So I've now finished researching all the YouTube vids related to this topic from users who have any kind of following.
The overwhelming consensus was negative. And I do mean overwhelming. As you can imagine, quite a few of the video were from right wing commentators and people who became associated with gamergate, or who generally make a living out of regular videos about such things, these were to be expected.
What was added on top of this to make it overwhelming was that just about everyone else didn't like it either. All the black guy vloggers didn't like it just as much as any white guy vloggers, who mostly seemed confused by the decision. But not only this but pretty much all the female vloggers didn't like the idea either.
I even saw one vlog by a popular black female feminist who was really quite upset about it all. Even without any interest in Bond, her hot-take was a surprisingly accurate one about how whenever black women are represented in big action movies they're always portrayed as "bald, aggressive, overly-independent", and "where's my black petite and cute feminine types that quite like the idea of supportive males.". And she meant black black, not brown black.
And thinking about this, she makes a really great point. This was the video which made me think the most and when I did think about it all I could think about were the many examples of crew-cutted ultra-aggressive black ladies in big action movies.
I saw two videos which were unabashedly positive about the move. One was a sort of 'nerd culture' type magazine programme where the smiles seemed glued on and the script heavily pre-planned, eyes strangely focused and borderline psychotic etc. Even their vid had vastly more downvotes than upvotes, even by the standard of their own fans. And this was the case with all vids that showed anything other than scepticism.
The other unabashedly positive one was the most viewed but also least youtubey, that of the Daily Show with Steven Colbert, who got a huge whoop of cheers and excitement from his studio audience as he relayed the information with a huge grin on his face, presumably because this news will annoy his enemies on 'the right', even though Bond has never been a political boundary kind of franchise and, if it was, it's more communistic than free-market, what with Bond being a function of the taxman and all. Even his vid had vastly more downvotes than upvotes.
There were about three other videos that liked the news, but in each case they liked it because the video consisted of them taking the piss out of Ben Shapiro's reaction, to which I've no doubt they do on a weekly basis whatever the topic. And I have to admit, even if you don't like the news, Ben Shapiro is a laughably weird social commentator and one can't help liking a popular YouTube commenter who stated "This is all just a really expensive way to piss of Ben Shapiro isn't it." And there's probably more truth in that than anything else.
The main issue seems to be the line that's crossed when the moniker 007 is given to anyone other than James Bond. Had she been 008 or 005 or whatever then no-one would have batted an eyelid. But it seems the person who wrote her as 007 wanted people to bat their eyelids, which is what the problem is, it seems so forced and designed to be intentionally controversial that it kinda stumbles like a poorly timed joke rather than catch any particular right-on relevant mood.
There's been a certain segment of society that has never liked Bond, even in 1962:
And they always have been just an extremely vocal minority who sometimes manage to get their way. This current lot aren't so worried about the violence though it seems, just as long as a woman's performing it then it's ok
My favourite comment I saw on any of the videos was "Great, at least now my collection will be complete!"
Which if you don't have the collector gene you will probably not understand or appreciate.