JK Rowling Does Not Own Harry Potter

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Today we do a quick detour into the world of Harry Potter, Fanfiction, Intellectual Property, and how you can make your own Headcanon, no matter what JK Rowling says.
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[@bowen13]

My favorite authors growing up were Lovecraft and Orson Scott Card, so I learned how to separate art and artist a long time ago lol

[@MisterZimbabwe]

To be fair to both you and Lovecraft, he (Lovecraft) DID gradually become more tolerant and accepting as he got older. He even called out the republican party for being the ass-backwards pro-corporate lunatics they have become today: "As for the Republicans -- how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, [and] steel their emotions against decent human sympathy." -Lovecraft. He also switched his views on Judaism and Jews (His wife was Jewish, after all, and quotes we can find from her indicate that his bigotry was almost entirely born from ignorance and a childhood of being isolated from other people plus being raised by impoverished, mentally ill blue blooded jackasses.

[@NIL0S]

Lovecraft at least had a bit of a redemption story in his later years.

[@jfarrar19]

​@NIL0S Lovecraft writes a letter saying "maybe rascism is bad" then dies like 3 days later. Clarity near the end i guess

[@cmmosher8035]

Maybe i will try Card against when he's neighbours with HPL.

[@InnuendoXP]

Amazing how the author of Speaker for the Dead; an utter treatsie of moral relavitism, culminating in that saga's zenith of a moral dilemma of whether eliminating an unconscious unfeeling virus that poses an existential threat to all life in the galaxy is an immoral act of genocide - chooses IRL to stick his flag in the ground of "Gay Marriage Bad 😡"

[@Seetor]

No matter which side of the debate you're on, we can all agree that Hatsune Miku wrote this video.

[@Katyamuffin]

I thought it was Tommy Tallarico

[@AdroSlice]

Man, I love the old coldmirror synchros.

[@Nerobyrne]

best shit on German KZbin ^^ (I have no idea I hate German KZbin for some reason lol)

[@toolatetothestory]

They are classics. Once met a guy in the mental ward who only knew Harry Potter through the Coldmirror parodies. Also by far the most stereotypically gay, yet also most offensively fun guy I have ever met.

[@NoelleBaba]

Well yeah, Hatsune Miku wrote Harry Potter

[@Howl-Runner]

Who?

[@eztak.]

​@@Howl-Runner Hatsune Miku, the same one who made Minecraft

[@TheGrinningViking]

I liked her work on Goncharov more. HP was a real step down.

[@mahtimonni97]

Wait... I thought it started out as a stage play, written by Team Starkid. It was then adapted into a book form by Daniel Radcliffe.

[@alinbozga4497]

This statements were verified by the real followers of the enigmata.

[@fuzzytransmissionman]

"Potterian State Apperatus" has been forever incorperated into my vocabulary.

[@bastionshadowpaw]

-angry werewolf waiting-

[@antitheist3206]

Imagine he does Demon: the Fallen next, just to post WtA last out of the original games.

[@bastionshadowpaw]

@@antitheist3206 at this point is personal XD (jk please take good care of yourself my dude, and good luck on college.)

[@Frozenskull4249]

as someone currently procrastinating due to an exam tomorrow, I feel you. Good luck on your Klausuren :)

[@hughmungusbungusfungus4618]

I wouldn't agree that poly juice potion reinforces trans ideals. I have a couple reasons for this. 1. You can't turn into a version of yourself who is a different sex. Rather, you have to pick a person to transform into. 2. The change is temporary, requiring the continued ingestion of the potion, as seen in The Goblet of Fire. 3. The novels actually don't depict anyone changing their sex so it's implied that that can't actually be done.

[@anakinb]

Totally totally get what you’re saying and I would say I agree with your general perspective for sure but isn’t it a major plot point in the deathly hallows that a whole bunch of Harry’s friends turn into him using polyjuice, including Fleur who is a woman?

[@hughmungusbungusfungus4618]

​@@anakinbOh yeah, I forgot about that bit. Still, even if poly juice potion can change you into someone with a different sex, the change is to another, existing individual and it's temporary. Also, the books certainly mention how off-putting the whole experience is, repeatedly.

[@anakinb]

@@hughmungusbungusfungus4618 absolutely agreed

[@aleksandrakrolak]

Aren't trans people forced to take hormones for the rest of their lives? Like - in order to stay who "you want to be", you're forced to take this artificially made chemical from time to time... (or something, I may be stoopid today 🤪)

[@robertgronewold3326]

I absolutely LOVE the Wizarding World in general, but something I have wanted to have happen for years now is other authors and story tellers getting more say in the universe. It's very much a universe that can keep expanding like Star Wars, but JKR needs to release her hold on it. Allow writers from Brazil and Japan and Australia into the world and expand on the worldbuilding, because JKR is very VERY British and it shows in her knowledge of the greater world at times. If a book is ever set at Ilvermorny school in America, someone who is actually from North America and who could incorporate places and locations with better skill should be at the helm of the narrative.

