Go F*** Yourself' — Justice League Director Zack Snyder Has a Clear Message for Anyone Who Thinks the Snyderverse Fandom Is Toxic

Director Zack Snyder isn't mincing words erstwhile it comes to defending the #ReleasetheSnyderCut instrumentality movement. In a caller interrogation connected Josh Horowitz's Happy Sad Confused podcast (via Dexerto), Snyder told critics of the question to "go f*** yourself."

Snyder's remark comes astatine the tail-end of a 10-year retrospective astir 2016's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and the wider DCEU shared universe. Snyder reflects connected the improbable triumph that was Warner Bros. releasing his archetypal director's chopped of Justice League successful 2021, noting that the Snyderverse fandom was instrumental successful making that happen.

"I deliberation the fans should ne'er hide that they did that," Snyder told Horowitz. "We raised a batch of wealth for termination prevention and they truly did a batch of good. They drawback a batch of flak for being toxic oregon whatever, but they virtually saved quality lives, truthful you tin spell f*** yourself if that's what you think."

Snyder is referring to the information that members of the Snyderverse fandom raised astir $500,000 for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, successful grant of Snyder's daughter, Autumn, who died successful 2017. Snyder departed Justice League that twelvemonth successful the aftermath of his daughter's death, starring WB to bring successful Joss Whedon to reshoot and recut the film.

As Snyder alludes, the Snyderverse fandom has been the taxable of disapproval implicit the years, with immoderate pointing to a signifier of online bullying and harassment. That harassment has seemingly intensified with the pivot from the DCEU to James Gunn's DCU. Mods connected r/SnyderCut were forced to delete a station calling for a run of review-bombing and spoilers aft Gunn glibly replied, "Lol I deliberation we'll survive. I'm not definite the 8 radical that perceive to that feline (I'm going to spell retired connected a limb and conjecture it's a guy) are going to interaction the people of events.”

Even Snyder's colleague, Suicide Squad manager David Ayer, hasn't been immune from online harassment. Ayer famously backed distant from societal media successful precocious 2024 aft voicing enactment for Gunn's Superman movie and receiving decease threats successful response.

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