Harry Potter and the journos who didn't learn

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[–]LtGreenCo 9 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

There was a lot of talk after Hogwarts Legacy’s sales that the boycott didn’t work, but I’m not so sure that’s true.

then later:

The fact is a huge chunk of the people who bought the Harry Potter game did so sheepishly, with faux apologies offered, and some content creators avoided or ditched the game after their community asked them to.

(Emphasis mine)

Sorry to burst your bubble but if a metric fuck-ton of people purchase a product you're trying to boycott, then the boycott didn't fucking work.

[–]OuroborosTheory 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

"people had to be secretive because we'd swarm them and try to shut down everything they had"

[–]The_Best_Yak_Ever 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Exactly! They didn’t ask shit. They were an invasive swarm of semi sentient cyber herpes that crybullied anyone no didn’t do what they demanded. Like always.

[–]OuroborosTheory 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

that's also why the tide changes so fast, because only 10% of them are ideologues actually coming up with stuff like "men can't be raped!" but the other 90% has to nod along like hostages since mom the administratum/HR/forum admins will punish even suspicion of disagreement

then when the radfems or Robin DiAngelo trip up, they get yeeted and everyone pretends that what they believe NOW is an eternal truth that they discovered

many subconsciously know that people are still daring to THINK different from them, and that drives them up the wall that they can't crack open everyone's skull and reshuffle the goo inside: it's a reverse Acton's Law where the LEAST power goes the fastest to their head (mall cops, hall monitors, HOAs, online simps for incompetent political candidates)