively edited videos do not prove anything.
At this stage I feel like you just don’t want them to prove anything. How can 10s of thousands of people liking videos that talk about disliking TLJ not mean that these same people also dislike the movie? It’s like saying the 67,000 people that have signed that petition doesn’t prove that 67,000 people dislike the movie? At this point it just feels like you simply don’t want to acknowledge that there is a large amount of genuine negativity towards the movie.
All I was initially trying to say is that I’ve seen enough signs everywhere to indicate there is a significant percentage of the audience that didn’t like the movie. With YouTube I was able to actually provide some numbers so it was the example I used. If you want to ignore that and live in a world where you think it’s just a few haters brewing up all this controversy then so be it.
You still haven’t directly answered my original post either that you wrongly attributed to me trying to somehow say this proved the movie was bad? And now that I’ve directly confronted you on the matter I get the feeling you’re going to start attacking me rather than just admitting you posted wrongly and moving on.
I get it that you liked the movie, that’s fine though I don’t understand how you do, much like you dont understand how I would place TLJ below the prequels. I’m not trying to change your mind on the movie, instead just pointing out not to discredit the fact there are many that dislike the movie and that there is evidence out there to support this if you are willing to see it.
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No one doubts that a bunch of people dislike the movie and go to great lenghts to show it. Signing a petition? Because you don’t like a movie? Really?
That’s still no sign that these people are a “significante percentage of the audience”. Only a small fraction of people who watched the movie also want to watch a youtube review of it, and only a small fraction of people who watch a youtube video care enough to hit the like or dislike button. Someone who generally liked the movie, but isn’t entirely happy with some parts will definitely not watch a bunch of reviews and feel the need to let others know about his opinion of that opinion of the movie. And people who loved the movie are probably busy watching it again, instead of wasting their time on youtube going through negative reviews and hitting dislike. And finally, people like or dislike youtube videos for more reasons than just agreeing with the opinion of the video. I can see people who like the movie upvote even a negative review of TLJ, like RLM’s, for appreciating that it actually talked about the movie and avoided this toxic “Disney has an anti-men agenda” bullcrap.