A LETTER to KATHLEEN KENNEDY… from STAR WARS' TOXIC FANBASE
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
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A little love note to KATHLEEN KENNEDY after her recent comments about STAR WARS' apparently male-dominated, toxic fanbase.
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Jay, your letter to Kathleen...
Chef's kiss! Excellent! The best verbal middle finger I've heard in a while.
The outfit choice is worth listening to the ad. So that works
i guess manscaped figured out your audience demographics
It's funny. Star Wars NEVER had any issues with race or gender or any of that jazz....................UNTIL DISNEY GOT INVOLVED.
“They” ruined everything….
That's the part that drives me crazy. It was internationally successful why before Disney thinks they needed to "fix things"...
Sigh..
I know right😊
@lukeluke333lukeluke indeed. But what is there to fix? A powerful woman? Already done. Actors of a non-white race? Already done. 😅
This needs to get X’d to the Star Wars fan masses cause it’s true. And it is true, Star Wars never had all these diversity issues until Disney got a hold of the property.
Newsflash: Star Wars fans and nerds everywhere LOVE when they come across girls who are also into nerd culture.
If I find a girl who knows it well enough to say "I know" when I say I love you, I will know that I found the one.
It's tough because as SW fans we're all misogynists who hate women, so quite the conundrum. lol
Swoozie has spoken.
Correct.
@@snarkyjaynah.
I was in an abusive relationship with Disney. I've moved on.
That's the only way to effect change without giving yourself an aneurysm. If the fan base stops buying tickets, subscriptions, and merch, they will be forced to course correct.
@@TheAutumnWind_RN4L or sell the rights so that Disney can do everyone a favor and move on
@@JordanWheeler1999 Sell it to Elon Musk. He seems to want to restore the lore.
@@TheAutumnWind_RN4Lyeah because everything he touches doesn't turn to shit. 😂😂😂
@@LukeJohnson-tw5bo We?
Not everyone is vindictive and spiteful.
😂
As a Black Brazilian man, I want to tell you that your video expresses everything I feel as a fan of this franchise. Thank you so much.
I saw a shill RUclipsr actually state you simply "don't know any better". This is what these ideologues think. Incredible.
"The more you Tighten your Grip, the more Star Systems will Slip Through your Fingers."
Princes Lea, Episode 4, 1977.
And Carrie said it with a crispy British accent. 😘👌
Word!
This is my absolute favorite comment on this whole Disney debacle
Nice quote..
“If you keep watching, they’ll just keep making it.”
-Bruce McCullough
As a wise man once said
"when it comes to fans, it is a fan's right to have whatever opinion they want to have, and people are going to be upset... I don't necessarily consider that toxic. I just consider that passion." - Henry Cavill.
That's why Netflix hates Henry Cavill. He knows what fans want and fights back against executives who want to push bad product.
@@andakin117 very true, i guess they didn't realise The Witcher series was only popular because of him.
Henry Cavil is one of the few people that didn't lose their head in hollywood by the BS they sell.
Henry Cavill is the GOAT 😢
Mr Cavill is indeed a wiseman.
Them calling the fans toxic for not liking that garbage show is not going to make people watch it
I would if they paid me a million an episode😂
They just need to explain it away to their bosses.
@@warwolf88That’s ridiculous! I’ll watch for $100K/episode. USD, of course.
@@JoeOvercoat well good thing I don't care what u think
I will 😢. It really made me think, I've been such a jerk 😏...
Henry Cavill said it best: "When it comes to fans, it is a fan's right to have whatever opinion they want to have. People are going to be upset especially when you're talking about books or games because you're never going to be the exact person they had in their head or who they played in Witcher 3 for example. I don't necessarily consider that toxic, I just consider that passionate."
Even when people were complaining about the show and its changes, Henry Cavill never once insulted the fans or berated them for it. There's a reason fans hold him in such high regard even if they don't necessarily like his projects. He understands fandom and just wants to tell the best story possible and express as much as he can with the characters.
Disney seems to want full adulation and a pat on the back for doing the barest of minimums and they can't even do that right.
Yeah the eggheads in charge of this garbage I bet never went to a comic-con or star wars convention and sat across from fans and thought, "what do the fans want?"
I don't like superhero movies and have never seen the Witches, but I'd stand with Cavill every time. He gets it. Cos he's a fan.
Cavill seems an absolutely top guy, but maybe he hasn't read the room: if you don't sign up to the Hollywood agenda, you get sidelined.
Makes sense considering he and Gina Carano have a relationship even to this day
Disney needs to get out of the phase of producing what they want. They need to get into the phase of producing what the audience wants. Yes, throw in diversity. Yes, please do things that are different from past franchise installments. But don't sacrifice good story and character arcs for it.
"Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made" - JRR Tolkien
evil creates new stuff all the time, wtf kind of quote is that
Exactly. Good point about Lando. As a kid, after Empire, everyone LOVED Lando. No one even realized he was black. He was just a well created and played character.
And this is exactly the point the vast majority of movies/TV series fans are asking for: well written plots and characters.
Lando was one of my favorite action figures as a kid. He was just one of the heroes as far as I was concerned.
Yeah when Chewie grabbed him by the neck it made Chewie look like a simpleton. Lando was the most believable character of them all.
Well said!! I grew up with Star wars and have seen it turned into garbage.
Good point!
As an old (53 years) white, male, star wars fan, good job Jay, couldn’t have said it better myself.
They wanted to trade in us aging Gen Xers for female Zoomers, but ended up making **everyone** hate them.
And...u t not old
@@thevideonaut6152bro is older than star wars
@@RussianBear42069six years old when it came out and I saw it in theaters
As a toxic white man… Go Niners
“House of the Dragon” has all colors, cultures, females/males leads and is ridiculously better written/acted than The Acolyte. Your excuses don’t fly with the audience Disney. You’re the problem Disney.
