Critics vs People (the Chappelle version)
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https://spectatorworld.com/topic/rotten-tomatoes-cultural-gap-critics-audiences/
Rotten Tomatoes has a user review system, which it measures against the media critics. This helps to show how paid critics approach their art, as opposed to casual audiences. It’s also becoming a cultural cudgel that proves a disconnect between the woke media and the public at large, which is exhausted by cancellations and public struggle sessions in the name of ‘progress’, racial or otherwise.
Currently Chappelle’s The Closer critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes sits at 43 percent, earning it the dreaded green splatter. However, it’s at an overwhelming 96 percent on the audience meter. On the flip side, the new Disney Plus documentary on Dr Anthony Fauci, which explores the personal side of the controversial figure, has a certified 91 percent approval rating from critics and a mere 2 percent from audiences.
Does Rotten Tomatoes signal a new interpersonal way to poll the cultural and media divide? It could. This kind of gap first became an issue with Star Wars: The Last Jedi, which was praised by critics and borderline despised by audiences. The same thing happened with Captain Marvel, which led to Rotten Tomatoes implementing a verification system to prevent a troll tactic called ‘review-bombing’, where reviewers coordinate and bombard a piece of media or film with the sole intention of driving the rating down.
However, Rotten Tomatoes only implemented this system for theatrical releases, meaning there’s no way to track whether those commenting on or rating Chappelle and Fauci have even viewed the special. A 2 percent approval rating among audiences is almost unheard of, so the Fauci documentary is most likely a casualty of political audience bombing. The Chappelle special is more interesting, as both Chappelle himself and stand-up comedy on Netflix as a genre attract niche audiences.
Instead of comparing Chappelle’s special to Fauci, perhaps a better comparison is to the critically acclaimed special Nanette from woke comedian Hannah Gadsby. Nanette garnered a perfect critic rating of 100 percent certified fresh. And no wonder: it was practically created in a lab for New Yorker cartoon caption writers and woke social justice warriors who believe stand-up comedy is really about working through personal and societal issues of intersectionality. Nanette only earned a 27 percent audience rating.
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@george-k said in Critics vs People (the Chappelle version):
he Closer critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes sits at 43 percent, earning it the dreaded green splatter. However, it’s at an overwhelming 96 percent on the audience meter. On the flip side, the new Disney Plus documentary on Dr Anthony Fauci, which explores the personal side of the controversial figure, has a certified 91 percent approval rating from critics and a mere 2 percent from audiences.
Does Rotten Tomatoes signal a new interpersonal way to poll the cultural and media divide? It could. This kind of gap first became an issue with Star Wars: The Last Jedi, which was praised by critics and borderline despised by audiences. The same thing happened with Captain Marvel, which led to Rotten Tomatoes implementing a verification system to prevent a troll tactic called ‘review-bombing’, where reviewers coordinate and bombard a piece of media or film with the sole intention of driving the rating down.
However, Rotten Tomatoes only implemented this system for theatrical releases, meaning there’s no way to track whether those commenting on or rating Chappelle and Fauci have even viewed the special. A 2 percent approval rating among audiences is almost unheard of, so the Fauci documentary is most likely a casualty of political audience bombing. The Chappelle special is more interesting, as both Chappelle himself and stand-up comedy on Netflix as a genre attract niche audiences.
Instead of comparing Chappelle’s special to Fauci, perhaps a better comparison is to the critically acclaimed special Nanette from woke comedian Hannah Gadsby. Nanette garnered a perfect critic rating of 100 percent certifiI heard about this being described on a Jordan Peterson podcast as well.
The problem with this measure is that it'll only work until there's mass awareness of it - else people with a political ax to grind will start weighing in disproportionately to influence the audience score.
As of right now - the trends probably signals something real.
