I love your videos!!! This is so good! Thank you for blessing us with this masterpiece. I'm not even a fan of star wars and i ate this up.

your voice is so beautiful and i also love your style, it looks cool

19:01 a toast to the late Ben Solo, he never scored.

i just stumbled upon this video and loved it! i was a huge hp fan and very much fan fiction and really liked this! i wish more video essays would explore this stuff and not just dunk ooo problematic stuff in harry potter. this was actually interesting!

I never watched star wars but I remember experiencing the fandom and reylo in real time from the outside on tumblr so this video is still interesting. I like your channel and the videos you've done so far! I look forward to any more you make in the future!

In my mind Harry got really into potions as a way to cope with the death of Severus and it ignited a new passion. He studied them and became a potions master. But no we get Wizard cop.

Gabriel's Inferno jumpscare 🫨🫨

While I'm definately in the "burner" category I must say you hit the nail on the head about the burners being "non-practicing". In my case it's a result of Rowling getting Universal to send Dueling Dragons to the scrapyard in 2017 and being a roller coaster fan (who has a damn near encyclopedic knowlege on the subject outside of the engineering as I'm no engineer, which I still know more than the average person about in terms of roller coasters) first and a Harry Potter fan second. As a result it was easy to burn it all in 2020 for me. I understand that's a very neiche position (Rowling attacking a fandom I care a lot about years before she went mask off transphobe, which hurts being trans but at least now I don't need to sound petty for hating her) so I 1000% support the "fuck it" croud that continues to write fanfic critical of her. And I'll add this: whoever came up with the theory that Rowling is Rita Skeeter is a genious, I want to see a full series among these fanfictions with that as the 1 rule to bind the universe. For me though, Bureau of Magical Things does it better (I've heard it compared to Fantastic Beasts, no it's what Fantastic Beasts SHOULD HAVE BEEN). As for wands at Universal, just go to Great Wolf Lodge and play MagiQuest. It's cheaper anyways and lets you be the main character of your magic story.

It's me, but in a different location! This is such a good video!!! Really well done, thank you for doing the dirty jobs even Mike Rowe wouldn't think of

Well now I know how many of my tbr books are reylo even though I havent watched the movies😂

I'm with you on My Roommate Is A Vampire!!! I've read a lot of books in this video (ironically the only one I haven't heard of is The Hurricane Wars), and MRIAV is easily one of the best

Just a quick correction about the end of the books - Harry is NOT revealed to be an Auror in the epilogue. (Just a dad!) That was JKR apocrypha until Cursed Child came out.

I’ve been on the internet for a while so jesus why did that explanation of the omega stuff actually make me sit here mouth agape. there is no way I could’ve been prepared to hear that

As far as Kylo's redemption goes, I strangely feel like Hux was originally meant to be the ultimate big bad in JJ's version of the Trilogy. Maybe it's because he was the one talking when all the planets blew up (spoilers, I guess) or maybe because he was the most obviously Nazi-Like of the bad guys but I definitely see a version where Kylo slowly realizes how he's been brainwashed, paralleling both the Storm Troopers and Darth Vader, the main he idolizes, while Hux leans into the power and control he's gained as a member of the Space Nazis. Not sure how Snoke plays into all of this, he'd probably still be killed off but by Hux this time. Sorry for the rant, great video, Poe and Finn deserve each other

im struggling to write a novel for my master's thesis and from the start i vowed to never rebrand my old gay fanfiction as a novel (mostly because i think it sucks) but after looking at this i think i might actually have a shot.

In Other Lands mentioned!!! ❤

excellent video thanks for keeping me company while i last-minute-pack

anyways incredible video 10/10 one day i will file the serial numbers off my own fanfic and publish a contemporary adult romance and i will include you in the acknowledgements

Wow!! I spend a lot of time on YT watching queer video essayists-I was an avid Lindsay Ellis fan and these days I watch a lot of Contrapoints, Verilibitchie, Alexander Avila, and Rowan Ellis. All this to say, I consume a lot of this content, and I am SO impressed that this is your first video! Your ideas are so clear and easy to follow, and this is such a fascinating and well-researched topic! I was genuinely sad to click into your channel and find it almost empty! I've liked and subscribed, I hope you keep them coming!

ill give the reylos this they can write a real good adult contemporary romance novel

I'm going to beg to differ. Nothing interesting happened in The Last Jedi, and you could cut the movie out of the trilogy and almost nothing would be lost. But then you can cut out the entire sequel trilogy, and nothing of value would be lost.

Oh boy. Shippers. You'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

"adam driver, a conventionally attractive man" i'mmmm sorry. maybe it's the lesbian in me but driver has got to be one of the most hideously arranged leading men i've ever seen. cannot cosign. oof.

