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Star Wars 9 and Last Jedi shock: Will THIS Luke image and news make fan backlash WORSE?
Hamill is seen as the keeper of the Star Wars flame by many fans. His open and sometimes coded disapproval of The Last Jedi reinforced the popular backlash view that Luke’s behaviour was out of character and undermined the entire franchise. The angry fans blame Rian Johnson and Kathleen Kennedy for what they percieve as […]
Dolce & Gabbana beg for forgiveness after ‘racist’ ad triggers backlash in China
The founders of Italian fashion house Dolce & Gabbana have apologized to China, after a ‘racist’ ad saw the company dumped by Chinese retailers and boycotted across Chinese social media. In a video posted to Chinese social network Weibo on Friday, Domenico Dolce and Steffano Gabbana begged for forgiveness from the Chinese, who are responsible […]
Riverdale season 3 spoilers: ‘So dumb’ Fans BACKLASH after show fails to air again
Riverdale season three has marked quite a change in the show’s tone, yet fans have seemingly been loving it nonetheless. The CW hit show has been bringing more supernatural elements in and its led some fans to speculate that it could have something to do with The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. The Netflix show has […]
Beauty and the Backlash: Disney’s Modern Princess Problem
From Snow White dolls to Cinderella remakes, Disney’s princess franchise brings in billions of dollars—and has drawn critics for promoting outdated notions of femininity. Employees debate: How do you keep the princess franchise relevant without alienating fans of the classic characters?
Barking mad: IKEA faces online backlash over ‘sexist’ Facebook post ‘comparing’ women to pet dogs
IKEA’s Russian branch has got itself in hot water over a Facebook ad that some users saw as comparing women to dogs and purveying sexist stereotypes. The company deleted the post and apologized after the outcry. The controversial post featured a Jack Russell terrier dog sitting at a table in in front of a serving […]
Star Wars 9: Mark Hamill makes THIS declaration after wading in on Last Jedi Luke backlash
The most recent Star Wars movie did divisive things with Luke; and Mark has been quite forward in saying how he himself initially struggled to get his head around it. But now? He’s made it known that he will no longer be offering up his opinions via Twitter. One fan asked him if he thought […]
Star Wars writer FIRED by Disney over tweets: Fan backlash gets really nasty
Wendig wrote the best-selling Star Wars; Aftermath trilogy, which fills in the gaps that lead up to the events of The Force Awakens. He also wrote a novelisation of that movie. He was currently mid-way through a five-part miniseries Shadow of Vader when he was summarily fired. He revealed the news on Twitter is a […]
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales: There’s going to be an ‘enormous backlash’ against Donald Trump’s lies
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales thinks there is going to be an “enormous backlash” against Donald Trump’s lies. He said the US president is a “very talented man” and deserves credit, but the truth could eventually catch up with him come the 2020 election. Wales said his website WikiTribune is still finding its feet and is on […]
Physics ‘invented by men’? Scientist faces backlash after ‘highly offensive’ talk on gender bias
A senior scientist at Pisa University has sparked anger following a talk he gave on the role of women in physics at Cern, the European nuclear research centre, in which he said that physics was “invented and built by men”. Responding to the backlash, Cern released a statement which said the talk given by Prof […]
