When Sony announced its plans to reboot the iconic classicGhostbusterswith an all-girl cast, the news brought a lot of haters out of the woodwork, many of which expressed their dissent on social media. Before and during production,director Paul Feigfired back at those who claimed this reboot would ruin their childhood by assembling a team offemale Ghostbusters, but that hasn’t stopped angry fans from spreading their hate. A new YouTube list recently surfaced featuring the 100 most disliked videos of all time, and theGhostbusters trailerthat debuted in March is the only movie trailer on the list.
The list was compiled by theYouTubechannel My Top 100 videos, with theGhostbusterstrailer ranking 21st with 523,376 dislikes, just betweenJustin Bieber’s music video for Sorry (551,000 dislikes) andTaylor Swift’s Shake It Off music video (522,000 dislikes). The only other movie-related videos on the list are aFrozensing-along video of Let It Go at 52nd place with 296,000 dislikes, along with another version of Let It Go in 94th place with 213,000 dislikes. In case you’re curious, the most hated YouTube video ever isJustin Bieber’s music video for Baby, featuringLudacris, which has a whopping 5.99 million dislikes.
Screen Crush also compiled some more data which puts the overwhelming hatred for theGhostbusterstrailer into perspective. The trailer for last year’s critical and financial flopFantastic Fourhas 20,175 dislikes, whileThe Ridiculous Sixtrailer, which has a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, only has 5,803 dislikes. The trailer for theGhostbusters reboothas been viewed 28.8 million times, with 205,405 likes and 523,376 dislikes. The ratio of dislikes to likes is a staggering 5:1, which is quite high, but not compared to others in this field. For example, the site pointed out thatPsy’s Gangnam Style video, which is number 4 overall with 1.5 million thumbs down for 2.5 billion views for a ratio of 1,666 dislikes to every one view.
The site also points out that fans seemed to be fueling the hatred quite enthusiastically. When one fan mentioned in the comments that they reached the 500,000 dislike plateau, another chimed in, stating they should try for one million dislikes. It’s also worth noting that this trailer was released less than two months ago, and many of the other videos on this list have been out there for several years. What remains to be seen is if all this negative energy towardsGhostbusterswill impact the box office at all.
Ghostbustershits theaters on July 15, a slot which has plenty of distance between superhero movies likeCaptain America: Civil War(May 6),X-Men: Apocalypse(May 27) andSuicide Squad(August 5). Its only competition on opening weekend isThe Infiltrator, but it will go up against Paramount’s sci-fi sequelStar Trek Beyondone week later on July 22. We haven’t seen any earlybox office trackingdata forGhostbustersyet, but we’ll be sure to keep you posted as we get closer to the July 15 release date. In case you missed it, or want to watch it again, you can check out the firstGhostbusterstrailer below. We also have three newGhostbustersphotos featuring the main cast of haint-hunting ladies.
