Star Warsfans are flooding the Rotten Tomatoes website for a weird reason. They are trying to getStar WarsEpisode 3:Revenge of the Sithto be listed as the number one movie of the summer.
The movie rating website Rotten Tomatoes relies on fans to rate movies and give honest reviews to keep their content up and running. Fans can vote on how good a movie was, and sometimes those ratings surprise viewers and critics alike. For example,the newSonicmovie is rated higher thanStar Wars Episode 9. During the year, Rotten Tomatoes has a variety of fan-voted competitions to see what movies fans love the most in certain categories.
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This month, Rotten Tomatoes is running a Best Summer Movie campaign, and several Reddit communities, including prequelmemes, are working together to makeRevenge of the Siththe number one summer movie in the world. While some communities areraising money for Coronavirus relief, like the Halo community, theStar Warsfanbase is fighting to getRevenge of the Siththe number one Ultimate Summer Movie.
The campaign has already locked all Marvel movies out of the running, includingAvengers Endgame,which may return to theaters after the pandemic is over. The goal of this weird campaign is to have onlyStar Warstitles in the final four, ensuring that the galaxy far, far away is in the number one spot no matter what. Although the campaign isn’t over yet, theStar Warsfans are battling against some big summer flicks likeFinding NemoandRaiders of the Lost Ark.
However, the internet has proved over and over again that with enough Reddit groups working together, they can alter the course of online voting contests at a whim. For example, in spite of being released on the last day of March, thePersona 5 Royal Editionwas voted the best game of March 2020. Another would be the Lays Potato chip flavor voting campaign that went viral for its orange-juice-and-toothpaste-flavored madness.
And don’t forget the50,000Battlefront 2fans trying to save their servers by signing petitions. These weird campaigns get people to come together for some of the strangest group projects on the internet. But it shows that people can work together en masse to get something done, and theStar Warscommunity certainly loves their memes.
