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It honestly might be the most prolonged period of complete crackhead-tier mismanagement any major media company has ever had. They had a license to print money, thought "but what if we could make even MORE money" and unironically ran the company into the ground trying to improve on good.
The conversation always descends into memes but the facts are that the Snyder films were profitable and everything they did after him was one catasrophe after another. And I think Snyder probably wasn't the right guy to be in charge of the entire thing and maybe needed a tard wrangler to talk him down from some of his dumber ideas but, fuck, the people who stepped in after him were like saboteurs. They were upset that BVS "only" made $900 mil and by the end they were releasing turds that couldn't even gross $100 mil domestically.
So the DCEU was getting outgrossed by the MCU. So fucking what. DC has been the comic book silver medalist since like 1965 or whatever. It still had fans, it still sold, it still made money. Blowing it all up because it's first place or nothing was insane. This is like Adidas getting butthurt that Nike outsold them one year, firing everyone, discontinuing their most popular shoes and letting the unpaid interns design some garish replacements that sold 1/10 the volume of the originals. It was corporate suicide