I frequent a TON of movie sites and have noticed the comments section is full of self-entitled vitriol and crap more and more lately. You don't like a movie? Fine. Voice your opinion and vote with your wallet. But now movies like the new all-female Ghostbusters see the cast and crew receiving Twitter death threats because the movie is somehow ruining their life. This is true across all entertainment comment sections from video games to movies to sports. I could never quite put my finger on it, but a writer whom I generally don't like wrote a great piece on the entitlement of fandom that I thought some of you might like. Being a fan used to be something that brought people with like interests together, but now many are acting like the Annie Wilkes character from Misery. Seems many would rather beat what they love into their ideal form then to just let the creators create:
http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2016/05/30/fandom-is-brokenAll of this factors into the strange mindset of how we interact online. We have immediate access to spew any kind of hate at almost anyone instantly, and we probably also have a sense that nobody's actually listening. Or at least I hope that's the case - when director James Gunn defended the Captain America twist someone on his Facebook page left a comment wishing for Gunn's pet to be fed into a wood chipper. You have to hope that the guy thinks he's just muttering under his breath, that Gunn wouldn't actually see it, because the other version of that makes you despair for humanity.
This immediate access to the people who create the stuff we love was supposed to be the greatest thing that ever happened to fandom. If you talk to old TV writers or scifi novelists they'll tell you that they were often creating work in a void, not sure what people thought of what they were doing. It took a lot of effort to send a letter, so the only people who did that were the truly committed, but the general populace was largely silent. You just knew if they were watching or buying. But social media bridged the gap, and creators are no longer working in a void. Instead they're working in some kind of a chamber of screams, where people can and do voice their immediate and often personal displeasure directly and horribly.