100% so many shows that when you look at them would be ultra woke, even the original game of thrones, but the show was awesome and the story played well, two men slept together NO ONE CARED , WAKE UP DISNEY IT IS YOU
Not to mention, the lead actor goes by they/them, and yet somehow show is successful. Crazy how that works.
Disney has managed to make so many fans of Star Wars completely apathetic. You don’t kill a franchise by angering the fans, you kill it by making them not care.
Exactly. Look what happened to Game of Thrones. THE most talked about and biggest pop culture tv ever and then it disappeared overnight because noone cared anymore.
@@naverz08 - Star Wars is a far bigger fan base too. I don’t remember GoT/HBO people being as hostile to their fans as Disney has been since they took over the franchise. They just released a crap product at the end - especially the final season. House of the Dragon was pretty good but I haven’t seen the new season yet and people seem to like and enjoy it.
If you release good material people will watch. If you don’t, then they won’t. If you insult your customers and tell them it isn’t for them, people will move on to other things. If I went to a restaurant and they insulted me and brought me the wrong food and told me the steak isn’t for me and I get a tofu salad, I wouldn’t pay for it and I would never go back. I especially wouldn’t even enter the establishment if they had a giant sign on their door that said straight white men cannot eat here and this food is not for you. I’ll take my business elsewhere.
Well said. You hear it all the time: "If you don't like it, don't watch!" Well, that's exactly what we do. The anger comes from the fact that Disney spent billions $$$ on this crap, when they could have made something sooo good! Give us stories from the Old Republic or the EU. Nope! Sorry Star Wars fans. The message was more important than profits.
@@t.s.adrian8785 They can't do it, because they lack talented people who actually can build a solid, interesting story. Ale they have is activists, so they just pander.
To paraphrase a great poet: "This is the way a franchise ends, not with a bang but a whimper..."
SWEET BABY JESUS!! That was THE most EPIC and PERFECT Takedown of Kennedy and her cronies PERIOD. You covered all their talking points, assumptions, flaws, and merged them into a seamless, well spoken, well thought out master class of scriptwriting and videography. BRAVO.👏🏾🙏🏾
literally everything aws in here !!
Literally
Yeah, it was incredibly well worded and spoken.
I don't think the younger generations understand just how significant Star Wars was. It literally changed the world.
I personally saw it EIGHT TIMES during its initial release. The first time I had to stand in line with my parents for 12 hours to get in. The 5th time probably took 4-5 hours. The 8th was more like 1-2 hours and this was MONTHS after it had been released. Yes like 3-4 months after opening it was still impossible to get in without standing in line. The lines, particularly for the first couple months, wrapped around the movie theaters multiple times forming rings of people waiting just to buy tickets. It was insane. And EVERYONE was doing it, it wasn't just nerds & geeks standing in those lines because everyone wanted to see it.
When Star Wars first came out there weren't actually many movie theaters and almost all of them were single screen theaters (maybe a few double screens). Its directly because of Star Wars that multi-plex theaters were born! Between Star Wars and Empire there was a massive effort to build more theaters. When Empire rolled out it opened in new, small (3-5 screen) multi-plexes. My first viewing of Empire still required standing in line 3 hours.
The fans are very serious about Star Wars. Particularly the old-school ones, it takes dedication to stand in line 8+ hours to see a movie and then repeat that multiple times.
I remember a friend who literally had converted his entire garage into building and storing Star Wars related things (he had a 6 foot diameter Millennium Falcon hanging in the middle). And this was a guy that people would not consider a nerd/geek - he just loved SW that much.
And never once was there anything toxic and unfriendly. Even after standing in line for hours in the hot sun people were still friendly. Star Wars fans were united in their love of the franchise. If you loved SW it didn't matter who you were or what you did otherwise.
These are the people these idiotic, clueless interlopers are calling "toxic fans". They should really take a look in the mirror because all this toxicity they keep talking about - its just projection. They are the ones what are toxic and divisive. Not only are they destroying the IP but they are literally making EVERYTHING they touch worse with no actual benefit. How they still have jobs is truly beyond comprehension.
Wow! Thanks for sharing your story, it's really awesome to hear that!
You're quite right. I don't think I can adequately explain to anyone who didn't see Star Wars in the theater in 1977 just how game-changing it was. Not only had there not been any science fiction movies with the same level of action, but consumer technology at the time was comparatively primitive - most electronics you'd find in an American home were simply updated versions of things from the '50s. So to have such an exciting glimpse into the future - even though it was "a long time ago" - was groundbreaking.
Star Wars was a cultural watershed moment . . . now, it's nothing more than just another category on D+.
I usually do not like long comments because I have to read a comment completely before I like it.
But I left a like because I agree with what you have said. I hope other people take the time to read your entire comment as well
@@real5609 nah
The younger generation has bluey so I think everyone is alright not needing to read your whole ass paragraph
“When you’re turning it into the planet destroying empire we’ve been rebelling against since 1977” bars! Well said
I'll send her 2 letters. An F and a U.
Legendary
Racist
@@lethalbaconbacon2079 uh?
