zap said:
Of Course, Influencers Have Seen 'The Odyssey' Early
https://gizmodo.com/of-course-influencers-have-seen-the-odyssey-early-2000779829
"Then, on Monday night, influencers, creators, critics, and journalists alike started posting images from a 70mm IMAX screening of The Odyssey in New York City, leaving many confused. What happened to the idea of no social media influencer screenings?"
Taking that article on face value, it kind of gives creedance to what I was saying before. Which is that I don't think social media "influencers" in the very general sense of the term are going away. What studios can do though is stop explicitly using the complete shill influencers who have no real opinion and are bought and paid for by the studio. Instead they can grant early screening access to the social media influencers who more or less operate like traditional media and give their own independent opinions to their subscribers. I kind of took the original claim of "Nolan bans influencers!" as that, and not necessarily banning all social media. And I think that's what TCTTS was implying as well.