Seth Udinski, FISM News
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Actor Billy Eichner has found himself in the middle of controversy after he took to social media to attack straight people and blame them for a paltry opening weekend at the box office for the LGBTQ romantic comedy ‘Bros”, which stars Eichner and a slew of gay actors and actresses.
Bros, which opened in theaters on September 30, follows the story of two gay men who fall in love. Studio execs were hoping to ride the ever-increasing push of LGBTQ ideologies in today’s culture to box office success, but were severely disappointed when the movie ended the weekend at number 4 and brought in an underwhelming $4.8 million in theaters.
Eichner took to Twitter to try to make sense of the movie’s failure. He directed his anger at the non-LGBTQ crowd, who he said “in certain parts of the country, just didn’t show up.”
That’s just the world we live in, unfortunately. Even with glowing reviews, great Rotten Tomatoes scores, an A CinemaScore etc, straight people, especially in certain parts of the country, just didn’t show up for Bros. And that’s disappointing but it is what it is.
Eichner, who broke into the acting scene as a secondary character on NBC’s hit comedy “Parks and Recreation”, followed that Tweet with a second jab at straight people, calling them “homophobic weirdos.”
Though there were many who agreed with Eichner’s feelings, many others were annoyed at Eichner’s apparent self-victimization and his participation in virtue-signaling, a trend that is becoming all the more consistent in Hollywood.
.@billyeichner blames #homophobia for why people didn’t want to see his new movie “Bros”
Romcoms are seen by chicks & dudes taking girls to see them on dates
Chicks don’t find gay stuff romantic, & straight dudes aren’t gay..so checks out why it failedhttps://t.co/xSniAmUStF
— E (@ElijahSchaffer) October 3, 2022
Others pointed to a polarizing curse-filled tweet from last year in which Eichner had publicly lambasted all Trump voters as “misogynist American dummies” as a possible reason for the failure.
So Billy Eichner is upset no one went and watched his gay romcom movie Bros. He literally said he didn’t want any Republicans to watch it. So you alienate half the country and then complain….
— Eric Kendrick (@EricKendrick_) October 4, 2022
Even many mainstream outlets including Variety and Forbes bucked against Eichner’s claims that the failure was due to homophobia, saying that there were a multitude of other underlying flaws that made the movie a “box office disaster.”