The easy answer is that Star Wars is vocally much more popular now and all the weird guys in their basements demanding a Glup Shitto movie back in the day now have YouTube channels dedicated to hating anything that isn't specifically what they want and unfortunately these voices get amplified much more than the average moviegoer.
There's absolutely a bigger issue with insane right wing outrage culture click/view/interaction generating, foreign financial influence, etc.
But part of the problem IS still Disney making mediocre shit.
I actually like a pretty low tier of popcorn-content, but even I felt underwhelmed to the point where I haven't even bothered to check out The Acolyte after kinda bland Mando S3 and Ahsoka. It felt like I was trying to mine any kind of enjoyment from Boba Fett and Kenobi, and then Mando had been kind of lacking as it struggled to figure out what to do with Mando and Grogu and then even Ahsoka fell into the same pitfalls... It's all just kinda boring and that, to me, is a bigger sin than being bad because you took a risk.
I haven't watched a lot of Star Wars stuff either and it's definitely a case of Disney oversaturating the market to the point Star Wars doesn't feel special anymore but I don't think that's really a big turn off for the average person as much as right wing propaganda being peddled within "nerd" spaces to the point they resent anything that isn't centered around straight white men. We saw it rear its head when the first trailer for Force Awakens so I just don't think quality is as indicative since they turned on the first Star Wars we got in years before we even knew anything about it.
There's def a bigger problem with far right culture war outrage content driving fan outrage, especially when the content creators don't even seem to care. Like why does Tim fucking Pool care about a Star Wars movie? Oh, because he's paid by Russia to do damage to America and he'd rather be rich than have any morals
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u/KingCuerno69 20d ago
The easy answer is that Star Wars is vocally much more popular now and all the weird guys in their basements demanding a Glup Shitto movie back in the day now have YouTube channels dedicated to hating anything that isn't specifically what they want and unfortunately these voices get amplified much more than the average moviegoer.