Super happy about all the content lately, and I gotta say this, once, about the recent instances of going to the producers:
a) that fandom has complained before when Simone wasn't in 1 production promo for...not her season
b) even Luke fans have taken this approach semi-recently and ironically, they complained when he wasn't in an early production promo for...not his season (talking about the s4 wrap video, way back when, if you remember this happening)
....and for both of these, nothing footage-wise came for them.
I just think it's silly to leave an excessive amount of hate, and beg for your consumption wants.
The marketing team plans what they do, and it's not a day-by-day adjustment by what some people complain about and leave negative feedback for.
c) Kate and Anthony's baby has not been seen on screen yet, so why would they reveal not just a name...but also an image? The polin baby was almost guanteedly announced, because the baby was in the epilogue....in their season, no less. Putting speculation to another instance, I'd almost venture to guess it's the same reason they mentioned Kate and Anthony's wedding after s2 when people were upset there wasn't one (I know ppl hated it, but that was probably their attempt at making people happy. honestly what were they to do by that point?).
d) Shondaland and production are not purposefully not promoting a poc actress. They care about popularity/numbers and who has and can continue to bring the audience in. I think it's time to accept number-wise, season 2 is the least popular season and stop living in a fantasy view of what the viewership was/how the viewing numbers ranked. I saw someone comment, "no one cares about polin; their most popular couple is kanthony."
(*this isn't even hate, i'm just saying because there's so much arguing about the intake of this: Tell me how these results are the immediate eval and already surpassed the others with less time.)
I must admit I find it ironic; you don't get to dangle the white man (Jonathan Bailey) of your season's success over Regé Jean Page, carry out racism to one of the other South Asian actresses on your season, and then cry about Simone being a victim of racism.
Regé Jean Page got tons of press and even got nominated for an Emmy. Luke Newton was receiving the same or less of being shown for promo for years before this. Does this information align with an 'intentional targeting and singling out' narrative for Simone?
e) People are starting to look as unhinged as franchael truthers harassing the comments sections to change Michaela to a man....and look how that worked for them.
f) bonus note: you guys, are almost guaranteed just annoying them and creating less of an interest in providing those individual actors' content (i saw it back with the outrage for Simone in the season 3 announcement, and i thought....well, they're not gonna be very eager to share anything with a rabid fanbase going forward. it might just motivate them towards showing less for the actor (this applies for both Luke and Simone, as well as any other actor).)
g) I wish this fandom wasn't so negative as a whole, and people need to stop taking their frustration out in hating cast members, when they have nothing to do with these points
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