Had a feeling this would happen so let's go through why, no, the downvoting of @starwars official videos promoting The High Republic is not just "toxic/disgruntled fans." This is a political attack&can be tied back to organized alt right networks who do this kind of thing a lot

Now this should already be clear since Krystina Arielle has been a target of the alt right leader responsible for pushing the pizzagate conspiracy that led to Qanon, but let's illustrate this further with an example from a completely different industry: emerging technology.

Last year, Microsoft dropped an ad for the HoloLens, an augmented reality headset currently targeted at enterprise & developers. The ad featured artist Marina Abramovic and her experience utilizing AR tech to bring her art to life. The ad was bombed w/ 24k dislikes & was removed.

The downvoting was politically motivated by a conspiracy that Marina is some satanist who is connected to -- you guessed it -- those same politicians who drink children's blood in popular Qanon conspiracies and can also be traced back to pizzagate. https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/microsoft-deletes-marina-abramovic-campaign-satanism-1202683987/

And at the time when I was putting together a press briefing for this incident while working for one of MSFT's competitors, who was the top person pushing the success of the political attack against this ad?

This freaking guy.

I was critical of MSFT's decision to pull the ad at the time & I still am: Not assessing when you're being politically attacked strengthens the ability for these attackers to, well, do it again (let alone the affects these attacks can take on your bottom line).

I understand this is new for cos. I have the unique experience of being Very Online paying attention to how the alt right has evolved over 10+ yrs while working in high tech assessing the impact of tech on society. I can say, there's little dialogue happening around this topic.

And this isn't just on Lucasfilm, MSFT, etc to deal w/.This is something that all of us need to understand for what it is, especially people who talk about it in publications or podcasts: These are not "toxic fans." They are political instigators w/ clear, harmful agendas.