Maybe call it copeing cause I couldn't get a seat with it coming out on my literal birthday but the ending of TADC is gonna be a fucking mess with this early theater release
Not only will Tumblr become borderline unusable for me and everyone else for 2 weeks because spoiler tagging fandom culture is dead (and iron lung proved it) but it's also the end of a series. Something long waited for and anticipated. Id have a positive opinion if it was happening AFTER the YouTube/Netflix wide release (or even at the same time) as a sort of community experience but 99% of the community shouldn't have to avoid all social media for 2 weeks because the people in the theater (1% of the fandom) will not properly tag it or rather, won't stay quiet long enough.
Also, on top of this.... It just.... Ruins it already.
Now it doesn't feel special to anyone who can't be in the theater. I had 5 theaters around me and 4 hrs after the announcement we couldn't find seats. Just 2 of them. No one wants to be the ones left out and now this small selection of fans can see the entire ending of the whole series 2 weeks before everyone else. This isn't a single private screening 2 days before release or even a special teaser trailer just for patrons. These are full theaters sold out. Hundreds to thousands of people. They aren't gonna be quiet about the ending and by the time the show is actually released for the rest of the fandom, the ending will be fucking everywhere. Everyone will already know it, Art will already be made and posted and untagged and it won't be the fun exhilarating finale it could of been because a small portion of the fandom basically paid to get the whole thing leaked to them. Nice job, for the first time in the series, hiding your fucking finale behind a damn paywall. This feels like those nasty AAA gaming titles that let you pay to play the game a few days early.
Why are you treating the finale like a sims creator treats custom content?? Seriously. There's a huge sense of community when a finale is counted down and released. People make watch parties, live react with their friends. It's special because you know you and everyone else who loves this show get to experience the ending all together at the same time. Like closing the chapter all together. Now the YouTube only audience gets to sit for 2 weeks knowing a ton of fans already saw it, it ruins that bonding experience of when the final credits finally role and the big explosion of community and tears and theories and joy outpours. Maybe they couldn't get seats because of a lack of availability( they are in so few places and only the US) or maybe they couldn't afford the tickets that quickly, maybe there's no theaters near them, maybe they couldn't just suddenly take time off work. They've sold out in 6 hrs and scalping has already begun. Some people in the US were still asleep! And just like that, you lost the chance to see the ending to what could be someone's favorite series and have to watch people with the privileges of money or time or luck or job availability to do so go see it 2 weeks before you ever could. How's that fair?
It truly feels like glitch saw what mark achieved and just used it's Netflix connections to attempt the same thing. This whole release feels haphazard and rushed but more than anything it just fucking SCREAMS cash-grab. Oh, we have one of the most anticipated finales of the year? How can we make more money off our fans that isn't constant merch pushes of shitty merch recycling memes from 3 years ago that poke fun at the abusive male protagonist? Oh I know! Lets just copy what Markiplier spent 4 FUCKING YEARS trying to do being shot down by the industry we happily bent our knees to and ruin the ending for 9/10s of our fandom by letting people pay crazy prices for a limited theater run 2 weeks before everyone else!!
Wait no why do the fans suddenly hate us for being transparently greedy and hiding the ending of our most popular series *cough* cash cow*cough* behind a temporary paywall oh fuck oh shit-
I knew they were gonna fuck up the ending, I could feel it in my bones. I called it a week before ep 8's release, I just never could of called it was gonna be like this. Lets see if I'm right the other way too...
