I don't really know what to say here besides those tweets were really disturbing. The fact that Disney hired him knowing this is very questionable judgement on their part, but I don't see this as them being hypocrites either. He was caught up in this in 2012 and they stuck by him. Well in 2012, GotG wasn't even out yet and it was small potatoes to defend him back then. No big deal from Disney's perspective, just a slap on the wrist.
This was a big strike though. The thing is, Disney doesn't like to have a bad look from a PR perspective. So the fact that he's the guy who is at the forefront of what is now - six years later - a pretty popular franchise in the enormous MCU, made it easy for Disney to bring out the axe. They had to separate themselves from him.
The online twitter culture today of trying to get people fired over every little tweet is more to blame here than anything. People blow things wildly out of proportion - however, most people probably hadn't seen those tweets before and they were all incredibly graphic and in poor taste. It would've been a bad look to stick by him whereas six years ago it was a lot easier to get away with because things didn't spread so fast to where there was a twitter wildfire within minutes.
In conclusion, Twitter has gotten out of control and has far too many gang-up tendencies these days.
This was a big strike though. The thing is, Disney doesn't like to have a bad look from a PR perspective. So the fact that he's the guy who is at the forefront of what is now - six years later - a pretty popular franchise in the enormous MCU, made it easy for Disney to bring out the axe. They had to separate themselves from him.
The online twitter culture today of trying to get people fired over every little tweet is more to blame here than anything. People blow things wildly out of proportion - however, most people probably hadn't seen those tweets before and they were all incredibly graphic and in poor taste. It would've been a bad look to stick by him whereas six years ago it was a lot easier to get away with because things didn't spread so fast to where there was a twitter wildfire within minutes.
In conclusion, Twitter has gotten out of control and has far too many gang-up tendencies these days.
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