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Yeah, this comes from a weird place that like all franchises just deserve to live on forever or something. How many people are still talking about MASH, one of the most watched television shows of its time? Or more recently Twilight, which at one time redefined an entire literary genre and had the biggest films in the world, much like Harry Potter? Obviously, I don't discount at all Rowling's everything she's done to harm her brand thing here, but why is the baseline assumption that Harry Potter should live on forever? Media franchises come and go all the time.
It’s the millennials, or at least the ones that get into the position of writing op-eds for the NY Crimes, having an existential crisis over the fact that the defining media franchise of their youth doesn’t have what it takes to become one of the timeless classics. It gives them the feeling that their cultural moment will fade.
Doing the “kids these days don’t know how telegraph works” but with JK Transphobe’s mediocre fiction novels
The bourgeoisie of any generation always seem to do this, try to hold onto cultural relevance for as long as possible. Weirdly enough it should still be “millennial’s day” in a normal world now with them leading the charge.
Like part of maturity should be accepting not everything in your day was a winner.
Yeah the oldest millennials are in their mid forties, forget middle management there’s some of them in upper management now. Yet there’s still this attitude in most organizations of “Millennials are the kids in the room, they don’t get to run stuff yet.” So the Millennials are stuck in this spot where Gen X and Boomers treat them like kids and Zoomers see them as old and out of touch.
At some point the word "millennial" for boomers and gen X just became a generic synonym for "young person," I've seen the word applied to kids born in 2010.
I call 'em like I see 'em
Harry Potter: loser
Dragon Ball Z: Winner
Someday Dragon Ball Super apologists are going to become normal, like Star Wars prequel apologists
At least we can safely say GT apologists will never surface, right?
Right?
It’s because we’re in the modern era of the mega franchise where they stay relevant far past their prime. Everybody wants to be like Marvel in the 2010’s, so now any series that’s had a history of great popularity is getting reboots, remakes, tv spin-offs, etc.
Harry Potter’s growth is largely attributed to the media urge to get their own mega franchise after seeing just how popular Pokémon had become worldwide, as well as Scholastic losing their golden goose of Goosebumps because of legal issues with R.L. Stine.
There were attempts to do to Harry Potter what they’ve been doing with other franchises but only mixed results have come. The Fantastic Beasts series failed, the broadway spin-off play failed, and the tv show looks like it won’t be received well.
Only the movies and the Universal theme park have had success. Hogwarts Legacy was very popular but it didn’t last much longer after its release date.
Something that’s left out is Harry Potter still being very popular in the global south. A lot of young kids read it when they start to learn English and if anything it’s made a bit of a comeback, at least from what I’ve seen in my area.
On the other hand, I’m pretty happy that Percy Jackson seems to be doing well again despite the original movies being God awful. People told me they were “fad books” but I got more out of them than I did with Harry Potter.
That is very interesting and makes a lot of sense. I'm talking mad shit about HP but its engaging to first-time readers and the reading level ramps up as the series progresses, which is useful for teaching first and second languages.
Same in South America tbh, but, I have noticed that there was a major decline in HP stuff since the 2010s. Manga and Comics are still very popular, mostly because they are translated and localized to Spanish and Portuguese very well since at least the 1970s.
I definitely talk about MASH. But most of the time I first have to explain what MASH was.
BTW all of MASH is on archive.org
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I will never stop talking about MASH