The internet has introduced a lot of wonderful things to modern society, but surely one of the its biggest downsides (if not the biggest) is the ease with which it allows assholes to send death threats to people they disagree with. It’s not even a new phenomenon, but the popularity of social media outlets like Twitter have just made it easier for people to tell someone with a differing opinion that they deserve to die. In fact, it’s becoming depressingly normal for internet people to throw around death threats to anyone they don’t like, which means that sometimes the most surprising thing is discovering which unexpected hills these guys are willing to die on. (And we know they’re not always guys, but come on.)
Case in point: A critic named Clarke Wolfe had trolls descend on her social media pages earlier this year and threaten to kill over her opinion of Man Of Steel. Yes, the same Man Of Steel that Zack Snyder directed in 2013 and was widely considered to be—at best—fine. People were willing to threaten someone’s life over the “it’s not an S, it’s a symbol that means hope” movie, the “don’t use your superpowers, I’ll just let myself get killed for no reason” movie, and the “Superman just snapped that guy’s neck” movie. Apparently, people are extremely invested in that movie.