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[–] [email protected] 120 points 2 months ago (2 children)

We are all half a Jeremy on this blessed day.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I am all half a Jeremy on this blessed day

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Jeremy spoke in class today.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Half a Jeremy is a quarter of a Jeremy Bearimy.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's guy's still in great shape even during rebuilding. I wish I could be half so fit on this blessed day !

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Oh absolutely. My comment was an old joke concerning a social media account named Ken M.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I'm like, at most 1/10 a Jeremy.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Trust Disney to kick him while he's down

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They can get a masked CGI to do it for less. CGI A.I. body doubles is gonna make them rich.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I was never a fan of his, but when I saw this I decided he's just not a good person. What a gross thing to do to people who support you. I hope to not have to see him in anything going forward.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

It's basically an onlyfans/patreon that he didn't have to give someone else a cut of...

If people want to give you money, let them...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Google and apple certainly take a cut. Bigger than patreon and onlyfans btw.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

what kind of logic is that? the guy's rich and successful, he doesn't need to take money from people who suck at managing their impulses.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And how do you think rich people get rich

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

how's that relevant? he's already rich, he doesn't need more money

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

That screams narcissism for sure

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Idk man.

I went to the Wiki article, and it's formatted in a way that basically implies he did the app himself.

Renner explained the shutdown in a goodbye post. “Due to clever individuals that were able to manipulate ways to impersonate me and others within the app, I have asked ESCAPEX, the company that runs this app, to shut it down immediately and refund anyone who has purchased any stars over the last 90 days,” he wrote. Stars are the app’s version of currency. “What was supposed to be a place for fans to connect with each other has turned into a place that is everything I detest and can’t or won’t condone.”

So it's some company called ESCAPEX. I could put money, but not a lot of it, on them having sold Renner the concept instead of the other way around. Artists always have tons of passive income from things like that, and it seems like it ran pretty smoothly for a few years, until the trolls, and when he found out, he shut it down.

Idk maybe it was his idea and he only shut it down when it became completely uncontrollable idk.

But I don't know, and definitely haven't seen enough evidence to say he's a bad person.

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One of the main controversies of Renner's app was its marketing. The app's developers, Escapex, specialized in and grew famous for making similar monetized apps for celebrities.[13][8] The marketing campaign was based on direct contact with Renner, whose chances were increased with regular payments for "stars",[17] although very few encounters seemed to happen with Renner himself.[18] The multiple problems with the app led the CEO of Escapex, Sephi Shapira, to call the app a "freak situation", and added "Am I concerned about this? Not more than I'm concerned about 50 other things I'm dealing with as a startup company."[17] Along with the marketing failures, the app was seen as misrepresenting itself as seemingly erotic with some advertisements featuring Renner suggestively staring at the camera, despite the actual app being initially considered safe for children.[14]

I think is more a case of Renner being taken advantage of by some asshole company than him straight up being an asshole

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

I never knew about this. What a weird, fucked up thing to do.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Depends on how much his character was supposed appear.

If it was just cameos, with Kate Bishop/Hailee Steinfeld getting most of the screentime, then of course.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

How can it be Hawkeye without … you know … Hawkeye?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Now that would be really terrific. Wow what a swell casting there. Just top notch.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Good for him, and he’s just asking for his original salary. Pay this man!👏👏👏 Isn’t Hawkeye supposed to be one of the better Marvel Disney+ shows anyway? Watch them come crawling back

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I didn't watch it but my understanding is that Hawkeye passed on the torch and he probably was going to be more in the background instead of the star. I don't know the exact parameters but I imagine it would not be as much screen time or physically demanding scenes. Fuck Disney for being a shitty company but I'm not sure if this is 100% attributable to that.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Lmaooo, no. It’s probably the most forgettable one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Oof, I dunno, so many are very forgettable

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago

Season 1 is all about the character being completely worn out so now he fits the role even more

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Oh no... rich person gets offered to be paid millions instead of being paid millions...

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I never understand this mindset. It reminds me of people who complain about NFL players all while the owners rake in billions. Like why y'all mad at the labor? Be mad at the owner.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Think worker vs shareholder, not just rich vs poor. Never take a job for less, always negotiate, or you're only leaving more money for the owners

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Also, plenty of these people will take lower paying jobs, just not from Disney and not from a multi billion dollar franchise.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Because it's not about money, it's about respect.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

I saw season one as kind of passing the torch anyway. If he didn’t appear in season two, the show would be just fine without him.

I’m a Hawkeye fan, not a Renner fan.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe they're speculating only half the people will watch it, based on previous trends. I sure didn't watch the first one.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (4 children)

His 'joke' about a 'fictional character' being a slut tells me all I need to know about him. He is insufferable and everything I have seen him in was made worse by his presence.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What's wrong with being a slut? I'm a slut.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

As The Gonz wrote about 35 years ago,"She's a slut, and you want to be." Truer words have never been penned.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

I don't know the guy, but I thought his acting was top-notch. I'm sorry you know him so well.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

They were asked about Black Widow being with Hawkeye or Captain America and ending up with Hulk and Renner jokingly responds "she's a slut" and Chris Evans laughed and it was nothing. A joke, a silly joke, am obvious one, it was nothing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Bourne Legacy is the best Bourne film. He might be insufferable. I don't know they guy.

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