Again, this is a dense article that goes into way more detail on how these agencies track a bot or duplicate account versus a real flesh and blood pissed-off fan. The craziest thing in this piece for me is that these firms tracked one of the leading domains calling for the Snyder Cut release back to a now-defunct ad company called My AdGency that promised, “cheap, instant Avatar traffic to your website.”

The RS piece quotes Warner employees convinced Snyder personally hired this agency to whip up support and then stood back and played dumb when this group went from petitions to legitimate harassment and abuse.

Snyder vehemently denies this framing. Even if he’s being honest, the article paints a picture of an upset filmmaker willing to do just about anything to get back at the execs who wronged him, and they back it up with some pretty solid evidence, if not a smoking gun.

Even now, with most of the execs having moved on and Snyder himself now making his movies at Netflix, the fans are still raging, demanding that the studio let David Ayer release his cut of the original “Suicide Squad” and still holding out hope that Snyder himself will come back and “save” the DCEU. Their rhetoric is just as toxic as it was before and still, Snyder doesn’t do anything to try to calm it down. That says a lot and validates the Rolling Stone reporting.

The olive branch I’ll extend to the #ReleaseTheSnyderCut folks is that standing up for a filmmaker against a restrictive studio is something most of us movie fans can agree is a good fight. But look at how you’re fighting and the damage being done. 

Don’t be supervillains with a moral justification. Be the hero that rises above it.