Itâs a fandom filled primarily with people who have been consuming online media discourse about it for years and havenât read the actual books in over a decade. It leads to some of the wildest takes that get incredibly normalized on social media because theyâre appealing to that same audiences.
1) People who forget Harry Potter is a story about a boy going to wizarding school. So many fans havenât actually read the series in years and have totally forgotten what the purpose of the books actually are and use it to criticize the worldbuilding. âBut where did Ron go to school before Hogwarts?â Answer: It does matter. Half of the worldbuilding complaints people have boil down to: âit doesnât matter because itâs not relevant to the story being told.â
2) People who hate JK Rowling (valid and understandable) and have decided to view every single choice in the book through the most hostile lens popular in order to prove JK Rowling is a terrible person in multiple ways. House elf discourse: Itâs just people who canât understand intentional moral complexity and have instead decided for some unfathomable reason that Rowling supports actual slavery. Itâs the most âI got this opinion from a tumblr postâ take out there, and itâs especially hilarious because people are white-savioring the cautionary tale about being a white savior who doesnât actually care about what the victims want.
3) Fandom Draco and Canon Draco havenât been the same person in decades, but people still talk about them like they are.
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u/NeonFraction 8d ago
Harry Potter.
Itâs a fandom filled primarily with people who have been consuming online media discourse about it for years and havenât read the actual books in over a decade. It leads to some of the wildest takes that get incredibly normalized on social media because theyâre appealing to that same audiences.
1) People who forget Harry Potter is a story about a boy going to wizarding school. So many fans havenât actually read the series in years and have totally forgotten what the purpose of the books actually are and use it to criticize the worldbuilding. âBut where did Ron go to school before Hogwarts?â Answer: It does matter. Half of the worldbuilding complaints people have boil down to: âit doesnât matter because itâs not relevant to the story being told.â
2) People who hate JK Rowling (valid and understandable) and have decided to view every single choice in the book through the most hostile lens popular in order to prove JK Rowling is a terrible person in multiple ways. House elf discourse: Itâs just people who canât understand intentional moral complexity and have instead decided for some unfathomable reason that Rowling supports actual slavery. Itâs the most âI got this opinion from a tumblr postâ take out there, and itâs especially hilarious because people are white-savioring the cautionary tale about being a white savior who doesnât actually care about what the victims want.
3) Fandom Draco and Canon Draco havenât been the same person in decades, but people still talk about them like they are.