the crazy train is rolling full steam ahead… I’ve never seen so many people praise a fanedit so highly. A really sloppy fanedit no less…
‘Professional Film Editors’ seemingly have a low bar for quality these days…
Despite taking over a year to come up with the Edit, and also a considerable amount of money from people to pay himself a wage to do so throughout the process - to profit from IP he does not own - and potentially endangering the Fan Editing community in doing so.
Solely as a member here, just a few possibilities as to why it may be receiving praise - despite it’s apparent lack of quality…
I imagine a few of the people praising it haven’t seen a Fan Edit since The Phantom Edit? 😉 (and likely don’t know of the existence of communities like ours, FE, FR and others.)
There’ll also likely be those who view and cheer his Edit as ‘sticking it to the man’ (or the people who made TLJ / modern Star Wars films, in this case.)
A few may likely in denial about how bad it apparently is (some people who invest a lot of time, effort and money in something - as well as cheering the ideology of it’s goal - may choose to ignore, downplay or see past it’s faults or shortcomings.)
A few shills? Something that has gained traction with the monetisation of videos and blogs - to the point of an income (and other social media; ie fake reviews & fake accounts - and there’ll always be trolls, WUMs and spammers etc online.)
Linking up with other like-minded sites/channels - cue more additional automatic likes or praise for a project sharing a similar cause / ideology. Even more effective when it’s negative based (people like to repeatedly and continually rage or bash on something they deem offensive or unworthy; especially when in groups - more than people do who enjoy things or just find things okay or mixed etc.)
And some, of course, may just enjoy it for what it is… Ivan Ortega’s wallet likely has is?