Collider is easily one of the biggest movie websites on the internet. It’s almost impossible to go searching up for movie news or information without running into a link, a video, a news article, or a reference to Collider, especially their podcast shows. Well, over the years Collider started getting woke via the Collider Videos off-shoot, and now some of those shows have gone broke.
The news was made on January 2nd, 2020 via the official Collider.com website. They had a post dedicated to some of the “changes” they were making to the Collider Video brand.
The article is short and to the point, and the big revelation of the shows being axed were mentioned in the opening paragraph, where they wrote…
“Today, our video production will be refocused towards expanding high-quality, scripted, unscripted and celebrity-driven content. This means more emphasis on popular series like Comic Book Shopping and The Deepfake Saga, but we also have to say goodbye to some beloved series. We will be ceasing production on Movie Talk, Collider Live, Jedi Council, and Heroes, and we cannot begin to express the depth of our gratitude to our loyal fans and to those who worked tirelessly on these productions.”
There was a droll live-stream by Roxy posted on her YouTube channel, which discussed Collider Live being axed by the higher-ups.
The short gist of it is that she tells fans that there’s no reason to be mad and that it was just business.
The news was quickly picked up by Jeremy from Geeks & Gamers, who regularly highlights some of the wokeness that mainstream media and big tech have been spewing regarding geek culture.
In the video he explains how the shows being cut were part of Collider’s culture of siding against the fans, and constantly embracing the pro-corporate, pro-social (in)justice keyboard warrior stance.
This comes just a year after Complex sold the site to Marc Fernandez, after picking up the Collider brand back in January of 2015, as reported by Hollywood Reporter.
Since then, the Collider brand has tumbled down that deep, dark, dank dormitory of cultural degeneracy.
They regularly defended awful, anti-fandom films like Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and hyped awful movies that made it onto the Get Woke, Go Broke Master List, such as Charlie’s Angels. They even did an episode defending it after the film completely bombed out during its opening weekend back in mid-November, 2019.
Rightfully so, a good portion of the audience downvoted the video because Collider was shilling for woke propaganda, and opted to buy into the narrative of blaming men for not going out to see the movie, when women were well within their right to go support that trash fire, but didn’t.
The Collider Video outfits were also prone to throwing fans under the bus, mostly on the podcasts.
YouTuber Film Gob collected some clips from when the podcast crew at Collider were quick to misrepresent the Kelly Marie Tran situation. In reality she decided to stop using Instagram because she didn’t get it, but the goblins in media tried to spin it that she was harassed offline.
There was also Collider egging on those within Hollywood to embrace the attacks on the fandom, calling it “toxic fandom”.
A less-than-masculine reporter for Collider, complete with painted fingernails (proving he probably guzzles down an unhealthy amount of soy) pulled Mission Impossible: Fallout director Christopher McQuarrie into a discussion about “toxicity” in fandom to further throw fans under the bus.
Thankfully, McQuarrie didn’t fall into the baited trap set by Collider, and opted to explain the reasoning behind fans being angered at their favorite childhood properties being ravaged and creatively molested by the hands of cinematic philanderers.
But of, course, getting woke means going broke.
And now we get to add some of Collider’s properties to the ever-expanding Get Woke, Go Broke Master List.
(Thanks for the news tip KotakuInAction 2)
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