Hey, nobody said social media invented bullying or crazy fans but it sure is easier for wild takes to find an audience when there's platforms that help them spread.
Relative rankings say nothing about whether something over- or underperformed. That's entirely about studio expectations. Something could make 1b US$ but if they expected it to make 2b, it still underperformed even if it beat every other movie in that year by a mile.
There's a BIG difference between "this didn't make as much money as we expected" and "this made more money than something else".