Marvel fans irate about how their movies don’t win oscars are almost worse than g*mers who get irate that people don’t take their artistic medium seriously.
The reason Marvel fans wants their capeshit to be taken seriously is the same reason why gamers wants video games to be considered "art": bragging reward. They want to be able to brags about "Oh yeah, I watched the first Avengers/I played Bioshock" and people would be amazed in the same way when one says that they have read the classics or went to the opera.
However the moment their media receive any kind of serious criticism, befitting if one is to be treated maturely, they completely rolled back on their claims and falls back into "It's just dumb entertainment, let people have fun!". It already happened with video games, the "video game is art" movement was killed by Gamergate in 2014-2015 when they branded all critiques that made them feels uncomfortable as SJW nonsense. Ever since that the stance of capital G G*mers have always been that vidya is an innocent apolitical mindless media form immune from criticism.
The reason Marvel fans wants their capeshit to be taken seriously is the same reason why gamers wants video games to be considered "art": bragging reward. They want to be able to brags about "Oh yeah, I watched the first Avengers/I played Bioshock" and people would be amazed in the same way when one says that they have read the classics or went to the opera.
However the moment their media receive any kind of serious criticism, befitting if one is to be treated maturely, they completely rolled back on their claims and falls back into "It's just dumb entertainment, let people have fun!". It already happened with video games, the "video game is art" movement was killed by Gamergate in 2014-2015 when they branded all critiques that made them feels uncomfortable as SJW nonsense. Ever since that the stance of capital G G*mers have always been that vidya is an innocent apolitical mindless media form immune from criticism.