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You still see a lot of #HarryPotter merchandise around and I do wonder how much #JKRowling has damaged her own brand.

I mean, things naturally go out of fashion, so it's hard to say if it's just newer generations interested in something else instead.

But her ghastly Fantastic Beasts crap is lousy and convoluted and I've no interest in that at all. I imagine a load of kids not being interested in it too.

But then, I assume kids like all those crappy superhero movies, so idk.
#harrypotter #jkrowling
Lydia Conwell
But I do think, as a writer, Rowling slowly destroyed her brand. The more she wrote, the more holes in the stories. And the Fantastic Beasts thing is all over the place. Is it for adults or kids?

The answer: neither, it's crappy.

Rowling probably should have stuck to a #TerryPrachett style of writing and kept the Harry Potter world a nonsense world.

The plot holes wouldn't matter so much then.
#TerryPrachett
Andre Louis
I read the books when much younger. These days I'm heavily invested in the fanfic world and only read those. For the real books I stopped caring after book 5 anyway, 6 and 7 felt trite and utterly incompetent, and I'm a diehard 'NEVER Harry/Ginny pairing' because it disgusts me.
Yeah I know, way too invested in the thing, but just no...
Lydia Conwell
I never read book 7.

Order of the Phoenix was the worst. A poorly structured book of mostly uneventful sub plots.

But I remember liking the book initially because Harry was angry and it felt like suddenly he had a personality.
Andre Louis
Many fanfic authors just dismiss 7 as well, especially the epilog. It was shit.
Lydia Conwell
I feel like I want to read it now.
Andre Louis
There should be a warning on it.
'If you read this book and hate it, you can't unread it.'

do let me know if you do though haha
Mr Bitterness
The super hero movies seem to be more supported by adolescent adults who follow this shit with way more vigor than they do the actual circumstances of the world around them. But I could be wrong. I don't have proximity to kids in my day to day. Online, it's all adults that give a shit about the closing credit scenes/easter eggs, multiverse blather.
Lydia Conwell
Yes, I'm just going by what I see online and by how many superhero movies there are.

The whole multiverse thing is a huge con. It's basically a way to redo an old idea then sell it to the public as something original. It plays on people's obsessions and needs to be a superhero connoisseur.

But the multiverse also allows makers to do a bad job, then just say, 'Oh well, that was just one version.'
rfg
Nowadays I think, it's all marketed through the newer potter-world video games (whatever they're callled). That's what pulls in new people into the movies or books.

Also, being a nazi sock-puppet gives her the benefit of their online propaganda network, which will push potter products from time to time. These I've noticed.
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Lydia Conwell
What does o/l mean?
rfg
online
Lydia Conwell
I see. Who pushes Harry Potter products?

Are you saying right wing bloggers and vloggers advertise HP?
rfg
vloggers, yes. The streamer/reaction types that generally function as a marketing arm of mainstream hollywood.

I don't think her younger target audience will read a blog.
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