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The core of the critique is a broader commentary on Hollywood’s disconnection from reality. It highlights how actors like Ziggler remain in a fantasyland, believing or claiming that their projects are more successful than the data suggests. The actress's exaggerated claim that she deserves lifetime pay based on streaming views is dismissed as naive—no one is watching her Snow White anymore, and the initial interest was fleeting.
The piece underscores how this disconnect fuels misrepresentations often used to justify big salaries, advertising budgets, or to maintain morale within an industry that is increasingly out of touch with its audience's interests.