I think about this exact moment in time a lot. This happened around when I was really starting to pay serious attention to online film criticism. I distinctly remember when Rotten Tomatoes disabled comments on reviews, and why. It’s not games or comic books... it’s cultural.https://twitter.com/mattzollerseitz/status/1152382943840604165 …
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Replying to @DontAskJeeves @mattzollerseitz
Maybe, but it's most pronounced in specific realms of culture that young straight white men had come to feel a particular level of entitlement to: games, comics, comic book and Star Wars movies, etc.
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Replying to @carolynmichelle @mattzollerseitz
A lot of it certainly concentrated there! But I think the way aggregate sites market themselves helps to foster these attitudes of entitlement by reducing criticism to a numbers game. We talk a lot about the commodification of art, but not the commodification of art criticism.
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Oh, absolutely. That focus on numbers definitely helps perpetuate the bizarre notion of "objectivity" in reviews, something these groups often champion.
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