[@samsmoot1]

How about authors create their own universes? I just don't get it when demands are made for artistic works to be 'just so'. Tim Pool was moaning about his superhero comics being spoiled by wokeness: go and read some Matt Baker, is what I say, or any one of a million other comics. And as wizards aren't real, I don't know why anyone would be wanting in on the action so badly - make up your own fairy world for God's sake. Unless it's a parody, such as Bored of the Rings, of course. If JK Rowling has a 'hold' on her intellectual property, what business of anyone else's is that? You seem to be asserting some kind of immorality on Rowling's part, and sound like the video game player I heard recently who was saying Nintendo games belong to everyone, not just Nintendo. He would have liked to have continued to download ROMS freely, and was annoyed he could no longer do so. I thought this to be a rather silly view. The Internet Archive also think they can do what they like with other people's artistic work, so this attitude towards copyright infringement isn't uncommon.

[@Brigtzen]

because people like the franchise? Also they can't just "make a new universe" exactly like the existing work because that's just stealing@@samsmoot1

[@swisigah1306]

​@samsmoot1 let me take you back about 10 or so years, before Disney acquired Star Wars there were tons of equally well loved books in the extended universe taking place both before and after the films and it helped flesh out the world building of the movies. All a writer had to do is ask George Lucas for permission and submit a copy for quality control (or so I've been told) and then if it passed by Lucas's standards, then it got to be published as part of the Canon. This is exactly what the original comment suggests.

[@robertgronewold3326]

@@samsmoot1 What I was saying is that a franchise of this scale needs more than one voice to adequately tell stories. You're the one blurting about 'wokeness'. I just think a story about Japanese wizards set in this PARTICULAR universe would be better if written by an actual Japanese person. And authors are already and have always been telling their own wizard stories. Some just would like to tell an official story in this one. I could easily write my own space opera, but it would be amazing to write an official story set in the Star War universe if given the chance. There is a difference.

[@robertgronewold3326]

@@swisigah1306 Yep, precisely this! ☺

[@nathandavidson7298]

I completely agree Burger. Now 30 Hs though.. that’s the greatest addition to the world of Harry Potter that has ever, or will ever exist. Truly a masterpiece that no mortal author can replicate again.

[@marksharpe5384]

Part of the problem is understanding of different Nations / States copyright laws and copyright laws how the potential of always needing to defend your copyright which practically impossible with the internet.

[@NIL0S]

Death of the author camp here, pretty much.

[@muma-kitty1639]

unfortunately, she isnt dead yet. and is very much using her wealth tho make life hell for people she doesnt like

[@NIL0S]

That's not what "death of the author" is about 😂

[@BonusEggs4Sale]

It's still shitty fantasy, no matter who wrote it

[@intranexine8901]

I absolutely agree, but as opposed to usual you didn't read my mind so I'll just add my thoughts. The way I see it, fictional usiverses and the fandoms attached to them are not IP, but a Culture and culture belongs to the ones practicing it, they at the end hold the reigns to the francise more then any author or corporate entity ever could. In the long run, the fans decide what's the cannon and what's AU.

[@oxylepy2]

The Forgotten Realms. For 1 dollar Ed Greenwood sold the setting to TSR, he put in tons of work, wrote books in the setting, and has made the world absolutely amazing, and other authors were able to add to and expand on the setting into something phenominal. And now Hasbro owns it, and Hasbro has been about as toxic as any corporation can be, despite this beautifully crafted world being the effort of many, Hasbro as the only ones getting anything from it now.

[@jordanarnold6783]

It's always a joy to see you update, BK. Hope school is going well!

[@connerblank5069]

In my experience, some aspect of a story being trash is actually an _asset_ for a literary work's longevity. Perfect masterworks are all well and good, but most amateurs are intimidated by that kind of quality. Meanwhile fandom _can't get enough_ of fixing shit that's obviously broken.

[@tylerreed610]

The Athurian stories are a good example of shared storytelling. Shit got told, retold, and added to for a few hundred years

[@brightspear]

A video on fanfiction from the burger would be paradise...

