>>kemayo+Gk2
More often, that's just a narrative invented / promulgated by people who won't/can't admit that their movie stinks. Instead of admitting they failed, they go looking for excuses. If you search social media you can find instances of wackjobs saying anything about anybody, so worthless anecdotal evidence for any review-bombing narrative is always easy to find. If your movie had lots of black people, say that it failed because audiences/reviewers are racist (and ignore the existence of movies with similar casts that were very well received). If your movie has lots of women, say that the audiences are sexist. If your movie mostly has white dudes in it, then fall back on some generic insult like...
> *“The studios didn’t invent Rotten Tomatoes, and most of them don’t like it,” says the filmmaker Paul Schrader. “But the system is broken. Audiences are dumber. Normal people don’t go through reviews like they used to. Rotten Tomatoes is something the studios can game. So they do.”
...calling the audiences dumb. There are plenty of smart movies that manage to find smart audiences, but for some reason those smart audiences just don't exist when considering his movie. He can't admit to himself that he doesn't make very good movies, so he prefers to think that everybody else is stupid. Blaming audiences is a coping mechanism for bad artists.