"Hmmmm... Two page fax, first page is a giant F.... not looking good." Rrrrrreeeenereeeener eeeeeerrrrrr.....
lol
I’m sixty one now. In May 1977 I was thirteen. I was already a fan of scifi like Star Trek, Space:1999, 2001, Logan’s Run, Planet of the Apes, Westworld (1973), Silent Running and so on. We watched ALL of these films and TV shows religiously. When it was released, It was as though Star Wars was made for me. I’m an old white guy but I have loved and given to, and supported this franchise since day one. In 1980 my Mom had a broken ankle, we STILL went to the cinema to watch The Empire Strikes Back and she was on crutches. In 1983 I worked an all night shift, went home, changed clothes and drove to the theater, got in line for three hours to see Return of the Jedi opening day on no sleep. 1999, my daughter was a tiny baby and we got a sitter to go see Phantom Menace opening weekend. These films had a history with me and my family. These are valuable memories to me. Now…I don’t care what they do. I guess I’m just part of the TOXIC fan base. The ones that do not matter to Kathleen Kennedy and her minions. They have destroyed Star Wars for me and that is a real shame.
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Almost the exact same story here... Love Sci-fi and still read up to 70 Sci-fi books alone each year.... that has become my refuge because the turds behind the debacle of Star Wars, CANNOT touch my books to ruin them like they have shat upon everything else. There is no punishment too severe, no apology too profuse to save them anymore. *My* Star Wars ended with Rogue One and possibly Solo. I was physically sick during the Eighth film and will not and have not seen the last one or any of the other shows. I don't care what Di$nay does anymore, their entire Brand has become thoroughly toxic and even the strongest disinfectants or cleaners cannot remove the taint that has imbued all of Di$nay. Peace and a salute to you brither fan!
I feel you brother. I’m 27 and SW raised my brother and I more than our parents did. Along with plenty of other stories. Watching the majority of what I hold dear to be hijacked and corrupted makes my soul burn. Tolkien, SW, the Witcher, Doctor Who, DC Comics. I could go on with how it’s all fallen. Although, we will always have our memories and the originals.
Same age, same opinion! It‘s soooo sad 😳
your story strikes a chord,but the root of this collapse in star wars is george lucas.If he had completed the films in the early to late 1980s we wouldn't be having this conversation.He stepped away in 1983,when he returned he couldn't find it,The bond films have remained fresh and relevant because there was never more than about 4 or 5 years between each new film,the mess we have today is all on lucas,his stepping away in 1983 destroyed the rhythm of his work
I am a female who grew up with original movies. I loved the diverse characters; the world building and storytelling. I introduced my now 28yr son, we even went to the prequels together this year to celebrate that. Now Disney tell us we are am not their preferred audience; we should not have an opinion; we should both just shut up and love it. I don’t love it and I am no longer financing your disdain Disney.
Now lets breakout the blurays - thankfully I grabbed those when Disney told me they couldn’t be bothered making them for their Australian customers anymore (apparently countries outside America is also on their hit list).
All my Star Wars movie on VHS and DVDs are all pre-Disney. I have to check to see if the animated ones are on the Disney label. No problem, that was before Disney and Bob Igor decided to destroy this great franchise.
Any country with a majority white population is going to be targeted by Disney for EXclusion.
Preach on sister!
Thank you for being our voice!
Disney: "I feel a huge distrubance in The Farce; as if millions of SW fans were cancelling their subscriptions"
Leia Organa. Padmé Amidala. Ahsoka Tano. Jyn Erso. Asajj Ventress. Cara Dune. Mara Jade. Jaina Solo. Satele Shan. Bastila Shan. Bo-Katan Kryze. Satine Kryze. Aayla Secura. Shaak Ti. Mon Mothma. Sabine Wren. Hera Syndulla. Darth Talon. Maris Brood. Cere Junda. Merrin. Yaddle. Nomi Sunrider.
There are so many more that I could keep listing. All beloved FEMALE characters of the ""toxic misogynist"" Star Wars fanbase. I will never understand why people claim the majority of hatred is due to a female lead. Mind boggling.
Especially since the same fans like the movies alien/aliens, which have an excellent female lead, and also the ones that had a black lead like Blade, if the hatred didn't come from that, but because even a monkey taught sign language would cobble together better stories than the Mouse. I'm here manspleining, good that Snarky Jay says how things are, but I doubt Kathy would believe even if she heard!
@@eerolaiho3310sigourney weaver is an amazing actress. She has a lot of range. Very believable in those movies. It is why those movies did so well.
@@markdevlin150 She's amazing! "Get away from her, you B****!"
Mission Vao, Juhani, Meetra Surik, Brianna, and that redhead Mandalorian bounty hunter chick turned Jedi but all in all your correct every single one of those women are beloved by the entire fandom including me
Darth Traya! One of my favorite characters!
Came here from Tyrone Magnus. Preach on Sister. I'm in my 40s now. My mother got me into Star Wars as a kid, home recording off of tv so I could watch those VHS tapes they almost fell apart. Breaking i don't know how many speed rewinders because I watched these films on repeat. My mother god rest her soul. Appreciated these films, but she loved that I loved them. I can still remember sitting on the wood floor head up watching the tv Listening to Master Yoda talk to Luke, and giggling every time Yoda Made a joke, or laughed. I loved the Original Films, and I adore the Prequels, because I love the Jedi. And the Prequels gave me more lore, story, and world building for the Jedi, and the Sith. To me that is Star Wars. The Jedi and the Sith. Good vs Black. In a black and white setting because that is how George Lucas setup his story.
This isn't GoT. It is Science Fantasy. In Fantasy, its Good vs Evil, no agendas, no narratives to push. Just a hero's journey, the dark times, and the struggle to lead to a well earned Triumphant End. We don't need woke, because George Lucas gave us a great story, with diversity, and well written characters, and in essence was "woke" before that was ever even a thing. Stop trying to put your stamp on things and give us what we, the people that line your pockets want, or like Snark Jay said. One day I too might be one of those people cheering when this IP that I love so much, fails.