[@Katyamuffin]

He did read My Immortal on a livestream, if those videos still exist I highly recommend

[@ATurnip]

​@@Katyamuffinthey do

[@kyleshurmur-dg3kq]

As the author of Harry Potter, Rowling, 57, also owns the rights to the franchise's intellectual property, meaning that she earns royalties based on revenue generated from sales of the book, Harry Potter merchandise, the films, the Warner Brothers theme park, and the recently-released Hogwarts Legacy) just found this on Google so what Ur saying in absolute waffle mate don't make a video on legal shit if u have no clue what Ur saying I had a feeling she was not stupid and did not sell her creation 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@baddragonite]

It's funny you bring up Lovecraft cause the company that makes the Call of Cthulhu tabletop game has tried to copyright claim other creators several times lol Thankfully as far as I know they failed

[@jaredgreen2363]

Well, canon has absolutely nothing to do with copyright. Fictional canons aren’t typically dictated by law(that would be stupid even for politicians and lawyers)

[@felixheitzer2262]

Funnily enough: the early christian churches are deamed the literal inventors of the concept of canon.

[@scoops237]

Just do what Battletech did with it's cartoon and call it in-universe propaganda. Voldemort wasn't actually cartoonishly evil and instead a populist figure arguing for more democratic control over the governing organs of the magic world. The establishment- somewhat reasonably- assumed the absolute worst in this because magic is an easily abused tool assumed that Voldemort was actually advancing the interests of extremist factions like mage supremacists and organized crime when in reality he thought the exact opposite. Their inability to reconcile lead to the political establishment ordering a hit on him and invented the Harry Potter character out of near thin air to excuse it away.

[@jfarrar19]

I mean, the essentially did that with the prequel movies where they made the man who said "maybe we shouldnt let the holocaust happen" into a villian.

[@rhiwright]

Voldemort and his death eaters were a metaphor for fascism. You're supporting wizard Hitler? really?

[@scoops237]

@@rhiwright "In-Universe Propaganda." Meaning you could swing it any way you want.

[@szymonskalka3319]

This is brilliant.

[@creed8712]

@@jfarrar19I mean, magneto is still a villain. Genocide to stop genocide is still evil

[@alexp.4270]

Thank you for the thought and care that goes into these videos, Burger.

[@xensoldier]

I look forward to the Krieggypotter series you're super secretly hinting at!

[@amadeusfuzz4320]

I wrote fantastic beasts fan fiction before I knew what fan fiction was

[@acertainredpanda1115]

I run a D&D campaign set in the Harry Potter universe, but on a different school. It's some of the most fun I've ever had roleplaying. Most things I add fit the existing canon, or are like things Rowling would come up with. One player even wrote a huge backstory for the origin of house elves, as he plays one. Yes, sometimes there is a little contradiction (one character can speak parseltongue altough he is not a descendant of slytherin) and everything works fine. It's our canon, the books are the base, but we expand on it in our own way, and this makes us feel very involved and immersed.

[@SynAsynja]

Actually not a contradiction! While most (british) parselmouths can trace their lineage back to slytherin that's not true for all of them, and there are parselmouths predating slytherin as well.

[@Sarcastic_Sophist]

Funnily enough I have been in a dnd game inspired by the percy jackson series for about a year now. The DM went through and really added to the world and characters. Fleshing out a lot of the side characters, as well as giving every halfblood their own unique abilities. While I was initially quite reluctant to join it has turned into my favorite game I play in.

[@dr.j.redacted3679]

yea the coldmirrorsyncs are german cultural heritage but im meeting people more and more that are unfamiliar and it breaks my heart

[@drakethesnek6429]

JKR is right.

[@EmilForsberg_GRYBO]

I agree, the lore that matters to you personally is really what's important, and it encurages discussion of all these fictional universes

[@Katyamuffin]

Good luck with uni, Burgerman!

[@rained649]

skibidi toilet isn't that bad. as an adult it's more entertaining than paw patrol, although obviously not as education or appropriate for kids.

[@Fusseliko]

It's just the newest incarnation of GMOD shorts, we've had those for over a decade. Remember Rubberfruit, Kitty0706 and DasBoSchitt? Pepperidge farm remembers.

[@rained649]

@@Fusseliko i know that.

[@Fusseliko]

@@rained649 My bad, I didn't mean for that to come off as if I was correcting you. I was just adding my own thoughts to yours.

[@rained649]

@@Fusseliko it's fine. 👍

[@Bermeslivre]

To be fair, anything is better than canine copaganda.

[@Nagasakevideo]

I can assure you burger, I hated Harry Potter long before I found out about JK Rowling's beliefs. This series is genuinely a combination of every trope i hate in fiction combined and I cannot think of a single one that it doesn't have

[@Seetor]

Diego Tropez sounds like a Spanish explorer

[@Alejojojo6]

@@Seetor As a Spaniard, such name sounds like the one a foreigner would create to make it sound spanish while in Spain or in Spanish, such a name doesnt even exist and sounds unrealistic and weird.

