{"id":7659,"date":"2016-08-08T09:33:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T16:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7659"},"modified":"2016-08-09T09:37:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T16:37:03","slug":"troll-troll-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/08\/08\/troll-troll-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Troll Troll Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/movies\/2016\/08\/08\/summer-negativity-pop-culture-suicide-squad-ghostbusters-kanye-taylor\/88329624\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from USA Today<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Summer&#8217;s civil war: How did pop culture get so negative?<\/h1>\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/staff\/2117\/brian-truitt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\">Brian Truitt<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/6895421f7b81c53a864556b5d3e961ba388587ae\/c=0-0-1547-1163&amp;r=x408&amp;c=540x405\/local\/-\/media\/2016\/08\/08\/USATODAY\/USATODAY\/636062485817446140-XXX-TAYLORSWIFT-KANYEWEST-GETTYIMAGES-90712947-79534770.JPG\" alt=\"Kanye West jumped onstage after Taylor Swift won for\" width=\"480\" \/><em>Kanye West jumped onstage after Taylor Swift won for best female video at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.\u00a0<span class=\"credit\">(Photo: Christopher Polk, Getty Images)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The biggest civil war of summer was supposed to be Captain America and Iron Man facing off in a superhero popcorn movie. But in the past few months, battle lines have been\u00a0drawn all over pop culture, with tempers flaring, cooler heads not prevailing and hate spewing everywhere, mostly on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>There was DC vs. Marvel as fanboys and fangirls hotly debated comic-book franchises. Old-school\u00a0<em>Ghostbusters<\/em>\u00a0fans vs. the new reboot\u2019s female stars.\u00a0Kanye West\u00a0and\u00a0Kim Kardashian\u00a0vs.\u00a0Taylor Swift\u00a0in a he said\/she said\u00a0war involving lyrics and Snapchat videos. Those who were excited\u00a0to\u00a0see\u00a0<em>Suicide Squad<\/em>\u00a0vs. the critics who reviled it, with RottenTomatoes.com becoming ground zero for trench warfare.<\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s the presidential race, where two weeks of conventions featured\u00a0political parties calling each other out and cable\u00a0news coverage showcased\u00a0surrogates of\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0and\u00a0Hillary Clinton\u00a0sniping at one another 24\/7.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I see right now is the whole world seems to be going to hell in a handbasket, and that\u2019s creating a lot of tension and anger,\u201d says Devin Faraci, editor in chief of film site Birth.Movies.Death. \u201cThat stuff leaks out into every possible direction. We\u2019re in that weird position where everything sort of seems terrible and so as a result, people become negative and combative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not as much people hating things as it is feverishly defending what they like, figures Mike Ryan, senior entertainment writer for Uproxx.com. \u201cAnd if something or someone gets in the way of what they&#8217;re defending, watch out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/movies\/2016\/08\/08\/summer-negativity-pop-culture-suicide-squad-ghostbusters-kanye-taylor\/88329624\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at USA Today<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from USA Today Summer&#8217;s civil war: How did pop culture get so negative? By\u00a0Brian Truitt Kanye West jumped onstage after Taylor Swift won for best female video at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.\u00a0(Photo: Christopher Polk, Getty Images) The biggest civil war of summer was supposed to be Captain America and Iron Man facing off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}