Same with me. I'm a 35 year old female, and it was my mom who showed me and my little brother at ages 8 & 6 Star Wars on VHS. Then she brought us to see The Phantom Menace in theaters. I even dressed as Princess Leia for Halloween and my brother Darth Vader. My only complaint about George Lucas Star Wars is that awkward kiss between Luke & Leia.
My mom has passed in 2015 before The Force Awakens came out, and she would not have anything good to say about it.
me too.. I came here from Tyrone
Also got here via Tyrone.
Same… thanks to Tyrone Magnus. Cheers Snarky Jay completely agree on all your beautifully articulated points. Disney gots to go
This video deserves thunderous applause.
if Disney wants to turn this ship around, they have to fire Kennedy. She has hired people who obviously don’t care about Star Wars, and encouraged them to make a mockery of what was a beloved fictional universe
The reason they won't do that is because Bob Iger thinks she's the greatest thing since Disneyland.
They will never fire KK.
Disney won’t turn this ship around, because they don’t care what damage they do to the “Star Wars“ brand. It is nothing more to them than a vehicle with a built-in, good reputation and popularity, which they intend to milk until they destroy it completely, in order to push forward, their twisted, perverted, explicitly sexist, woke racist, blatantly misandristic sociopolitical/sociosexual identity politics agenda, and narrative.
They will ring every last bit of utility out of the franchise as a medium for attempting to shove their elite, extremist propaganda down the throats of as many people as they possibly can.
And because so many people vehemently object, and when their actions result in massive negative criticism and tsunami-size negative backlash, they will cloak themselves in eternal victim, hood, and oppression, and attack the fans/the audience, blaming the failure that was caused by their own incompetence, on the people that they expected to watch it, and to pay obeisance to “The Message”, but didn’t.
I'd take it even further and suggest she's purposefully hired people who aggressively hate Star Wars.
Also, they'll never fire her because she has high power blackmail material. My guess, a certain island-owning socialite's "black book" with a lot high ranking Disney names in it.
@@artawhirler Or she has dirt on him.
"Unlike the Mandalorian said, this is NOT the way!" ... pure gold! 🙂
(Spoken in T’Challa)
“Get this Woman a Lightsaber”
☝️🤘👍
You're damn right!
57 year old, Mexican, socialist, male here........I HATE what Kathleen Kennedy has done to Star Wars. We ALWAYS had representation. We ALWAYS had strong females, strong people of color and respect of the story.
I almost never comment on youtube videos, but this video struck me in my core. I have such fond memories of going to the special edition movies and later the prequels. I saw each at least five times on release. For the opening of phantom menace my friends and I waited in line overnight. We developed a system so we could all keep our places in line. We became the “rebel response team” and everyone in line was given a badge so that they could leave to get food and come back, their spot saved. We all became friends during these events. ALL of us, male, female, black, white, gay, straight. It did not matter, because we were all of us rebels responding. Star Wars for me, is ruined. Thank you Kathleen Kennedy for invalidating my hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars spent on this franchise over the years. I deeply resent the implication that my age, sexuality, and gender somehow makes me less of a fan, because Star Wars has ALWAYS been about making friends, making memories, and all of us, being included. Disney has missed the mark again and again. I’m done. They have killed it. It’s dead. They hate me. I’m out!
Man, I feel for you.
But fear not. At some point, the damage will be so irreparable that Disney, in one of their episodic shakeups (let's say, when Bob Iger has to retire, in a year or 2, and new guy is coming in), one of the first thing they'll do is either to boot Kathleen out for all her crimes against humanity, or to sell Lucasfilm (for a pittance of what they bought it) to another studio with someone at the head of it who's actually a Star Wars fan (I can't imagine they're rare, we just fell on THE ONE person who wanted to actively tank it to the ground), and actually steer it into a better direction.
Sure, the damage will have been done by then, the core trio will be done and dusted, but who knows ?
I've already seen some REALLY promising episodes of what Star Wars COULD be from anthologies like the animated series of shorts Visions (seriously, there are some episodes in there that felt like pilot episodes of their own shows ! THIS is what happens when you trust smaller but passionate and talented studios who grew up with the franchise and understood the assignment and took their limited time to play with the franchise as THE mission of their career ! Unlike the current hacks at Disney/Lucasfilm itself, they certainly didn't take it for granted, and godammit, IT SHOWED !), and Mandalorian (at least season 1 and parts of 2) and especially Andor showed us that there are so many more stories that could be told in this universe.
It might still take a few years, and a lot of outlandish conditions need to be met first, but I'm optimistic that the magic in the Galaxy far away can still be rekindled.
I feel for you too. That was well said and I agree it may take time but some good studio far far away will fix this for us someday and hopefully soon !!😂
What implication? She outright said it. And why would we go where we aren't wanted to see something that is less about what we enjoy than about some message we wanted to escape from in a fantasy world we used to love?
I love how Disney just keeps pointing the finger at fans instead of reflecting on what’s actually the problem.
liberals can never admit they are wrong
That’s just the left as a whole. Ruin everything they touch and blame everyone else while never accept responsibility for anything they do because they think they are too perfect to ever make a single mistake.
Always remember, when your point your finger on someone, three of your own fingers will point back at _you._ 😉
Disney knows exactly what the problem is, but they are so determined to push their activism, they don' care about the losses.
This is how narcissistic people act.
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a 54 year old female here who in 1977 was in an Italian cinema with her brother to see Star Wars: thank you!!!
Beata te, dev'essere stata una figata. A quei tempi Guerre Stellari era un'innovazione. Anche io ho iniziato con la trilogia originale perché entrambi i miei genitori erano fan (papà da giovane era la copia di Luke, stesso taglio di capelli) ma la mia generazione è cresciuta coi prequel (successo solo per fan, eravamo in pochi e venivamo visti come strani quando giocavamo a fare i jedi )
La Disney ha rovinato tutto e lo fa con qualunque cosa ultimamente.
