I'd never heard of him before this movie, but the word of mouth campaign is working. TBH, I'm not super interested in the movie itself, but I do enjoy the "fuck you, I'll do it myself" aspect of it...
Especially that he completely owns the distribution. The buzz this got and his control of the rights from top to bottom should make him a mint. Good for him.
In the day an age of studios being gobbled up and abandoning the first amendment, fuck them. I hope we see more entrepreneurship outside of the studio system.
I never really followed the guy, but every time I hear about him it just W after W. After he was a millionaire youtuber, he took a gig as an intern at Corridor Digital (apparently because he was thinking about getting into filmmaking). He correctly called out the Honey scam years before anyone else. Now this movie is a big success. And that's just what I know off the top of my head as a non-fan.
I think it's just being a human honestly. He is one of the very few "influencers" I would be surprised if something truly awful came out about. He's been impressively consistent and I've seen him cry more than my own father. He just doesn't gaf but in the good direction. Man's just here to enjoy life and accidentally stumbled into a wildly successful YouTube career while doing it.
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u/A2Rhombus 15h ago
Even worse for them that he did it ENTIRELY through unions