[@tompuce84]

8:57 Johnny Jimbo Scaldface, haaa... truly one of the greats :D

[@Nerobyrne]

it's really hilarious how corporate goons are constantly trying to save money on production and then wonder why the general public looks at their products and sais "This is worthless!"

[@Tjthekiller24]

Fuck it, I’ve been sitting on a top tier Harry Potter spin off idea for about a year now and this video is the universe telling me to do it.

[@Eligha_]

I just watched that video before this and I was jumpscared by beardless Burger

[@propoppop9866]

Where was it ever cannon that the same person was in each questline? We know sheogorpah is defintely the hero of kevach but i dont think we got confirmation of any of the other questlines

[@afbee]

The Harry Potter Book series is pretty good ad I love the series, but I've also read a lot of books before them so I don't put them on a pedestal. I think Terry Pratchett has better books IMO.

[@jddes]

.esoprup no em rof egassem a ni tup ot nosrep ylno eht er'uoy dna won morf keew a ecnis ebutuoY no emit hguorht sdrawkcab gnillevart neeb ev'I ,hcum os uoy knahT

[@Seetor]

Need help?

[@vxicepickxv]

​@@Seetoronly if their time travel is involuntary.

[@wabbajack2]

I'm only about five minutes into the video, but... am I missing something?

[@pzaypraxis95]

My problem with official lore being bad is that it 1. Can't be undone without a hard reboot or a major retcon and 2. It's the lore going forward, every other production of the ip is going to follow the terrible lore set up from before. It's what keeps happening to mortal Kombat since 2011.

[@Evergreen_Wizard]

It’s a delight to hear you talk about the ancient phenomenon of collaborative storytelling! Modern world is defined by parasitic capitalistic restrictions, and copyright is one of the most parasitic one of them. This makes us forget that humans used to iterate upon already existing tales, forming mythologies and folklores. We have been gaslit into thinking that copyright is natural, as well as all of similar profit-related relationships within consumerism. Also don’t listen to people who try and defend J.K. Rowling in the comments, they are obviously blindly clinging to a set of familiar ideas without questioning them. I actually live in a country where “The Face-Eating Leopard Party” came to hold absolute power, and the laws that started with restricting LGBTQ+ people slowly but surely became just about restricting *everyone’s* personal lives. When you allow certain groups to be stripped of freedom, you pave the way for everyone to be enslaved. Conservative values are never about good, they are always about control and tyranny in the end.

[@kylegovender6211]

6:50 hit the nail on the head with that one The man wasn't even that bad in comparison to the man of steel That man consistently pisses me off

[@Petgirl_sophie]

I wish good fortune upon your university experience Burger!

[@swordbladedevil]

Cornwall mentioned 🎉🎉🎉

[@Mr.Monacle]

I'm taking one of the ideas you mentioned and am going to write a HP fanfic with it. Namely the one where it is a series of un universe biographies made to glorify this one dude and obfuscate the failings of the Status quo

[@Palidine4M0O]

Forgotten Realms is a giant fan fiction circle jerk project that ended up kickstarting what many enjoy as the greatest gaming system that has sprouted so many other worlds

[@trapcard8458]

Good luck on your exams

[@markbenand]

What really matters is that those that contribute to a fictional universe adhere to the essential spirit of the fictional universe. Even when Sherlock Holmes is put into a modern setting or even future setting (there was a 90's cartoon with this as a premise), no matter the changes in the details, the essentials should remain the same and you can tell whether or not it is Sherlock Holmes or just Sherlock Holmes in name only. There is this "something" that makes a fictional universe what it is and without this "something" it isn't that fictional universe. The 90's American Godzilla movie was not Godzilla. It was a monster movie where the city is attacked by a mutant t-rex. Shin Godzilla was spiritually the same as the 1950's Godzilla because the essentials were the same. Giant radioactive monster that represents the consequences of humankind's hubris and disregard for nature comes ashore to bitch-slap humanity. Humankind is all but helpless against this creature that is a god incarnate and only "wins" in a last ditch hail Mary with an experimental weapon that ultimately doesn't solve the problem.

[@snorpenbass4196]

Shin Godzilla was (in the movie) created by someone who was against polluting the world. The movie ends with the "heroes" talking about how fascism is A-OK. I think maybe that movie is the opposite of the original (but yes, the 1998 US one sucked). If you want something more like the 1953 one, ironically the 2014 American one works (it actually has more monster fights than most Godzilla movies, people just tend to forget all the annoying human characters in the old Toho stuff), but Minus One is even closer.