Alle nuove generazioni viene data solo me*da ipocrita che si contraddice da sola, sotto una pioggia di insulti al pubblico. Sta gentaccia schifosa deve sparire
Snarky Jay, it really took a lot to destroy STAR WARS. As THE CRITICAL DRINKER said: "At this point, hearing about SW is like getting a letter from an X girlfriend who gained 50 pounds. There's a mild interest. But you just don't care anymore."
This has to be the greatest take ever. I applaud you for this. I’m speechless. Thank you for this.
Thanks so much!
if everyone you meet hates you... then maybe they aren't all wrong.
Maybe it's you.
That's what the voices tell me at the mental health hospital.
Spaceballs: How many assholes we got on this ship anyhow?
@@Skyfire-x you're surrounded!
You run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. You run into assholes all day, you're the asshole.
In my life it’s actually them 😂
T.M. sent me .Thanks for speaking for "us" STARWARS
FANS. Thank you
Thank you Owen!!
As a toxic white Hispanic man, I am no longer a “STAR WARS FAN” I don’t like my entertainers to tell me how to live my life or what to believe in. I canceled Disney and will NOT watch anything WOKE. Since entertainers have become political hacks I don’t watch their content anymore. I was a moviegoer since the first time I laid my eyes on Bruce Lee, I was only 7 but became enamored with movies. I moved on I watch RUclips movies from film makers from other continents.
Disney just loves a strong, empowered and intelligent woman taking charge, so this letter should be impossible for Kathy to not notice. RIGHT??!
Except all of the other female fans she has trampled pretending they don't exist, 'marginalizing' them if you will.
@@Oblithian It's funny how she claims women in Star Wars (characters and fans alike) are 'marginalized'...yet she's the one marginalizing us! We fans of the XX sex do not want "strong female empowerment" thrown in our faces as if it never existed. Of course it did! The OG Star WArs was very much female-driven without stomping on the fellas' toes. I'm pretty sure that's one thing that drew male fans, too.
Unless it's Gina Carano.
Now I truly know how Obi-Wan felt. Disney was the chosen one. They were supposed to bring balance, not leave us in darkness.
Obi-Wan wasn’t speaking to Anakin, he was speaking to the Star Wars franchise. When Anakin died and became Darth Vader, this tar wars franchise basically died with him.
Best comment. I’m going to steal it.
THIS! This right here! Please make this go viral everyone! Disney needs an Enema!
My son recently watched Alien and Aliens 2 with me. He seemed confused: "I thought there were no kick-ass female characters in older films?"
By the way, he bailed from the Acolyte early, soon after my daughter, who said she was bored. My wife didn't even bother. So who exactly is the new audience that KK is recruiting, to replace older, white guys like me?
Imagine purchasing Barbie and making 90% of your entertainment about Ken and his pals? How well would that sell? ……exactly
Imagine a Barbie movie where Ken is Gay getting backshots from all his buddies only to find out Barbie was scissoring her besties all this time!
Yeah thats the future unfortunatly 😂
Not ken but his never before seen brother jen who is better in every way and marginalized. Jen's true goal is to shame all things that like pink until it is outlawed in barbie land.
...or turning it into GI Joe. The girls would love it, right?
So true and it's astounding how many people just don't get this. 'Cos you know...misogyny or something...
THIS could NOT have been said any better! You FRICKEN nailed IT young lady! Well done. Well said. 👏👏👏
I accept my toxicity whole heartedly..... what you gonna do KK?
"Hate" and "toxicity" are simply anything reflecting reality these days. The bubble of unreality that is Hollyweird promotes degeneracy and parasitizes the innocence of youth. It's classic Marxist poison.
Yup, if my standards are considered toxic… then so be it.
To quote one of my favorite poems, by Stephen Crane: "I will, then, be a toad."
Well thought, prepared and presented... excellent work! I am a 68 years old original 77 Star Wars fan... Thanks Snarky Jay for your eloquent and passionate letter to KK / absolutely right!
Jay, you're letter was so dignified, so impassioned, so TRUE... I almost wept! Your plea is the same plea shared by millions of Star Wars fans. Thank you for finding, and saying, the words that I cannot.
WOW!!! This was a powerful explanation!!! ALL VALID POINTS!!! I SALUTE YOU SNARKYJ!!! 40yr Star Wars fan!!!
This letter to Kennedy is so fantastic that I'm going to include it in my Star Wars collection. You are incredible!
nice !
As the Sith say, "Peace is a lie, there is only passion..." Fans are passionate for sure. Loved the commercial, btw.
You make an extremely good point regarding the fanbase.
They would not have wanted to buy star wars if it didn't have a fanbase .
I remember when I was 7 the local radio station was doing an old style reading of Star Wars live on air for promoting The Empire Strikes Back. After it was over they said Darth Vader was going to be live in studio the next day and we could come and meet him. I ran and begged my parents to take me. They did and to this day I still remember it like it was yester day. I walked up to him in in fear and aww. He picked me up and said " You will make a fine Storm Trooper one day." Best day of my life. Those are the type memories that made this franchise special. They are ruining it for our kids to have those type memories. That's why were mad. In hind sight though Vader was kind of right cause I did eventually join the Army guess he was my first recruiter🙂.
There’s no toxic fans. Only bad shows and movies.
@@SUP-h9d you’re confusing love and passion for toxicity
There is no toxic fans. first reply is highly confused, and little bit slow
@@SUP-h9d And your source wasn't the same? It's almost as if you guys just have different opinions on the matter.
Exactly. It's a ridiculous narrative that Disney has so far gotten way too much mileage with.
