I remember plenty of petitions to strike it from the canon or keep it from being distributed, and I don't think you know about the YouTube vitriol. It was immense. It was the most disliked trailer of all time. Ever.
It got more vitriol precisely because it was all women, and then didn't make that much money, and the critics also didn't like it. TLJ got glowing reviews and was also a big smash, so that dampened some of the Ghostbusters effect. But for my money that was much, much worse than what TLJ got.
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http://screencrush.com/ghostbusters-trailer-most-disliked-movie-trailer-in-history/
It was one of the first times the fanboys successfully fucked up online ratings to the extent 538 wrote about it
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/ghostbusters-is-a-perfect-example-of-how-internet-ratings-are-broken/
It got more vitriol precisely because it was all women, and then didn't make that much money, and the critics also didn't like it. TLJ got glowing reviews and was also a big smash, so that dampened some of the Ghostbusters effect. But for my money that was much, much worse than what TLJ got.