[@markbenand]

@@snorpenbass4196Like I said, those are the details. The essentials are the same: sky tall t-rex looking monster created by our hubris and abuse of nature comes ashore to bitch slap us, knock over skyscrapers, and light us on fire with nuclear breathe.

[@amanitamuscaria5863]

15:22 Yeah, but they'll keep releasing shit if I don't complain about it.

[@danielhuelsman76]

I hope you do well with your exams!

[@falazaria]

Rip the Beerenwein bottle

[@marocat4749]

Yay burger fast food, through still good food for fought. Oh does anyone remember that excentric influencer called burger who in harry potter soes videos that seem excentric but are made to make people think about if that harry potter really solved everything or if its propaganda, and is funny :P

[@DeathTempler]

Not sure what you're on about. Talos wrote Harry Potter, of course.

[@KirstAngel]

I am a trans man and still really love Harry Potter. I remember being a little (then) 8-10 year old girl with a really rough family situation who was also being abused while living in a cramped and cluttered space, and when something would go wrong or I would feel hopeless, I'd ask myself "Well, what would Harry Potter do?" and that would give me the strength to get through it. It was something that a child like me really needed. HP also got me into reading. I wasn't that interested in harder books, but after reading the first one, I distinctly remember thinking "If other books are like this, then I want to read them all" and that started my life-long love of reading. I don't engage with HP like I used to, and I don't wear any of the HP merch I have out (including and heartbreakingly, the ravenclaw scarf I knitted myself), but it's still something that I love deeply.

[@Desu-Desu-Chan-San]

I am happy you are not as... I do not even know the word to use here to describe it without sounding insulting. Soft? Fragile? Like, it is weird... Anyway, I am happy to see some others in the community not frothing at the mouth screaming phobe nonstop before breaking down into a sobbing mess because someone mentioned her name. I am on the other side of the transition, Mtf, and boy have I just had to step back from a few friend groups because some of them have gotten so bad that it is all they talk about and obsess over. So again, just wanted to give you props for being level headed ♥

[@KirstAngel]

@MooseChoker thanks lol. I think I just have the advantage of age and the maturity that comes with that. I've got real problems and a life to keep running so what a terf is saying across the ocean isn't something I think about much.

[@1e33n7]

I really don’t want to rock the boat by bringing this up, but I have it on good authority that Tommy Talerico was actually the first American to work on the Harry Potter series. So, 🤌🏻 checkmate atheiests 🤌🏻

[@voyagerrock1137]

You didn't say not to spam my relevant communities, so this obviously means i should!

[@Captain_Wet_Beard]

Personally I'm against all copyright, it only serves to protect the wealthy, and primarily large corporations, while stifling real artistic expression.

[@Alejojojo6]

It protects small creators as well from having their works taken by big corporations or other organizations they cannot fight with from stealing their art.... Its not just the wealthy that profit from it. It protected HP as a monopoly of JK Rowling when she wasnt rich or famous. Her books boomed but that was a side thing. It also makes sense that the creator of such a boom product that she worked with her time and hard sweat is the sole holder of the rights of it....

[@alric8940]

Your little bit about elder scrolls reminds me of a bit of head cannon I have about vampires Vampires should be of Hircene instead of Molag Bal because vampires are predators not machines of domination and sadism (though they can be very sadistic) when vampires try to take over land and dominate they die off because they kill off their source of food and power humanoid blood the only way they can live and exist independently is to exist in harmony with nature to a certain extent and learn to hunt but not overnight humanoids Hircene just makes more sense than Molag Bal also it would make him the coolest Daedra bar non because he would have both Werewolves and Vampires under his domain

[@kyleshurmur-dg3kq]

She invented the harry potter universe bruv so what hell u going on about

[@amadeusfuzz4320]

I’ve been saying this for years! Harry Potter belongs to the people who found community in it. I made so many friends irl and online. My ultimate Harry Potter dream growing up was an open world rpg and I got it. The story wasn’t great, but the combat was fun and modding is decent, so I created my own canon in a Harry Potter sandbox.

[@sethrhinehart621]

burger no just because you don't like an author doesn't mean your allowed to divorced them from their works. J.K Rowling is the owner of her creations personal beliefs be damned.

[@EasilyBoredGamer]

Yeah. He said as much in the first minute or two of the video

[@snorpenbass4196]

JK Rowling, while an awful person, is not a monkey with a typewriter (though technically an _ape_ with a typewriter). She's someone who took inspiration from a bunch of various sources and made something slightly simplified for mass consumption and then pretended she invented it all wholesale. Which... I mean, a monkey with a typewriter is adorable. Rowling isn't.

