Well that didn’t take long. Fan film ‘Vader: Shards of the Past’ has now been “manually claimed” by Disney on YouTube to monetise and collect money from for themselves. This is after Star Wars Theory approached Lucasfilm beforehand, clearing it all through them with the stipulation of not being allowed to make any money from it himself via YouTube monetisation, crowd funding, etc.
The video trended at #2 on YouTube in its first days of release with around 3-4 million views and is now at 6.3 million. It just goes to show the money hungry corporate body that Disney are, who would rather profit from a little fan film they had no involvement in making past officially allowing it to happen, instead of building good will and relationships with the fandom. A fandom it is clear they are trying to fleece through nostalgia with every chance they get yet want to demean and kill of OT characters in order to prop up their new ones.
Anyway here is a video on the matter:
And from SWT himself:
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