Guess I am glad I never liked Harry Potter growing up
JK doesn’t get money for all of the items. She sold off rights or partial rights to things like the games and movies and representation in theme parks.
That is a very short sighted perspective.
Jk sells for rights for x. buyer uses rights to create products, because buyer thinks it will boost sales. People buy products because of HP and sales are boosted. Buyer is happy.
Time passes.
Bought rights expire, buyer made a lot of money. Buyer wants to buy the rights again.
Alternatively
Buyer 2 sees success, wants a piece of the pie, buys rights from jk.
If you boycott HP, buyer wasted a lot of money and will not pay for an extension of the rights.
Whatever happened to separating art and artist? I swear to God no one is more on someone's dick than an HP fan scorned. I get it jk is a fucking bitch but I'm not giving up good stories I grew up with because the twat who wrote it needs a good face punching.
If we did this with everything basically all entertainment would be fucked completely. But no we just have a hard-on for potter fans apparently. Easy targets I guess. Easier at least than sorting through all the media you love, to see if it stars Uncle touchy or the Weinsteins
Yeah, I'm gonna stop enjoying fun books or movies because somebody else is upset about the author...
Some of the most ludicrous people I used to know are... very queer and proud, self describe as 'leftists', and are also mega Potterheads, all at the same time.
Everytime I'd mention that Rowling is a POS, I would literally be shushed, and mean mugged.
Ironically (or perhaps not?) one of these people would later be fired from their job for racial insensitivity.
???????
Cognitive dissonance is really something else.
Honestly I only got the urge to watch the movies again because people on Lemmy wouldn't shut up about her
The books are good and the movies are good. Young people of the internet forget the kind of childish shit we had before Harry Potter.
Also the movies have fucking Hans Gruber who tries to kill John McPotter and that was awesome.
At first I was like "not this shit again, let people enjoy stuff even if you don't like it's creator, stop being bitter about some dickhead's wellbeing"
But then I saw what they're referring to. Fucking hell.
Sure, Karen.
I liked the (first four) movies. Honestly awesome if short Alan Rickman screentime. I pirated them. I watch hem whenever I want, not when you think I have to be a soldier for your cause, and that bitch still don't get a cent from me.
Like, sure, conveniently I won't have any spare time to rewatch them this month, but that's because life is busy not becuse you think you're right.
You're really giving off "you can't tell me what to do" vibes on par with angsty teenagers and black conservatives. But good on you for pirating.
My wife's name is Karen. We have multiracial friends, gay and trans friends, and we don't demand to speak to the manager. But she has to put up with the name she received at birth being used as a lazy slang term for horribleness - which to me is one of the most hypocritical behaviors a trans person or ally can engage in. But that's just like, my opinion, man.
edit: Just checking back... yep, predictable burst of douchvotes. There are over 1.5 million people named Karen in the US alone, and you haven't met most of them, but go ahead and defend demonizing their names to object to bad behavior - how fucking enlightened!
just call her K-dawg
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