Things We Saw Today: The Internet Has Decided! The Very Worst Fans Belong to Elon Musk

All week, we’ve been following this online tournament to determine which property or person has the very worst fanbase, and now the internet has finally declared a winner: Elon Musk.

Congratulations, Muskrats! (Or whatever you’re called.) You are the official worst!

Musk likely won because no matter what he does–including praising an actual sex cult as the last bastion of fair media or calling a heroic cave diver a “pedo” after the man who helped save the trapped Thai boys’ soccer team and their captain last month criticized Musk’s submarine–his fans will respond not with defense, but with vicious attacks.

I had predicted that the race would come down to Musk and Rick & Morty, and indeed it did. Michelle Spies, the writer behind the brackets, acknowledged that she made a mistake in leaving out Star Wars, and it would have been interesting to see how things would have shaken out if the franchise had been included. I guess we’ll have to wait until next year.

• Speaking of Star Wars, Oscar Isaac isn’t mincing words about the political nature of the Resistance fighters. (via /Film)
• No, you’re getting weirdly emotional over this remastered HD version of the Batman: The Animated Series opening title scene. (via ComicBook.com)
• We love this video from Lindsay Ellis about the rise and fall of the great movie musical. The whole this is fantastic, but if you do nothing else, please watch from the 14:17 mark to 14:33 to learn about Rex Harrison’s “giraffe-related mishaps” during the shooting of Doctor Dolittle. (via YouTube)
• Too real:
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  Trump Disapproval Rating Reaches All-Time None Of This Matters https://t.co/v7x25lGhbP pic.twitter.com/nUTfgOfSik

  — The Onion (@TheOnion) August 31, 2018

• Disneyland is going to start serving alcohol for the first time ever (outside of the super elite members-only Club 33), and it’ll be at Star Wars Land’s awesome-sounding Oga’s Cantina. (via i09)

Happy Super-Friday! I wish a very happy long weekend to those of you who get one and commiseration to those who don’t.

(image: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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Vivian Kane (she/her) is the Senior News Editor at The Mary Sue, where she's been writing about politics and entertainment (and all the ways in which the two overlap) since the dark days of late 2016. Born in San Francisco and radicalized in Los Angeles, she now lives in Kansas City, Missouri, where she gets to put her MFA to use covering the local theatre scene. She is the co-owner of The Pitch, Kansas City’s alt news and culture magazine, alongside her husband, Brock Wilbur, with whom she also shares many cats.

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