Nope it’s the average person still financially supporting JK Rowling by watching Fantastic Beasts and playing Hogwarts Legacy. We’re boycotting that stuff.
Kinda the opposite experience from me. I have heard it brought at the local brewery several times, and have even been asked directly what I thought of it as a non-binary person. Granted, that last one was with some regulars and they were legitimately asking if they should get their
HP tattoo covered, but still
I literally have not seen anything Harry Potter related outside of trans discussion since the release of that video game and 95% of what I saw about it was not to buy it because of jk.
It’s probably just that you’re not the target market for Harry Potter anymore and the only part of HP that’s still relevant to you is JKR and her transphobia.
HBO and their parent company Warner Bros are making a big deal out of their upcoming TV show. They own the rights to the films and merchandise and HP is a cash cow for them. They flopped with the Fantastic Beasts series, so you can bet there is going to be a push to try to cash in on nostalgia and novelty with the Harry Potter series.
You have not seen anything about the coming show, the universal Epic HP area and attraction, the theater play or the pop up events that they do in some cities every once in a while?
I think he has a point. In the last few years I only remember the release of Hogwarts Legacy which was related to Harry Potter. Never heard of a show, pop up events etc.
But the calls for boycott I see at least once a week here on Lemmy.
Maybe it would be better to just add that as comments to actual HP promo rather than giving it additional attention and relevance.
I’m the core demographic, I grew up with the books and a lot of friends are fans of the franchise so I do see a lot of stuff related to HP. I always post these kind of “memes” so my friends can see them and I tell them to stop giving money to JK Rowling at every mention of HP they make
Most of the people talking about Harry Potter and perpetuating its relevancy are trans people ironically
Nope it’s the average person still financially supporting JK Rowling by watching Fantastic Beasts and playing Hogwarts Legacy. We’re boycotting that stuff.
I don’t even think the average person plays Minecraft, the most popular game ever.
How do you figure that?
Anecdotally I see far far more posts and comments like the OP than I do people just talking about HP.
Kinda the opposite experience from me. I have heard it brought at the local brewery several times, and have even been asked directly what I thought of it as a non-binary person. Granted, that last one was with some regulars and they were legitimately asking if they should get their HP tattoo covered, but still
I literally have not seen anything Harry Potter related outside of trans discussion since the release of that video game and 95% of what I saw about it was not to buy it because of jk.
It’s probably just that you’re not the target market for Harry Potter anymore and the only part of HP that’s still relevant to you is JKR and her transphobia.
HBO and their parent company Warner Bros are making a big deal out of their upcoming TV show. They own the rights to the films and merchandise and HP is a cash cow for them. They flopped with the Fantastic Beasts series, so you can bet there is going to be a push to try to cash in on nostalgia and novelty with the Harry Potter series.
You have not seen anything about the coming show, the universal Epic HP area and attraction, the theater play or the pop up events that they do in some cities every once in a while?
I think he has a point. In the last few years I only remember the release of Hogwarts Legacy which was related to Harry Potter. Never heard of a show, pop up events etc.
But the calls for boycott I see at least once a week here on Lemmy.
Maybe it would be better to just add that as comments to actual HP promo rather than giving it additional attention and relevance.
I literally had no idea any of these were happening and I still wouldn’t had this meme not been made.
I’m the core demographic, I grew up with the books and a lot of friends are fans of the franchise so I do see a lot of stuff related to HP. I always post these kind of “memes” so my friends can see them and I tell them to stop giving money to JK Rowling at every mention of HP they make
Weird, but I also tend to run in nerdy circles. I have heard lots of other people talk about it just in passing and been asked directly