[@BinaryReader]

Why is she an awful person?

[@snorpenbass4196]

@@BinaryReader Why are you asking?

[@BinaryReader]

@@snorpenbass4196 You implied she was an awful person. That's quite a claim to make of someone. Do you know her? Did she do something to you personally?

[@biznestelch2941]

Pizza @@BinaryReader

[@henriboteule]

bro every single book ever written is the result of an author being inspired by other works

[@amanofnoreputation2164]

I'm not about to defend her, but I don't think Rowwling's stories could have reached so many people if her worldbuilding was really that bad (when she's being earnest.) Stuff like wizards having indoor plumbing even though Rowling says they're able to to just delete their shit with magic isn't an example of Rowling genuinely _trying_ to worldbuild and failing -- I think it's clear she's just being an asshole. There's something not only stupid about worldbuilding which is that bad, but spiteful. There's no way it's sincere. So all that sort of things aren't so much examples of Rowling's failure as a writer, but her failure as a person. And that's so much worse.

[@asturias0267]

Rowling does a pretty terrible job of world building when it comes to foreign cultures. The lore about the other magical schools around the world is pretty lazy, and she has a bad habit of doing a casual racism when writing foreign characters.

[@anilaisor]

wait there is a play?

[@bauz5565]

J.K. Rowling revealing herself to be a transphobe to me always gave the same energy as a badly written twist villain. To bad itˋs real

[@magnushmann]

I feel like most people who say this have no idea what she said that is supposedly "transphobic".

[@samsmoot1]

@@magnushmann I feel that you are very correct.

[@robertgronewold3326]

Mind you, transphobia is rife in the British Gen X community, so I don't know why people are surprised. She likely has a dozen friends who she has known for years with the same view on trans people, and they just keep bouncing the hate off each other, getting worse with age. Silent Generation were no better in the 80's when it game to gay people.

[@magnushmann]

@@robertgronewold3326 But can you tell me what it is she said that is "transphobic"? You might have a different idea of what anti-trans sentiment looks like than I, because none of what I have seen or been shown has convinced me of any such accusation being true yet. It's just kinda parroted in certain circles and taken for gospel. Ironic, considering the other part of your comment.

[@robertgronewold3326]

@@magnushmann Basically she has said things about biological female eraser and cross dressing sex offenders in women's restrooms. Thing is, I don't agree with her views, but people seem to be going extremely overboard with their hate against her. I think she's entitled to opinions I don't agree with, and nothing she's ever put in a book is transphobic.

[@rowanbowers5743]

Good luck on exams!

[@MDE_never_dies]

A quality analysis Reddit

[@brodieorr5393]

When you first came to my attention, it was one of the "men's issues" episode. i was a bit nervous at first, as those kinds of videos are usually thinly veiled Alt right propaganda, but i was VERY pleasantly surprised, and have grown to respect your opinion. It's really nice to hear leftists talk about those things that the right take advantage of, but also still shit on dumb terfs like Rowling We really need more Leftists talking about (i hate this phrase so much because its all patriarchy at the end of the day, but) men's rights because that seems to be the right's most successful recruitment tactic that most leftists online don't seem to have a counter to

[@test-subject_1342]

SPAM THEM EVERYONE SPAM THE LINK

[@szymonskalka3319]

Hogwarts = Order of Hermes

[@narutoxley]

I agree with you that one COULD headcannon something or COULD change the way the see the universe and omit or expand on stuff they either hate or like, but that's something reserved to the individual, and people might want to have some head cannon and use it to get inspired to create somethong new, but the mayority of people don't want to write something else, they want to enjoy the universe. And for that their needs to be a final say on how the universe works This is where authors come, i think you're undervalueing the practical benefit that it is the author's authority. A community needs an achor to the setting, someone with the final say for the phenomena that it's the colective's interpretation of the universe. This is normally the Author. People don't just want a good story and be done with it, they want to talk about it, discuss it and theorize about it. Find thematic interpretations and contrast them with other and partake in the exitement that its to come to a previously unknown conclusion thanks to discussion. But for that there needs to be consistency, one born out of respect to the author and greatfullness to their work. So people follow's the author's interpretation as the default one. Not only out of practical reasont the evade the universe becoming an chaotic mess of contradictions. But also a sentimental one bor out of respect to the Author's creativity and thankfullness to the experience they had. The trans community lost both of those emotional insentives and now reject her authority on cannon, but they and their supporters will be alone in that endevor. The reality is that Jk's Harry Potter is the default, and any other attempt to change it will just be a circle that will isolate itself out of the community at large, just because the mayority just either don't care for her transphobic comments or weight their love to the setting and books above her comments and actions. This is why is better to just separate the work from the author. Not in a literal sence, the work is born out of the author's interpretations of the world and it's stories, but from the rational conclusion that our emotional energy should not be spent in the frustration of the clashing feelings that are produce for loving something coming from someone who you hate. This discussion already happend with HP Lovecraft, and i think the answer is still the same. Separate the creation from the author. If you want examples of this phenomena, you could see some of the people's reactions to Beresker's author's death. Proclaiming that the manga ended then and there, coming up woth their own interpretation of this tragedy and how it fits in the manga's theme's. Or how a similar thing happend to Scott Cawthon, creator th the Five nights ant Freddy's, and instead of drging his work down with the judgment that was labeld at him, he desided to use it as a cathalist for his retirement to be with his sons and also save to integrity of the setting to those fans that would've being debastated by the controversy and not being able to enjoy a media they loved so much and have to leave it out of principle. That was a long comment... Love your content!

