This week’s report on what young people are doing covers what happens when the movie industry announces a Minecraft movie, the media industry notices a small time trend, and what banks do when you steal from them. I also take a look at one of the darkest viral videos ever.
Why does everyone hate the Minecraft movie trailer?
Minecraft is probably the biggest pop-culture product for both Gen Z and Gen A. It came out in 2011 and still has around 160 million active monthly players. So you’d think the game’s fans would be happy that a live-action Minecraft movie was coming out. But they definitely are not. At least not this movie.
Warner Bros. released the first trailer for A Minecraft Movie this week, and a lotof people online are dunking on it. They hate everything about it—they hate the look, the casting, the whole enchilada: the current “like” to “dislike” ratio for the …