It's still Nolan. He is still a very respected director with amazing movies. I think people don't trust the media anymore and are starting to feel forced to check things for themselves, and I think that's what's happening here.

In my humble opinion, what's going to say whether the "backslash failed" or not is the numbers and reviews after a few weeks. We shall see

Edit: After reading the entire article (Thanks, user with the archive link), there is a lot of unrealistic exaggerations used as arguments, like tickets being sold for 1K USD, which is just absurd, and writing like "I myself travelled about an hour-and-change round-trip only to not see it." which makes no sense. Honestly, that makes me question the actual truthfulness of the things written in this article as facts. That said, from a reasonable perspective, I think my original point is still valid.

> So much of this culture war jockeying exists purely online, to sustain an infrastructure of monetized outrage that is increasingly preoccupied with Western chauvinism, racism, and just plain antisocial weirdness.

https://archive.ph/ZgrAP