12-20-2023, 07:49 PM
excuse me a minute while I rage at dumb shit
I was listening to an older podcast, and a reference was made to kevin smith's he-man reboot, which was in the middle of combusting as everyone hated it, since he lied that the show was "all about he-man" and then proceeded to kill him in the first episode, and then again at the end of part 1, instead making teela the main character
kevin was doing a live show at the time and blocked all viewer comments and chat, ranting at his own audience for not liking the bait-and-switch he made
so I look up this dumb fucking show that everyone in the world has forgotten about
wikipedia makes no mention of its negative reception
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_the_Universe:_Revelation
on the talk page they go around and around for years, smugly blocking all attempts to mention that the show was poorly received, even though many other articles talk about poor audience reception without issue
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Masters_of_the_Universe:_Revelation
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literally the only lasting impact this show has left on the world is the various news stories, videos and documentation about how it was poorly received, and you're not allowed to document that on wikipedia
there are tons of short-sighted morons who consider wikipedia to basically be the arbiter of truth, and that carries over into how it is treated on the broader internet, with information showing up in sidebars and snippets all over, burying whatever context they don't want you to see
the he-man show is shit and insignificant, but this situation is emblematic of all sorts of similar scenarios that have taken place for decades now
I was listening to an older podcast, and a reference was made to kevin smith's he-man reboot, which was in the middle of combusting as everyone hated it, since he lied that the show was "all about he-man" and then proceeded to kill him in the first episode, and then again at the end of part 1, instead making teela the main character
kevin was doing a live show at the time and blocked all viewer comments and chat, ranting at his own audience for not liking the bait-and-switch he made
so I look up this dumb fucking show that everyone in the world has forgotten about
wikipedia makes no mention of its negative reception
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_the_Universe:_Revelation
on the talk page they go around and around for years, smugly blocking all attempts to mention that the show was poorly received, even though many other articles talk about poor audience reception without issue
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Masters_of_the_Universe:_Revelation
Quote:Audience reception is notable when WP:RELIABLESOURCES agree they are, for example in the case of review-bombs, of which we have several cases across Wikipedia describing them. See for example Star Wars: The Last Jedi#Audience_reception, Watchmen (TV_series)#Reception and The Last of Us Part II#Audience_response. Loganmac (talk) 09:05, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
literally the only lasting impact this show has left on the world is the various news stories, videos and documentation about how it was poorly received, and you're not allowed to document that on wikipedia
there are tons of short-sighted morons who consider wikipedia to basically be the arbiter of truth, and that carries over into how it is treated on the broader internet, with information showing up in sidebars and snippets all over, burying whatever context they don't want you to see
the he-man show is shit and insignificant, but this situation is emblematic of all sorts of similar scenarios that have taken place for decades now
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