@@SUP-h9dyeah.. I aint reading all that
MIC DROP!!!! I can not say say thank you enough for this. I think it is what EVERY Star Wars fan has been wanting to say to her for a VERY long time although maybe a little more eloquently.. May the fore stay with you. 😃
To use a pizza restaurant analogy: Way back, Giorgio Lucasio created Rebel Pizza and for decades appealed to customers far and wide. The customers would go out of their way to recommend it to all their friends and family. They left 5 star reviews on Yelp. The day came when Giorgio wanted to retire, so he sold the restaurant to an ownership group that pledged to continue making great pizzas. Over time, the customers noticed the pizzas weren't as great as they had been when Giorgio ran the shop. The customers had truly had enough when the pizzas they ordered turned out to be English breakfast: Beans on toast. The Rebel Pizza managers insisted it was still pizza. So the unhappy customers did what they could: They spoke out and left unflattering reviews. "Beans on toast isn't pizza".Then went shopping for pizza elsewhere.
What's wrong with an English breakfast ya racist😂😂😂
Beautiful
It was spun and tossed about but just came out rather flat 😂
These people act as if they purchased a famous and profitable steak house chain, show up wearing "Beef is Murder" t-shirts, change the menu to vegan, and now are complaining that all customers are gone and leaving 1/2 stars on Yelp! Are they that dense? This borders Black Hole density levels!
I'm done with Star Wars. I've stopped wasting my money on garbage movies, Shows etc. But I have to thank them because I have much more money to spend on me and other movies
The fact that the Acolyte gets such low audience score is just proof that even after so many years of Disney attacking both the franchise and the fan base, that the fans still love and haven’t given up hope on Star Wars. The fans are screaming,yelling, and begging Disney to STOP killing Star Wars with a slow and painful death. It is only a matter of time when the fans will say, “enough is enough” and put down Star Wars for good.
What made me really angry was when KK said, “the fans don’t own Star Wars.” Which just confirms my belief that KK doesn’t know how the real world works. When I was growing up my father taught me a little thing known as “money talks”. He thought me that a company my own the rights to a movie, show, game, or other products, but the consumer is the true owner. If the consumer does not like what the company is doing, the consumer will not spend money. But if the love what is being done, the will spend money on the product and even things attached to said project. In this case the money is talking, but Disney is not listening.
This all comes down to this ancient idea that was highly valued back in the day, but it’s almost extinct today. Personal Responsibility. Disney would blame others, angry white males, for their failures, instead of taking personal responsibility. If Disney could just take personal responsibility and be like, “Yeah we made garbage, so what can we do to make this right or even better?” That day, sadly, is never coming.
They need to just stop ...its dead
Disney destroyed star wars, it's beyond saving, everyone outside Disney knows the Rey movie will be a failure, and most of us like Daisey ridley, it's not her fault she is handed a bad story . what a waste what a shame, I wonder how much money Disney is willing to burn. I have to imagine the entire Disney brand is turning into sour milk for a lot of people . I grew up with Disney, I love all the movies, I saw Aladin in the theatre like 3 times. Those days are over, good stories are over, RIP Disney
I don't really like her. She's kind of vapid and uninteresting as an actress, but then again it's really hard to like a Mary Sue.
The sooner you folks realize that this is all planned. The better you'll be.
@@joshuastoughton1693 It's a neomarxist march through the institutions. These are useful idiots doing their assigned task.
Yeah I hated Rey but when I saw Daisy Ridley in other movies I realized it's not her acting but really bad dialogue and a shit plot cortesy of Disney.
Personally, I think she should resign from the next Rei movie to try and protect her career - but it's also possibly the most she'll ever get paid in her life. So easy for me to say...
It’s one of the biggest falls in pop culture history. People not only have to cancel their D+ subscriptions - they have to stop going to the parks, the cruises and anything that has the big D attached to it to finally give them the downfall they deserve at this point.
Well said Snarky. Bravo. Take a bow ❤
Beautiful Commentary! As Henry Cavill said There's no Toxic Fandom,It's just passionate Fans
Toxic fans exist, but they are the part of the fan base that supports this shit show instead of the ones that hate it.
I kind do think they exist, they're just not as numerous as Disney would have you believe they are. There's always that one guy who goes too far.
@@MataNui. so why the fk are they focussing on the 1 guy , the 1 guy that is not even online. everyting is perceived. there is nothing online. only disney media talking about ghosts
@@tommymarco9893 I had a different comment but youtube filtered it. For Disney it's just a convenient scapegoat for when someone criticizes them. I'm only saying I think some exist. Truth be told I forgot my own point.
It's so refreshing to see a smart RUclipsr who actually exposes sharp arguments and who's not driven by the woke/politically correct narrative.
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Good lord Jay, your delivery was over the top and this is coming from an old 64 year old white guy who fell in love with Star Wars in the theatre in 1977. Thank you for voicing what so much of us fell.
This is so true ! Thanks for speaking out loud words I with the reach we don't have !
Every starwars fan needs to like and comment on this video until Disney can’t ignore it. It explains all of the problems perfectly
First, we are not just fans, we are CUSTOMERS!!!!!!!! Disney preferred that we were just consumers, enjoying our bowl of gruel. As customers, we are allowed to enjoy or complain about the products and services. Hey Disney, try to remember that the customer is always right and take a damn hint.
They thought Star Wars fans would be like football fans who stick with their team no matter how bad it gets. So, they could sell out for DEI/ESG points and the fans would pay for it, and consume the product.
These self-righteous people will never take the hint. Self-absorbed narcissists who think we are all garbage.
What a legend! So well said, thank you for being our voice ❤
Thank you for representing my voice!! You just gained a new subscriber. Keep it up!!!!!