[@vitore.sanches7712]

Another great video!

[@British_Rogue]

Uh, yeah, she does.

[@rhiwright]

I think the fact she's openly said that she sees anyone buying into anything Harry Potter with time *or* money as supporting her views is significant. The fanbase can't actually distance themelves fully, no matter how much they wish they could. She does objectively and legally own Harry Potter. Also, there's nothing liberal about transphobia. Blair is a neoliberal (ands neoliberals are *not* liberals, they're on the right, not the left) who invited Thatcher to 10 Downing Street as his very first action as prime minister. He's a Tory play-acting at being something else.

[@Captain_Wet_Beard]

She's trolling the people who hate her, because she knows they care way too much about her opinions. Just ignore her, she's entirely irrelevant. Not everyone needs to like you or approve of your life choices or values, and you'll be much happier if you don't spend your emotional energy or time fixating on people who don't make you happy.

[@gaiagba]

Liberalism is not a left wing ideology. Silly americans

[@gaiagba]

@@Captain_Wet_Beard the one good advice in this comment section lol

[@gamervox1707]

I gonna say the movie where good, then I realize the hat thing with shorting people into house sound something a like to eugenics. I heard this idea from politically left news called The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder.

[@magnushmann]

I presume you are not familiar with common practice for British schools? Unless it's just the magic hat part itself you take issue with, and not the houses.

[@gamervox1707]

@@magnushmann It is not house thing that I had a problem with. It was the hat and the shorting using the hat.

[@magnushmann]

@@gamervox1707 You phrased it like it was the sorting into houses you had an issue with as well, and I don't even know how it can remind you of eugenics exactly; they're already born after all.

[@gamervox1707]

@@magnushmann It is like calculating the head size like in eugenic to pick who goes into what house. now you will not unsee it. I was trying to be abstract for a reason.

[@magnushmann]

@@gamervox1707 Hmm, I see. Curious.

[@thishandleistacken]

One of the best examples of a successful branching off of fiction beyond the creator is Undertale. I could not care less if you think its cringe its incredible to me none the less. Super Eye Patch Wolf's video What The Internet Did To Undertale can give you a look at just how far the AUs (alternate realities) of Undertale go.

[@mahtimonni97]

I've given this alot of thought. I like H. P. Lovecraft's writing, despite the man being a neurotic racist. But I have real difficulty separating Rowling from the art in the same way. I've come to the conclusion that death of the author applies to Lovecraft more, because the guy has literally been dead for almost 90 years. He *isn't* on twitter posting dogwhistles. Rowling is actively using her status as a popular author to do real societal harm. I have friends whose lives are made more unsafe by her. This is why I just can't enjoy HP books anymore. There aren't decades of time buffer between an author's bad opinions and the present day. I will not judge people for liking HP books. I won't even judge someone for the crime of simply playing Hogwarts Legacy. Good for them, if they can separate a living artist from the art. I just can't do the same. Also, I do agree that the Lovecraft mythos really took off after better authors ran with it and built upon it. Eldritch Horror, by fantasy flight games is my favorite board game. And one of my favorite musical albums is an adaptation of The King In Yellow, viewed through the lens of modern day conspiracism.

[@betenoireindustries]

i need to know what album this is 🤔

[@mahtimonni97]

@@betenoireindustries "The king in yellow" by Ah Pook the destroyer. It's pretty fun! Has a song that samples Alex Jones way more than is necessary.

[@betenoireindustries]

@@mahtimonni97 many thanks!

