With Spider-Man: Lotus now having been launched – and brought the requisite pasting from all corners of the web as a consequence of each its lack of high quality and the controversy that torpedoed its once-burgeoning repute – you’d have thought the fan movie would now be slinking off to the background of the dialog.

By some means, although, the alternative has confirmed to be true. Whispers are actually making the rounds on social media that threaten to plunge Lotus into a fair deeper and darker gap, with claims being made by Twitter (or X, no matter) person NirvanaM1ndDX that creator Gavin J. Konop was conscious of – and tried to cowl up – sexual misconduct allegations looming over Inexperienced Goblin star John Salandria, purportedly tied to an appearing scholar of his who was underneath the age of 18.

Not solely that, however additional claims have emerged providing that issues are going to by some means get even worse, with one person stating that there’s much more soiled laundry about to be aired, and the state of affairs may by some means on monitor to probably grow to be even worse.

The preliminary racist backlash sunk Lotus fully to start with, and whereas these are all simply unsubstantiated tales being perpetuated throughout on-line circles for now, the primary wave of accusations that destroyed Konop’s ardour mission initially started as a single social media submit earlier than exploding into widespread outrage and indignation.

As soon as upon a time, Jon Watts and Andrew Garfield have been proponents of Spider-Man: Lotus, however these days really feel like a very long time in the past after the mission has carried out nothing however run headlong into unsavory points solely of its personal making.