#that's why I try to limit “book Howl vs movie Howl stuff on my page”
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nadiajustbe · 3 days ago
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I think a big problem with hmc book content at Tiktok (and also almost every social that is not this hellsite including twitter), is that how movie-centred it still remains. No negativity to movie fans, certainly, it's just the movie and the book are two very different stories, and when I search for hmc book content I want to have well, hmc book content.
Instead of that almost 80% you got are "book versus movie" or "did you know a Howl's Moving Castle is based on a BOOK??" type of videos, mostly targeted specifically on the movie hmc fans to know more "fan facts" about the book, which is, usually, a pretty basic information for anyone who read the said book at least once. Yes, I know that Howl is Welsh. Yes, I know Sophie is a Witch. Yes, I know she has two sisters. Yes, I know Howell Jenkins is a little pathetic idiot.
It's like none of these stuff is actually targeted on an actual book hmc fanbase, and builds everything around it on a movie comparison, instead of, well, making stuff about the book? It would be plausible If movie and the book were similar, like H*rry Potter movies, for example, but they're NOT. The stories are so different they can and should exist as pretty much separate entities.
And all of the wonderful videos targeted on book fans with an actual content for book fans that is NOT "did you know in the book.." kinda gets lost in the sea of the other contentmakers. It's extremely difficult to find a hmc book video that doesn't mentions the hmc movie even once and it's not BAD but it feels like you cannot actually have a content made for you.
I can hardly find memes, or headcanons, or funny videos that are not just repeating the information I already know for like five years.
It's like having a star younger sibling that gets brings up in the every conversation about you and you cannot stop it.
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