They confuse passion with toxicity, and dislike with hatred. She’s exactly right! We are on the very edge of apathy, all we need is one push and the game is over
Best way to speak to them is to cancel your Disney+ subscription. They do not have any incentive to listen to you, if they're making enough off of you anyways.
Jay - you killed it, my family all listened and we 100% whole heartily agree with your sentiment!
To paraphrase what Aladdin once said:
'We gave you your power, and we can take it away!
Face it, Disney! You're still just second best!"
Came here from the great "Tyrone Magnus". You have no idea how eloquent this video is!. Amazing. I am 43 year old recently ritired Soldier who first came into star wars as an Army brat while my father was stationed in Germany in the height of the cold war. Diversity,, and Bigotry were never part of the military vocabulary or moral upbringing. When i grew up and saw SW for the first time in 1984 all of the Stories and themes and the characters were its foundation in our beloved Galaxy far far away! It has become something so disorganized (or reorganized) under disney and KK that Apathy is a massively true statement. Love this and keep going!
The fact that Star Wars has not been able to course correct since TLJ backlash shows either 1) gross incompetence which means everyone involved (save for Favreau since Disney sabotaged him) should be fired or 2) an unwillingness to course correct because the plan is do exactly what they're doing. Either way, the shareholders have lost billions in value because of the approach taken by Disney, and there needs to be a reckoning.
2)
it is now obvious
Thanks Jay for always speaking the truth 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
After watching The Acolyte ep.03 I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
Ms. Jay, as an OG fan, I greatly appreciate and admire your incredibly well thought out and concise letter to Kathleen KillLuke Kennedy. You were courteous beyond necessity. This is the most NON-toxic complaint letter I've heard.
This should be put on a scroll and signed by all "toxic" Star Wars fans because this is our Declaration of Independence from Disney! Perfectly said Thomas Jayfferson
I saw what you did there.😅
Nicely done.
@@mrlevittown thank you sir
Snarky Jay is our modern Martin Luther. This our Ninety-Five These or Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Star Wars, Lucasfilm, and Kathleen Kennedy 😀 ✊🤝🙏🤝
@@Hiccuple Our "66 Theses or Disruption of the Power of a Fully Armed and Operational Battle Station"
Yes. I would sign that.
Im 27, seeing my favorite franchises be constantly destroyed by disney among others, has completely inspired me to write my own sci-fi books, and to even become a game developer and slowly build my way up to make games for it.
I've been working on the lore 7 years now and just officially started writing the first words just a few weeks ago. It definitely wont appeal to everybody, but mankind discovered space flight in the medieval times and it has vastly changed the technological progression for all in the setting. It doesnt take place on earth, it has dozens upon dozens of alien races. Man and most races are still using feudal forms of goverment and have nobility deep-rooted in their societal cores. Blending medieval weaponry with sci-fi fantasy. Guns are a scarcity and havent been developed much past simple flintlocks for most space faring nations.
I know it won't ever get anywhere close to starwars levels of excitement or attention, but I will try. All of this is out of spite for Kathleen Kennedy and the sabotagers at Disney. I'm not even alone in this, many have joined me in my efforts and there's hundreds if not thousands doing the same thing I'm doing too. If anything, Disney has taught me that spite might just be the most powerful emotion a human can feel.
Sad thing is we all saw this coming, when "episode 7" came out. We told everyone it would go the way its going now. I just hope something can be done to save what we were once called weirdos and nerds for. I remember being bullied for liking starwars, can we bring that back? I prefer that over what we got going on now.
Great video, I made sure to like and subscribe. Its not much but if a large majority do it then maybe Kathleen can see it herself.
Please write the books and we will read!!!!
Disney wanted everyone to feel the same about Star Wars. They succeeded. Even those of us who LOVE Star Wars; hate it.
I liked SW7... SW8 was where things started going horribly wrong... story terribly stupid and pointless in several ways, Luke ruined (doesn't care, got depressed, etc.), and running out of space gas... no inertia in space?... so let's go off on a side-quest, but don't use hyperspeed unless you're going to aim at a badguy ship, but that was a one in a million chance (????!!!)... stupid.
I saw you on Critical Drinker and decided to check out your content. I very much enjoyed your video - well written, well edited, well spoken and reflects how I'm feeling about Star Wars. Keep up the awesome work!!!
The fanbase has been male oriented since the 70's. What did she expect? Also its her and her management that divided the fanbase with The Last Jedi. Smart people who saw that Disney was pushing identity politics, DEI garbage, a woke narrative, and forced female representation in The Force Awakens checked out then. But a lot stayed seeing where they were gonna take the story with Luke and Rey. We got our answer with TLJ and its been a dumpster fire since. Kathleen Kennedy AND Dave Filoni are to blame along with EVERYONE else working at Disney Lucasfilm for the failure of George Lucas's Star Wars legacy. She was thinking she can turn Star Wars into Barbie lmao.
I believe KK got a pass for the debacle that was The Last Jedi. It was at the time the worst Star Wars production for all the reasons why we hate The Acolyte (minus the LGTBQXYZ messaging). Yet since the movie grossed over $1 billion based on the Star Wars name alone, she clearly did not learn the lesson of a true Star Wars fan scorned. I hope this latest catastrophe is what gives Disney the balls to fire this toxic idiot once and for all.
Disney has ruined Star Wars and Marvel
No they haven't, it's our fault for hating it.....apparently
And Dr. Who. I have a sneaking suspicion they have their fingers in Hasbro as well.
And Pixar
@@nathanielbables8652 You mean the pixar movie that is the 2024 box office leader after 9 days. Totally ruined.
I'd like to go on record that I've hated Disney since the early 90's. Some of us Gen Xers saw the writing on the wall and stopped paying attention (and money) to them a long, long time ago..
