#cats 2019 didnt need advertising bc everyone was posting about bald naked idris elba already

[fungi-maestro]

Now that Sony has pulled this stupid stunt a ton of times and their public perception isn’t as good, I think it’s finally time that we talk about how every few years they’ll make a dogshit production choice for publicity reasons.

When it was Cats 2019 people just kind of laughed it off (or as cats fans know. cried it off.) but in the years since then its been like. The Sonic trailers and stuff. If you have an example of this please feel free to add on. But I think we should all be unsurprised that mediocrity or awfulness is used as marketing in the current era. That’s why Marvel feels so comfortable releasing awful unfinished tv shows and movies (among many other reasons). If someone posts about the terrible CGI and writing in She-Hulk or whatever, that’s free publicity! For every 5 people that laugh it off, there will be 4-5 that go and watch it on their streaming service just to see if its as bad as they were told.

Speaking as someone who saw Cats 2019 for the first time specifically because I was told it was awful and ended up becoming weirdly fixated on it, this kind of marketing works. Just be aware. Don’t hatewatch stuff. That’s literally what the companies want you to do.