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List of reasons why Zack Snyder deserves to be defended (thread): https://twitter.com/marawilson/status/1297655215399686145
Zack Snyder is known to be one of the nicest, most unproblematic people in Hollywood, and just about everyone who’s ever worked with him has had only great things to say about him. https://twitter.com/roro_cad/status/1296059425040424960
He is one of the most unique filmmakers working today with an incredible visual style that has earned praise from filmmakers like James Cameron and Christopher Nolan
He’s an ally to women, POC, and the LGBTQ+ community and his films are very inclusive (here’s just a few examples)
He’s very appreciative of his fans and goes out of his way to be interactive with them, creates events to interact with his fans directly, and is even making his fans associate producers on his biggest film just to show how grateful he is to them.
He’s an all around incredible human being, and yet, he gets ridiculed, harassed, and bullied by tons of people, including “professional” film critics, journalists, and many others just because he made movies people didn’t like. https://twitter.com/manofsteel61013/status/962473582097043456
Zack Snyder’s name has now become an easy way to get clout, since making fun of him is a trendy thing to do, and instead of bigger accounts putting a stop to this kind of toxic behavior, they partake in it.
Zack and his family suffered an awful tragedy years ago, when his daughter Autumn commited suicide. And people STILL TO THIS DAY make fun of that tragedy JUST BECAUSE HE MADE MOVIES PEOPLE DIDN’T LIKE. Let that fucking sink in.
To make matters worse, Warner Bros then took advantage of Zack’s tragedy and forced him off his own movie and brought in an abusive creep known as Joss Whedon to bastardize his movie.
But he managed to turn such an awful event in his life into a positive by finally getting to finish a film that he went through a lot of hardship during the making of, and him and his fans raised hundreds of thousand of dollars for Suicide Prevention in honor of his daughter.
Zack Snyder gets a ridiculous amount of hate for literally no reason. Bloggers, journalists, and blue-checkmarks will cherry pick the smallest of things (like what fucking song he features in a trailer ffs) to have an excuse to trash talk Zack Snyder.
And yet, when it comes to all of the harassment he gets from people, including when people make fun of his daughter’s suicide, everyone suddenly goes quiet. Why is that exactly? No clout in being a decent human being?
Then when he finally snaps back after being harassed for so long, people get on his case about him clapping back. Like, are you fucking kidding me? No matter what he does, people ALWAYS find a way to give him shit. It’s toxic and disgusting.
So, @MaraWilson, when you say you don’t understand why people defend Zack Snyder, to put it shortly, this is why: he’s a great guy who doesn’t deserve the abuse he gets. Hollywood needs more people like him, and less people like Joss Whedon and other creeps like him.
He may have a toxic bunch in his fanbase, but that’s not exclusive to Zack Snyder, nor do they represent all of his fans. We’re tired of always having to defend ourselves and defend Zack from people who slander us for attention. It’s really fucking exhausting.
We wish the people who go so out of their way to ridicule and insult Zack Snyder went out of their way to go after the REAL problematic people in Hollywood who deserve all the shit that Zack gets.
No one should receive this amount of abuse for doing their job, but ESPECIALLY not Zack Snyder, who has done absolutely nothing to warrant this kind of behavior. /end