It's a little sad that Finnrey is so unpopular compared to the other ships in the sequel trilogy. I shipped them before I even knew what a ship was, lol

Rip wayback machine, sob sob

of course "stevonnie" has thoughts on queering harry potter

Back in the day, I left a very cringe comment for that hilarious "Rey dumped Kylo in the garbage" fic. I've got better in the interim.

Voice Memos For the Void’s community post brought me here!

Okay but Adam Driver being conventionally attractive? Literally how?? I think you mean he's just a tall white guy.

i still like drarry. it’s fertile enemies-to-lovers soil, especially if you come at it canon divergence style. im also a multishipper though so the concept and quality of the fic is more important to me than the specific pairing

Fanfiction is something I've never interacted with. I don't even know where to begin. (obviously, not with Harry Potter, because I am by no means a fan)

Heterosexuality is a regime.

you look like Paul Dano and I think that's pretty neat

The three Reys all being friends is taking me out

I think a lot of fandoms go through changes, especially when they fall out of mainstream popularity.. Harry Potter is still really popular but it's not as popular as it wise. When the movies came out, with a new TV show coming out it might regain popularity and everybody might be talking about it... It... I've been in a lot of fandoms since I was in high school.. something that's never really gaining attraction, there's some rare pairings out there and rare fandoms.. but I kind of feel like it's normal for pairings and fandoms to dwindle a little bit.

good video and nice quilt

I was in the trenches at the time. 8th grade to 9th grade watching voltron and shipping reylo (as well as finnpoe because come on…)

Your final sentences gave me literal chills. Thank you for articulating the entire argument so beautifully.

THIS IS YOUR SECOND VIDEO???! looooord i feel like you’ve always been here!! haha can’t wait to see what you put out next!

the thing about children in romance novels that make you wonder if the author has ever met a child is so true...... but it is a pitfall I have fallen into before and I really can't blame authors for doing it because it is very fun. But it kind of flattens the genre when every single child character is precocious and witty and picks up on everything the MCs are too dense to notice.

honestly sad that people enjoy shitting on a random ship that is absolutely harmless and irrelevant except for the reylos and the people who base their personality around hating them.

Why do you look like Joe Hawley from Tally Hall

You know Rey could have been a mother to Kylo Ren

Goddddd the "people who menstrate" tweet still gets me so heated. Like, yes Joanne, we exist. Not everyone cursed to bleed once a month identifies as a woman. She sounds so ignorant in said tweet, and it really was a "oh so you suck as a person" full mask off moment.

This was a good video essay! Would you be interested in doing a video on the origin of "anti-shippers" and "pro-shippers"? I believe these terms have origins in the Reylo ship...

Before writing horrible shipping fanfics, every girl should ask herself the question "is this going to be something incels can point to and say this is why women shouldn't have rights?"

I'm in this video....and I like it. Great work. Seriously. The height of this fandom was so intense and fun and weird. Fanfiction unexpectedly changed my life and introduced me to some of my greatest friends. You're right in that fanfic writers generally aren't on panels and at book signings, but the actual act of *writing* fanfic is so much more fun and fulfilling than writing novels. Personally, I absolutely love the serial posting, the comments, the collaborations. I really miss it.

Good job mentioning black moon rising. Get ahead of the Jenny crowd

I disagree with your argument at the end I think. Do you think 10 year old queer kids are still obsessed with harry potter? Do you think they should be? Theyre watching the owl house and skibidi toilet, probably. There is nothing special about specifically harry potter fandom to be preserved, other than its size and thus the amount of people with nostalgia for it. I too, had my first experience with slash be wrt specifically Harry Potter, but Harry Potter itself was not the important part - you were! The community existing was the important part, not the specific media it was centered on! People do the same kind of identity formation with regard to other media, and I simply do not understand why you would want to stay attached to harry potter, or be sad that kids are finding things to fixate on other than what /you/ were fixated on.

I do want to point out that your methodology has a clear issue, which is that using the number of total fics in the tag through the wayback machine would include older fic imported over from other archives, which on AO3, and specifically regarding harry potter, happens regularly. The last specifically harry potter archive import was last january, and the last archive import overall was only 10 days ago, ignoring individuals deciding to import their fics on their own. My methodology would be to use the "updated from [date] to [date]" feature, to only get *new* fics, ignoring old imports. For example, your graph indicates that about 7500 new drarry fics were posted in 2017, which might be true, but only 4171 of those seem to be *written* in 2017. Other years, such as 2015 (about 2600 vs about 2500) are much closer in number. Granted, this decrease could also be people deleting older fics (possibly because of JKR), but i dont know why 2015 drarry fans would be that much less likely to delete their fics than 2017 drarry fans.