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pikachugirltits · 2 years ago

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You pretty much already hit the nail on the head as to why: Notch doesn't make money off of Minecraft anymore, while Rowling still actively profits from all things Harry Potter.

The pushback against people consuming Harry Potter, especially new Harry Potter media, has a lot less to do with ideological purity or anything like that and everything to do with the fact that Rowling is actively funneling her wealth into supporting transphobic groups and movements. Every penny someone spends on anything Harry Potter is lining her pocket, and she uses that money to do harm.

Ngl it’s kinda perplexing that between Harry Potter and Minecraft, both creators are transphobic but one property is fine and the other is not. Like I get that notch isn’t getting money anymore (and I’m not invested in either of these properties, never have been), but it’s curious to me how many trans people flock to Minecraft despite its creators roots of being a bastard

#now there's a lot of other conversations we can have as well about Harry Potter vs Minecraft and why one is ''ok'' and the other isn't #like how Minecraft is a very transformative/customizable experience at core vs Harry Potter being a story you passively experience #how Harry Potter has quite a few problematic elements to it in the text even if we try to ignore the author's bigotry #how even if Rowling recieved no money from it the new HP game is deeply antisemitic #I've heard complaints about Minecraft's villagers being antisemitic and I agree that Microsoft should probably change them #but lots of people have already modded the game to fix that so...#anyways I'm rambling now so I'll just leave it at this

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