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Amandla Stenberg Wasn't Shocked by The Acolyte's Cancellation, Reflects on 'Rampage of Vitriol' Around the Show


https://www.ign.com/articles/amandla-stenberg-wasnt-shocked-by-the-acolytes-cancellation-reflects-on-rampage-of-vitriol-around-the-show

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Such nonsense. If people like a show they'll keep watching it. They won't stop because people were saying bad things about it on the internet. Acolyte did decently with its first episode but it rapidly declined straight from there.

Always blaming the toxic male fans when these shows fail. Women don't watch them either, even though they are being made to feminist specifications.

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toxic fans is why we can't have good things

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Oh, I know.

If all the big entertainment sites and "don't call them woke" people are ripping something on social media, I just can't watch. It's ruined for me.

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i've never seen the show or even watched a trailer, it has a good cast so i will watch eventually , its star wars how bad can it be?

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Star wars has always been a male dominated show & fanbase. Boys don't relate to ugly feminist women characters and they never will, no matter how hard they push it. That's why it failed.

The vitriol is about a beloved franchise being hijacked by far leftist hacks who are used to picking peanuts out of kathleen kennedy's shit rather than making something worthwhile like star wars.

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She makes a fair point about the racism beginning as soon as the show was announced, before a single episode had aired.

Plus the (non) lesbian witches rubbish was driven home hard before the episode had even aired, which would rile up those seeking to be riled up before they'd even watched it (which they weren't going to do due to the diverse casting anyway 😂)!

All in all probably 50% of the episodes were good. No better, no worse than any of the other recent Disney Star Wars series.

But I'm not sure if the review bombing is really what killed this or maybe just more viewer apathy with Disney+ and the Star Wars show. I guess we'll see when that Skeleton Crew (which looks like an absolute car crash) comes out...

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But no racism toward the Andor series and it's multicultural cast or Rogue One. It's very very strange.

Also, there are never any examples shown other than a couple of hand-picked tweets with zero engagement.

Sounds a bit like girl who cried wolf. Narcissist. Can't admit her show was bad.

Maybe she has PTSD from her time on Hunger Games, when the girls and women were very racist about her character Ru not being a blonde white girl.

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/some-hunger-games-fans-upset-character-rue-black-flna560267

She's projecting that onto Star Wars fans and her head is so much in a bubble, that she thinks all Star Wars fans are white, from the USA, obsessed with USA politics like she is, and she hates white people because she's racist.

Her show was terrible, she was terrible, it cost a mega fortune to make with nothing to show on screen, the worldwide fans didn't watch it, the casuals didn't watch it, the "new audience" they wanted didn't watch it, the worldwide Disney+ subscribers did not watch it.

Why can't she just admit that instead of blaming a boogeyman "alt right" USA people for it's failure when they are supposed to be a very small minority.

Disney+ subscribers rejected this dreck. The end.

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I'm not sure if you meant to reply to me or just the thread in general as you didn't really seem to make any counter points to what I was saying.

The closest I can make out was:-
"But no racism toward the Andor series..."
Which is nice but irrelevant to what I was saying about THIS show facing racism as soon as it was announced.

But as I said, I'm really not sure if you were replying to me or just howling at the moon of the OP...

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"Which is nice but irrelevant to what I was saying about THIS show facing racism as soon as it was announced."

It's completely relevant. Andor, Ashoka, Mandalorian, Book of Boba Fett. The previous Star Wars shows. How could that not be relevant?

No racism to be found with a multicultural cast, just like The Acolyte has a multicultural cast with probably more white people in positive roles than Andor, but seemingly, the Acolyte was the only one that faced "racism" from alt right USA people.

THIS shows racism was never proven anyway, I've yet to see complaints about the race of cast members. It's just heresy from people desperately looking for excuses as to why the show failed horribly, and a go to for Disney when they are not confident of their product and need to deflect criticism.

All the complaints from reviews i've seen go into detail as why the show wasn't good. Story telling, script, acting.


Like I said, Amandla Dumberg is a racist narcissist trapped in her own USA politics obsessed bubble, and projecting her own past trauma with Hunger Games fans and their horrible racism which has been documented and proven.

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/some-hunger-games-fans-upset-character-rue-black-flna560267

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It's completely relevant. Andor, Ashoka, Mandalorian, Book of Boba Fett. The previous Star Wars shows. How could that not be relevant?

Because I never mentioned them. I just said she a point about this show facing racism as soon as the cast was announced.

I think what you're trying to do is raise a complete separate point that there wasn't much racism raised against some other shows and therefore there must be some other reason for the show failing. Which is fine if you want to do so but nothing to do with what I said...

I even made another point like yours myself, namely that it may just have been viewer apathy.

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If you can't figure out the relevancy, you are lost, my friend. Like I said, the previous Star Wars shows with a multicultural cast did not suffer racism on the multicultural cast members. Only the Acolyte which is very very strange that this one was chosen by the racists and not the others.

>I just said she a point about this show facing racism as soon as the cast was announced.

Where, when? Where is the evidence?

I'm yet to see anybody provide any concrete evidence, only heresy about boogeymen. Especially evidence of a "RAMPAGE" of alt rights on a massive scale.

Do you actually take stock in anything this narcissistic moron says? She's delusional from sniffing her own farts and lives in a millionaires bubble.

