Fake Accounts Were Behind The Snydercut Push - Report
With San Diego Comic-Con this week, Warner Bros. will more than likely have blockbuster announcements and reveals about their upcoming DC films. With Black Adam hitting theaters and the Aquaman sequel early next year, there is still a slate of movies that fans are still talking about almost 10 years since they first started.
The Snyderverse became a fan-frenzied movement with hashtags revolving around the release of Zack Snyder's cut of the Justice League movie that he stepped away from after a family tragedy. Reports later came out with surrogate director Joss Whedon being extremely difficult to work with from actors to workers on set, even allegations of spouting racist rhetoric. With the eventual release of the Snydercut Justice League movie on HBO Max, fans then demanded that Snyder's established canon be restored to the DCEU, which resulted in another viral hashtag. But how authentic was the demand?
A report by Rolling Stone claims that they spoke to more than 20 people involved with both edits of the Justice League movie, with most of them believing it was Snyder himself behind the campaign. «Zack was like a Lex Luthor wreaking havoc,» one source told them.
It was looking at the numbers and subsequent drop-off that questions really began to surge. The RestoreTheSnyderVerse hashtag went viral and tracked more than a million tweets in a single day. Then, dropped down to just 40,000.
«You don't see a drop like that organically,» a digital marketing executive told Rolling Stone. They mentioned it had the signs of «weaponizing a movement.» This is where things took a more intense turn.
Behind the scenes, Snyder wasn't satiated and wanted to remove both Geoff Johns' and Jon Berg's names from his cut of the movie as this
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