Somebody just wanted to get as many clicks as possible

It's funny when a "serious' writer tries clickbait and it fails. If you're not going to have any integrity - you should just go whole hog. He could have gone with something like this...

Did superhero movies lose Afghanistan?

They are more connected than you think.

I wrote the following using the article as inspriation...

Hollywood will eventually face a calamity with the failure of a nine digit superhero movie and the genre will quickly collapse. It'll be just like Afghanistan. Tinsel Town is a long way from Kabul, where U.S. citizens are still being evacuated following the withdrawal of American forces last month. But there's a tighter link than meets the eye. Consider the incredible success of superhero movies. Hackneyed plots, insipid dialog, and annoyed critics are no match for celebrity worship and CGI. Whether or not intentional deception was involved, both situations display the dishonesty and incompetence of interlocking tech, finance, media, and military elites.

I never watch superhero movies so I don't know how to use Tony Stark convincingly at all. But if I did - I could riff on him for 50+% of an article by using the theme of "dishonesty and incompetence of interlocking tech, finance, media, and military elites". This stuff is word salad anyway.