And in the past, whenever the clickbait rags magic up a "racism" story they only provide the odd tweet that had little engagement, and probably fabricated by themselves so they can post their usual rage bait articles as they are more likely to get clicks for their almost bankrupt news website.

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I explained why there was no relevance.

You are talking about something else which, like I said, is fine but nothing to do with what I said. I only engaged here as I wasn't sure if you'd mistakenly replied to my post rather than the OP.

But given that you are wilfully ignoring the distinction I made, there is nothing further I can add here..

And by the way, you don't have to look much further than this board before it'd even come out to to find examples of what you claim can't be seen. e.g:-
https://moviechat.org/tt12262202/The-Acolyte/65f9c4739d1d404956d8418c/Official-Trailer-June-4

"oh well, lots of blacks and women, no white men at all..."

But, whatever.

Good day to you Sir 👍

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>I explained why there was no relevance.

Your explanation was "I didn't mention them". Doesn't mean there is no relevance.

They are direct comparisons.

>And by the way, you don't have to look much further than this board

Aaah a cherry-picked troll reply on a website only you and I saw. I wonder how far you had to dig to find that?

The very next reply complains about the racism.......

"Target audience is Star Wars fans, not the KKK!"

Still yet to prove there was a "RAMPAGE" of racism on this show, when the other Star Wars shows in direct comparison didn't face any.

I can see why you hang on Amandla Dumbergs every word. Peas in a pod.

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Aaah a cherry-picked troll reply on a website only you and I saw. I wonder how far you had to dig to find that?

Well, I had to go back a few pages to find comments from before the show had aired. Where else exactly was I supposed to find them? That was 100% the point of looking there... And there are others back there if you want to look.

And again, whether or not this show faced racism before it aired has nothing to do with other shows.

Sure, as I already said, you can make your comparisons and that's fine. But you are making a completely distinct point. You are saying "Well how come this show failed when these other shows had diverse casting?", which is great and all but not what I replied to.

Whether these other shows did have 0% complaints about woke casting or whatever, has absolutely no relevance to her saying that THIS show faced racism as soon as it was announced.

That is a completely separate point and one, which it seems, you are unable to comprehend. So there is literally nothing further I can add here other than repeating the same point over again when you inevitably reply, frothing at the mouth, with "BUT, BUT!! These other shows had non whites in them didn't they?", so I'm now finished here.

I appreciate that you were late to the party and are obviously still very much excited about this so hopefully you will find someone else who wishes to engage with your anger but for me, it's a final:-

Good day to you Sir 👍

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>Well, I had to go back a few pages to find comments from before the show had aired. Where else exactly was I supposed to find them?

Well, if it was a RAMPAGE from the racists who are prevalent within the fans, it shouldn't be that hard. Basically, you proved my point.

It's not that hard to find the same examples from Hunger Games fans on Ru,

https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/04/02/race-representation-and-reactions-to-the-hunger-games/

https://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/28/showbiz/movies/hunger-games-black-actors/index.html

https://www.ebony.com/another-hunger-games-movie-another-fan-based-racial-controversy-981/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X4MkZYVylk

https://www.reddit.com/r/Hungergames/comments/gio1u4/if_you_thought_rue_was_white_heres_what_i_think/

>And again, whether or not this show faced racism before it aired has nothing to do with other shows.

Oh, but it does in direct comparison to the last few Star Wars shows with multicultural casts that saw zero racism in the criticisms.

It's a very, very relevant point.

>That is a completely separate point and one, which it seems, you are unable to comprehend.

No, I just haven't been satisfied by your feeble attempt of convincing me. You could try harder other than "i didn't reply to that".

It's a direct comparison to the last two Star Wars shows. It doesn't matter if your reply included them or not. The comparison is drawn. I drew it. You failed to counter it and began to blabber on about not mentioning it, which doesn't disprove the comparison.

>I appreciate that you were

Taken hook line and stinker from the word of a narcissistic moron with a victim complex and a person desperately looking for answers in a strange world where her show bombed and faced criticism over how bad it was. Add to that PTSD from her time on Hunger Games with actual racist fans, fuelling her hate for white people and fandoms.

Because, of course the reason this world wide show bombed is racism from right wing Trump lovers with a Disney+ subscription, it can't be because the show is bad. No it just can't be!

Just like the racism the two last Star Wars shows faced with a multicultural cast.......oh wait.

Andor and Ashoka didn't face any. Must be selective racism.

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Every time a woke show flops these woke ass clowns jump on the "Well it must be the toxic incel fans fault" band wagon. Maybe if the woke writers could keep their politics out of the workplace instead of obnoxiously shoving them down peoples throats they might actually produce something worth watching.

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Well she did sing about "making white people cry", in her racist tic tok video.

But the white people crying ended up being Leslye Headland and the Disney execs. Oops wrong white people!

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🤣 You win today's internet 🏆

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Halle Berry never called customers racist after "Catwoman" bombed. She even accepted a Razzie award for that movie in person. Halle Berry is a "class act," unlike Amandla. Amandla needs to be like Halle when she grows up.

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Haha, brilliant 😂.

Does Halle Berry now officially complete the holy trinity?

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Who’s Amandla Stenberg?

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This racist actress who hates white people

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That doesn’t really help to narrow it down nowadays.

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Reminds me of this tiktok I watched on the subject recently: https://www.tiktok.com/@thegiacobra/video/7383408259085946154?lang=en

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