Fans were not proud of about the major death in last week ’s episode of The 100 . ( Neither were we . ) And since then , they ’ve been furiously working not just to adjudge their displeasure — but to make the show itself pay a heavy price .
Spoilers for last week ’s episode ahead …
Thanks to Twitter fans have more access to Almighty and determination manufacturing business than ever before , and also more ability to form a massive campaign in a hurry . Fans of The 100 quickly shew how angry they were , by targeting creator Jason Rothenberg . In just 24 hours , he lost more than 10,000 followers , and his numbers have continued a steady ( albeit small ) decline since .
But Twitter , as a metric of audience engagement is relatively newfangled — and officially , no one really pay a hoot if a showrunner ’s follower count plummets after an unpopular story move .
Which was why 100 fans take a different tacking last night . They tuned out the show , and centre on getting their contend hashtag,#LGBTFansDeserveBetter , trending . The hashtag was selected because the character who was killed off was one of the few explicitly queer characters on the show .
The hashtag did trend , and The 100 did not check Nielsen ’s Top 5 show , as measure via Twitter . More importantly , The 100 stick out its worst ratings all season . Only1.25 million people watch over , as equate the week before when 1.39 million viewers tuned in .
It might not be fair to chalk this dip entirely up to fandom anger — numbers were down across the board , with even The Big Bang Theory make its lowest bit of the time of year . But when your show already has a flyspeck audience , antagonizing a large chunk of them might not go so well for you .
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