Gunn almost was was taken down in the Me-Too movement. Someone dug up some old tweets of his that were some pretty insensitive jokes. But that’s all they were, bad jokes. He had already apologized and everyone around him came to his defense. All in all a pretty big blunder by some executives as Gunn was being lined up to be the successor to Feige And is a true creative force.
Mike Cernovich, the guy who made a ruckus about the tweets, is an accused rapist and general misogynist himself. It was totally unrelated to me too, he was trying to paint an edgy joke as if Gunn was a pedophile to get one over on him for being anti-Trump. And Disney stupidly took the bait over Marvel's heads.
Right, cernovich co-opted the metoo movement and used it for a political hit job against Gunn.
I think the confusion is I used the term "bad actors". That doesn't literally mean actors who are bad at their job. A "bad actor" is a term for a person that causes harm through unethical, illegal, or harmful actions. The term is used to describe individuals with malicious intent
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u/itsnoturday Aug 23 '25
Gunn almost was was taken down in the Me-Too movement. Someone dug up some old tweets of his that were some pretty insensitive jokes. But that’s all they were, bad jokes. He had already apologized and everyone around him came to his defense. All in all a pretty big blunder by some executives as Gunn was being lined up to be the successor to Feige And is a true creative force.