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If you’re just looking to argue or tone-police, you’re wasting both our time. I’ll block and carry on without hesitation.

I don’t need to be everyone’s favorite, I’d rather engage with people who actually think for themselves.

And just to be clear, criticism isn’t cruelty. Holding someone accountable, especially when they’ve built their image on lies and convenience, isn’t misogyny, it’s discernment.

Agreed. It’s all branding. Look at any old video of him pre-2010 and he was always at every Hollywood party including the Playboy mansion hitting on women. You don’t go to a Playboy party unless you’re a player wanting attention. Probably the usual “I’m a famous actor” line. Guy admitted he only got into theater for attention and to get girls, not because he actually liked acting. He was always comparing himself to hemsworth too when it came to muscles and that was around the time Hemsworth was SMA. It gave off jealousy. To me, he’s always come across as very shallow and attention seeking. Same way he always said he would never get Instagram and then a couple years later gets an Instagram recording himself diving into pools shirtless, shirtless photos with his dog, and oh look I can play a piano! I understand covid was a thing and celebrities were doing anything to be relevant but he didn’t have to get one if he actually hated it. I even remember him making an old tweet once about being thrilled he was one of the trending topics on tumblr of all places. He’s more aware than people give him credit for and that’s also his downfall. Hubris is a bitch.

I totally agree, he wanted both the SMA title and Captain America. IMHO, the whole 'reluctant celebrity' legend wasn't just about selling this romanticized story of a humble guy who never asked for fame. Since he's a franchise actor, projecting that relatable 'guy-next-door' vibe was essential to hook the general public, but it was also a leverage play. Acting hard to get is just a classic bargaining chip to gain the upper hand during contract negotiations.

He’s muddied the waters so many times that a huge part of his own fandom doesn’t trust what they’re being told anymore. People who were literally at the con can’t even agree on what he said. That’s what happens when you don’t control your own narrative.

And this goes back YEARS. Nobody needed a Central Park pap marathon or another perfectly timed timeline. People wanted to see normal, genuine interaction. We still haven’t. Even the last carpet they did together had people asking why he barely acknowledged her and seemed to look everywhere but at her.

I honestly don't know why he picks the roles he picks now. I mean he should take some advice from Sebastian. He should tries outside his comfort roles.

I haven’t seen Puncture or Snowpiercer, although I’ve heard good things about both. I think his problem is he doesn’t want to leave his comfort zone and he’s surrounded by people who don’t challenge him. Sebastian is a good comparison because he’s willing to take risks with roles and some fail and some work.

Unfortunately at this point I don’t really want to go back and watch some of the movies I missed because I look at Chris differently now, and that sucks because I genuinely enjoyed him as an actor.

And this theory is good and all but then I can’t make sense of why “team real” is fed stuff unless it’s a team plant account. It sure helps push her but I don’t understand how that would help him? It’s still having fan girls obsessed with his personal life then. I hate throwing the term plant around cause lord knows it makes everyone go batshit crazy but it does not make sense how so many of those blogs would share the crumbs. Maddy for example was the one to dissect the hotel in PT for the teacher video initially, was able to pinpoint every single location the PT trio was at, figure out a yoga certificate was fake, and on and on. Yet they instantly believe a botched birth certificate. Did all this digging and proving how fake it was for a year. Made fun of him nonstop rehashing old gossip from the early 2000s and talking about wigs and hair plants only to flip overnight and become a mega fan? But the only thing they’re a fan of is his personal relationship? So his team decides to only keep one set of extreme fans?

NOTHING MAKES SENSE! 🥲

The blocking was such a bizarre choice because it took people who were questioning something and basically screamed “YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO QUESTION THIS.” Of course that made people question it harder. And the blogs are where I lose the plot completely. I’m careful calling anyone a plant because we don’t actually know that, but the sudden personality transplants are WEIRD. You don’t spend a year analyzing every pixel, location and inconsistency and then wake up one Tuesday like “actually everything checks out” without people wondering what changed.

I actually disagree that he never wanted SMA. I think “Chris doesn’t want attention” was part of the brand. Same with the reluctant Captain America story. The humble Boston boy who somehow stumbled into being famous and hot. Please...

Actors want attention to some degree. They literally picked a career that requires people to watch them. I think he wanted Captain America and I think he wanted SMA. The “who, me?” thing just made him more likable. That’s why this rebrand is so bizarre. The old branding WORKED. This doesn’t. Serious actor, but where are the serious career moves? Family man, but nothing of substance there either. Private, yet his personal life keeps becoming promo. Doesn’t want attention, but does cons leaning heavily on nostalgia.

What’s the point of rebranding as a settled-down family man for 'serious' roles if he’s not psychologically ready to devalue one of his biggest assets—his looks?

He’s not picking roles where he looks old, unattractive, or fragile. None of his recent projects (Marerialists, Honey Don't, Sacrifice) signals to the industry that he's open to real actor transformations. It's literally the exact same shtick he was pulling before the rebrand.

Another point. When an actor spends 20 years building a career on the 'internet boyfriend' persona, the flawless body, and the charming bachelor image, the SMA title offers literally nothing new. It just officially brands him as the ultimate sex symbol for the masses—doubling down on objectification instead of highlighting his talent.

And honestly, why even go for the SMA title in the first place when it only undercut his credibility as a serious actor?!

I think the bigger problem is they want it both ways. They want him taken seriously as a mature actor while still falling back on the exact image they spent years selling whenever they need attention.

And I agree about the roles. I don’t necessarily need him gaining 40 pounds or looking unrecognizable to prove he can act but where are the choices that actually challenge him? Defending Jacob, Knives Out, and Gifted showed he can do more when the material asks more of him. I’d rather see him take a smaller, genuinely difficult character role than another project where Chris Evans basically plays a variation of Chris Evans. (Looking at Ryan Reynolds here too)

We’re supposed to believe this man maintained an incredibly tight circle for 20+ years, but suddenly blogs and random “insiders” have access to extremely personal information...sometimes seemingly before the public narrative even gets there?

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Exactly. That’s what I mean - they had an idea but no foresight into how it would go? It’s like winging it. Look at Knives Out. Most of the marketing they let ride around the sweater talk and they heavily leaned into the flirting between him and Anna. They use it when it benefits them but then panic. Everything in this entire mess since 2020 has been reactive rather than strategy. I’m inclined to believe a huge part of this was the cash payout he’d get but the role choices they gave him during this is wild. The fact he pulled out of Fly Me to the Moon to do Red One instead is odd. He would have been better off in the other role which was a well written movie. It just comes off as sabotage whether it’s self inflicted or a team who doesn’t know what to do. They just keep making a bigger mess so now no casting director wants to touch him unless the film is deeply connected to CAA where they can pull some strings.

Exactly! “Reactive rather than strategic” is the perfect way to put it. If this was supposed to be a rebrand, years later we still can’t figure out what he was being rebranded into. They want to move away from the internet-boyfriend image until they need engagement, then suddenly it’s hair, clothes, thirst traps and LOOK HOW HOT CHRIS IS again.

And the career choices make even less sense. Dropping Fly Me to the Moon for Red One? If the goal was mature, substantial work, how was that moving him toward it? I won’t say casting directors won’t touch him because we can’t know that, but something clearly isn’t translating.

This is exactly what so many fans have been saying all along. The second any discussion about his career starts, there's immediately an attempt to shift the focus to the shitshow using nonsense quizzes like this.