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Originally Posted by joefan76

Well said every company goes through periods like this once it hits the maturity stage of the business life cycle. To ensure long term growths companies have to look at what is working and what is not and how to adjust what is not working in order see if that division, product, idea can be made profitable or if it needs to be discarded and replaced by anothe that is more profitable. I know we all joke and fake complain that Hasbro doesnt do this for us hates this scale or what ever and they like these fans better than these fans, but the reality is at the end of the day the only people that the Hasbro leadership are accountable Toni’s it’s board and it’s stockholders who expect a profitable return on the money that they have invested in the company.

Yup. At the end of the day, it's a business. But it's not helped with heaps of false information paraded around as fact. All that does is cloud the truth from being understood and perpetuates ignorance.

While some fans make "jokes" others aren't. Therein is another issue entirely.

That's one of the problems to that kind of humor. It validates others that mean it even though others mean it in jest and aren't serious.

Plus, jokes are supposed to be funny. The way some areas act, it's not only not funny, it's straight up ignorant. As we've learned time and time again, don't assume areas are smart enough to get you're being satirical with remarks when they try to jump in with their own.

It's that same kind of mentality and affirmation of any line of jokes, if you aren't careful, what you're actually doing is endorsing such behaviors and validating it. Never assume with fandoms that they're smart enough to understand satire. Some are and do, but sadly more do not. And as we've seen with the fan made up 'fake narratives' there is heaps of ignorance that blind them from understanding why different factors are the way they are.

Sadly with fandoms it's like a game of telephone. One joke turns into a rumor turns into a new rumor and then way down the chain it somehow becomes fan accepted "fact" that was never true to begin with.