>>149322084
It was indeed about what it is to live in a society. But "the wrong people" liked it, and found it cathartic, so Joker 2 is the makers of the first movie flipping the bird to everyone who had Joker 1 mean something to them.

The people saying the director didn't want to make a sequel but they offered him too much money are also right, but the sequel ended up being one of the many examples of the entertainment industry burning money and turning down easy profit just to "own the chuds".