My dad introduced me to SW when I was only 5 years old, and I fell in love with it. Reading books and comics as well as playing every video game possible. Watching the movies with him was such a great bonding experience and now as an adult I almost feel embarrassed watching SW with him. I can see how upset he gets with the movies and shows and I feel the same way. Disney has killed SW for me and the only good memory I have of it is before Disney got involved
Wow! Quite literally, all the bases covered. Well done!
I don't want the Star Wars franchise to die, but maybe it has to so that it can be reborn at some point in the future with a fresh start. I don't know. All I do know is that even with the parts that I have liked in current day Star Wars, the overall mishandling of the franchise has damaged it, severely. I hope someone from Disney and LucasFilm sees this video. the points made in this video are so clear and precise that they can't be ignored.
Well said Jay. And thanks for caring about our balls.
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Something very similar is happening with videogames.
Someone at BlackGirlGamers tweeted something like “Hey cis white guys! This isn’t about you and your values!”
i replied basically “actually, it kind of is. To us, videogames are a hobby. To you, videogames are bread and butter. If we decided to move on to card games or something, you’re f***ed”
A lot of those people have a weird obsession with white men, even though almost all the most classic videogames are Japanese.
As a toxic white male who was sitting in a theater in 1977 when that Star Destroyer first entered the screen and ushered in my favorite movie franchise of all time, I have to say, that "Letter" was extremely accurate and well written.
In a sane world, run my market forces, it would be heeded. But Disney is run by Communists now and destroying our heroes, real and fictional, and replacing them with approved heroes is the goal here. Not profit.
R.I.P. Star Wars.
Hang on to your physical media.
As long as we still have that, they can't strip the classics away from us.
We can always watch... and remember...
I was there in 77 too buddy. 10 years old, life-changing experience. I'll never forget.
@aldunlop4622 I was 11.
It sure was. Along with Star Trek, it began a lifetime love of Science Fiction. Little did I know how many great things were still ahead. And unfortunately now, behind...
Disney’s digging a hole they cannot climb out of. We will not forget.
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This is up there with “we will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive!”
I hope you go viral. Thank you for speaking so eloquently for all of us.
Cheers to that!
This was incredible, I doff my cap to you, young lady. What you have said in this video is absolutely spot on. The best 13 minutes and 7 seconds watch I have had in a while.
Send that letter to KK. I will be sharing this video.
The people in charge don't understand or respect the passion of the fans. The 'negative' response en masse is because so many people care. They should appreciate and LISTEN to the feedback so they can educate themselves about WHY people want to buy or not buy your product.
Took the words out of many of the fans mouths. Thank you, Snarky Jay!
Wow snarky, you just verbally bodyslammed Disney and kathy, I'm hugging you in spirit right now
I ONE HUNDRED percent agree with you. I have stated before I've become completely apathetic to Star Wars to the point that nothing it does moving forward will bring me back. Nor will I get my kids involved in it. It's a dead brand.
It's funny they keep calling us racist. Last time I checked, it wasn't the fans who shrunk Jon boyega's picture and covered Chadwick boseman's face on the Chinese posters. Or the fans hiring non white skinned ppl, to use as a shield against legit criticisms. And it wasn't fans who decided to name an Asian character Sol, as in Seoul Korea. I know it's spelled differently, however when you say Sol it sounds like Seoul. My point is they didn't have to name Lee Jung-jae's character Sol. That was a conscience choice.
I AM TOTALLY AGREE ON 1000%!!! This deserve to be shared as much as possible!!!
Me: Watches other YTubers promote ManScape - Meh.. Me: Watches Jay promote ManScape - I want my danger zone to be dangerously smooth (0_O)?
Me: “TAKE MY MONEY!”
Exactly 🤣
Lol, Exactly, whatever she's selling I'm buying
It's all a bit weird a woman promoting it lol
@@manoz6194 I think it makes perfect sense. If a woman you find beautiful, intelligent, talented and funny says "Hey, maybe you should buy this" you're gonna pay attention 👍
Dropping FACTS & KNOWLEDGE. Tell you how bad we took it as fans. We read the books, novels, had all the posters, went to the Comic Cons since the beginning of time b4 some ever knew they existed. We were Cos-Play b4 Cos-Play was invented. We go waaay back! We were the OG's etc. My entire family meaning all of them. Me my children, siblings, uncles, aunts, thier families, grandparents. Ya following me ppl. We had our family reunion 4wks ago all 29 of us & Star Wars was brought up & we all got into a chat about it & we discussed it for about an hr. How the Acolyte ruined it all in 4episodes. We were all in awe. How a franchise could be ruined within 2hr's. My grand dad, who started it ALL by introducing us to Star Wars, just shook his head & said what a mess this world has become. I do not approve any my children watching this LGBTQ the Force is female nonsense. He quoted Yoda when he said the Force is everywhere its all around us. Its not this silliness of Propaganda/Agenda that they are pushing onto the world & my children. This isn't the Star Wars we know & love he said. We ALL looked at each other in silence, and I mean ALL of us & ALL at the same time we picked up our phones & unsubscribed to Disney on the spot! Can't make this up I tell ya. Talk about a moment. When grandpa spoke we LISTENED!!! That was definitely one moment I'll never 4get. So sad because it brought us all together. We Hope Disney sells the franchise to someone who understands its HISTORY & LORE. Till then we say goodbye to an End of an era.
Great story and one no doubt repeated by millions of us.
That's a beautiful letter, Miss Jay 🥹🙏
Preach, sister, preach! Don't ever change,
The moment Star Wars fans stopping "toxic fans" is the moment Star Wars is dead. Great line.