--- title: 'Ghostbusters' Trailer Brings Out the Misogynists description: The trailer for the new 'Ghostbusters' remake has received over 600,000 "dislikes" on YouTube. canonical: https://time.com/4314767/ghostbusters-trailer-negative-comments/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-02T19:10:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:02:23.162Z og:title: Misogynists Go Crazy Over The New 'Ghostbusters' Trailer og:description: It has received over 600,000 "dislikes" on YouTube og:url: https://time.com/4314767/ghostbusters-trailer-negative-comments/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf3d88328f0eb71ab/6988917a196cf4cc3203b6ed/ghostbusters-negative-comments-youtube.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: CinemaCon 2016 - An Evening With Sony Pictures Entertainment: Celebrating The Summer Of 2016 And Beyond og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Misogynists Go Crazy Over The New 'Ghostbusters' Trailer twitter:description: It has received over 600,000 "dislikes" on YouTube twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf3d88328f0eb71ab/6988917a196cf4cc3203b6ed/ghostbusters-negative-comments-youtube.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Misogynists Go Crazy Over The New _Ghostbusters_ Trailer by [Tom Huddleston, Jr. / Fortune](https://time.com/author/fortune/) ## Tom Huddleston, Jr. / Fortune May 2, 2016 7:10 PM UTC  LAS VEGAS, NV - APRIL 12: (L-R) Actresses Kate McKinnon, Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones and 'Ghostbusters' director Paul Feig attend CinemaCon 2016 An Evening with Sony Pictures Entertainment: Celebrating the Summer of 2016 and Beyond at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace during CinemaCon, the official convention of the National Association of Theatre Owners, on April 12, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Todd Williamson/Getty Images for CinemaCon) LAS VEGAS, NV - APRIL 12: (L-R) Actresses Kate McKinnon, Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones and 'Ghostbusters' director Paul Feig attend CinemaCon 2016 An Evening with Sony Pictures Entertainment: Celebrating the Summer of 2016 and Beyond at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace during CinemaCon, the official convention of the National Association of Theatre Owners, on April 12, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Todd Williamson/Getty Images for CinemaCon)Todd Williamson—CinemaCon/Getty Images by [Tom Huddleston, Jr. / Fortune](https://time.com/author/fortune/) ## Tom Huddleston, Jr. / Fortune May 2, 2016 7:10 PM UTC The most “disliked” movie trailer on YouTube belongs to a film that has not yet been released in theaters. As of Monday morning, more than 600,000 people had taken to the video streaming site to voice their disapproval of Sony’s _Ghostbusters_ reboot, set for a mid-July release, by clicking on the thumbs-down “dislike” button on the page for the movie’s trailer. _Ghostbusters_‘ 618,000 dislikes rank at #18 on a [playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLirAqAtl%5Fh2o1ism1dr5SbvB8Mf7Ve6Aa) of YouTube’s most disliked videos of all-time, which makes the video the most disliked movie trailer ever on the Google-owned website. What’s more, the new _Ghostbusters_‘ trailer is the only movie trailer on the “most disliked” playlist, which includes 100 videos and mostly consists of music videos, some of which have been viewed hundreds of millions, if not more than a billion, times. (The most disliked video of all-time is the video for Justin Bieber’s song “Baby,” with more than 6 million dislikes.) The _Ghostbusters_ trailer has only 215,000 “likes” (compared to 4.5 million for “Baby”) and it has received far more downward thumbs than trailers for [_Fantastic Four_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%5FrRoD28-WgU) (7,300 dislikes), one of last year’s biggest movie flops, or this year’s [_Batman v Superman_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fis-9Zqu2Ro) (15,000), which has performed relatively well in theaters but [received a toxic critical appraisal](http://fortune.com/2016/04/04/batman-superman-dropoff-critics/). As [ScreenCrush’s](http://screencrush.com/ghostbusters-trailer-most-disliked-movie-trailer-in-history/) Mike Sampson pointed out a few days ago, YouTube users aren’t just unimpressed by the trailer for the first new _Ghostbusters_ movie in 27 years, “they’re disliking it at a highly disproportionate rate” to other videos on the site. Once Sampson pointed out the disproportional distaste YouTube users have expressed toward the new _Ghostbusters_‘ trailer, [several](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ghostbusters-is-disliked-movie-trailer-889114) [other publications](http://www.vulture.com/2016/04/ghostbusters-teaser-is-youtube-most-hated.html) [joined the conversation](http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/05/ghostbusters-trailer-most-disliked-youtube) to echo his initial analysis: the reason the movie’s trailer is so disliked, they all agree, has to stem from the fact that the new _Ghostbusters_ features four female lead characters, which is a gender swap from the first two Ghostbusters movies that starred Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson in the titular ghost-busting roles. The new film stars Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones in the lead roles, with Paul Feig directing. ScreenCrush notes that Sony has had to delete quite a few offensive, misogynistic remarks from the trailer’s comments section on YouTube, while some users have egged on others to keep the number of dislikes climbing. Still, other commenters insist that the vitriol surrounding the trailer has nothing to do with the gender makeup of the cast, arguing instead that the trailer is “unfunny” and that Sony never should have rebooted the beloved franchise. Meanwhile, director Feig has said before that he’s [had to deal with misogynistic commenters](http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/128981/ghostbusters-paul-feig-tells-disgruntled-fan-to-go-fck-himself/) online since the film’s cast was announced last year. Of course, Sony will have to wait until July to see whether or not the YouTube disapproval will lead to box office receipts for a movie with a [reported budget north of $150 million](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ghostbusters-budget-cut-fox-execs-789896). The good news for the company is that the 618,000 dislikes represent only a small fraction of the nearly 30 million people who viewed the Ghostbusters trailer (not everyone votes to like or dislike every video). Also, the trailer has had a more positive reaction elsewhere online, including on [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/Ghostbusters), where it received more than 310,000 “likes” after 22 million views against only 12,000 negative reactions. _This_ [_article_](http://fortune.com/2016/05/02/female-ghostbusters-trailer/) _originally appeared on_ [_Fortune.com_](http://www.fortune.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4314767/ghostbusters-trailer-negative-comments/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4314767/ghostbusters-trailer-negative-comments/"},"headline":"Misogynists Go Crazy Over The New Ghostbusters Trailer","datePublished":"2016-05-02T19:10:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:02:23.162Z","description":"The trailer for the new 'Ghostbusters' remake has received over 600,000 \"dislikes\" on YouTube","url":"https://time.com/4314767/ghostbusters-trailer-negative-comments/","keywords":["motto","movies","News"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf3d88328f0eb71ab/6988917a196cf4cc3203b6ed/ghostbusters-negative-comments-youtube.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tom Huddleston, Jr. / Fortune"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf3d88328f0eb71ab/6988917a196cf4cc3203b6ed/ghostbusters-negative-comments-youtube.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"CinemaCon 2016 - An Evening With Sony Pictures Entertainment: Celebrating The Summer Of 2016 And Beyond","caption":"CinemaCon 2016 - An Evening With Sony Pictures Entertainment: Celebrating The Summer Of 2016 And Beyond","creditText":"Todd Williamson—CinemaCon/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4314767/ghostbusters-trailer-negative-comments/","name":"Misogynists Go Crazy Over The New Ghostbusters Trailer"}}]}] ```