[@trickshaw]

Sorry, my dude, I have to disagree with nearly every point made in this video. Best wishes on your collegiate journey though!

[@ukyoize]

Imagine liking things lmao

[@TheGrinningViking]

Jake Rawling, in the tradition of Southern evangelical preachers that get caught with rent boys while preaching bigitry, is ultimately self hating.

[@Captain_Wet_Beard]

Based wrong pronouns enjoyer

[@gaiagba]

​@@Captain_Wet_Beard i legitmatly cant tell if this post is pro or anti trans😅

[@lazarack4859]

I do believe art is representative of the artist, but that does not mean that cruel people cannot make great art. Also, art is up to interpretation, enjoyment of that art does not make you cruel, nor does it force you to agree with it's author.

[@hufthoch4812]

I personally found that the best way to seperat the artist from the Art for me, is not to give them money. I want to watch the Harry Potter Movies? Ask a friend who has the blue ray. Want to play the game? Buy it second hand.

[@raipe125]

lindo cabello

[@Archone666]

As much as I love most of your videos, and even much of what you're saying about fanfiction and canon, I have to strenuously disagree regarding Rawlings herself. In fact, this video encapsulates the entire problem. People are demonizing her as an evil, monstrous, hateful transphobic nazi... and then you ask them what she actually said that's so hateful, and the answer is either "you KNOW what she said, and you're a horrible person for even asking," or it's a litany of things she hasn't actually said. Rawlings is in fact a domestic abuse survivor with a particular set of beliefs, who repeatedly made it clear she didn't HATE anyone, she just disagreed with what she was being told to believe. She then began to dig her heels in, in response to the wave of negativity and nastiness hurled at her (including rape and death threats). I disagree with her on the vast majority of what she says on the subject of transgenderism, but I do understand WHY she feels the way she does. And demonizing someone, attacking them, and expressing an open desire to see harm inflicted upon them, is a TERRIBLE way to persuade them - or anyone who doesn't already agree with you - that they're wrong and you're correct about a subject. Here's a link that lists all the stuff she ACTUALLY said, as well as other people's reactions to them. She's wrong about most of it, but she's not being hateful. She's just mistaken, and has been given less than zero reason to change her mind: www.glamour.com/story/a-complete-breakdown-of-the-jk-rowling-transgender-comments-controversy

[@lakkakka]

In all honesty, nothing is yours if you can't keep others from taking it. Sure you might claim ownership. But owenership isn't real. It doesn't exist. It isn't concrete. It only exists between your ears. But if we're free to claim things. I'mma claim everything as mine.

[@nobobonobo]

Trans isn't real

[@Bluesonofman]

The Original Creator should always get the final say. JK saw what happened to Stat Wars when Lucas sold it to the Rat, and will not let that happen to Harry Potter. Any intelligent creator will never make the same mistake Lucas made. I hope Disney ends up in the dustbin of history and Lucas is able to get Star Wars back for pennies.

[@Seetor]

The problem isn't that George lost control of it, it's that any one person/conglomerate does. Who owns King Arthur? Who owns the Odyssey? Who owns any of the great timeless stories? We do. All of us. Anyone can make a King Arthur movie, a King Arthur video game, a King Arthur play. Anyone can re-imagine the journeys of Odysseus. And together humanity can pick and choose between iterations, what we like and dislike. Is Morgan le Fay Arthur's sister? She wasn't originally. But through trial and error we figured it'd be a more potent story if she was. And so it became canon that she is. Where would Star Wars be if nobody was in charge of who is allowed to make it?

[@Bluesonofman]

@@Seetor Timeless Stories are Timeless because they have a consistent narrative and it's people like you who destroy them.

[@asturias0267]

You should watch Jessie Gender's new-ish video essay on Star Wars. It's really interesting and goes into both the creative and business history of the franchise and George Lucas.

[@Bluesonofman]

@@asturias0267 Does it incorporate Disney’s fanfic? If so than nah. There are only 7 Canon movies and one Canon Show. 1, 2 , The Clone Wars Movie, The Clone Wars show, 3, 4, 5, and 6.

[@Captain_Wet_Beard]

Copyright only further enriches large corporations, while chilling artistic expression. The concept was a bad idea, and we should abolish it to return to the golden age of collaborative story telling.

[@nicklockk]

Why do you say homage like that? Has someone told you that's the secret correct way of saying it? You fell for a meme.

[@Seetor]

He sometimes decides words sound better in certain incorrect ways and runs with it. Drivers me insane

[@bognome5374]

french pronunciation

[@nicklockk]

O'match

[@wabbajack2]

Burger is German. Diel mit it.

[@nicklockk]

@@wabbajack2 What does that have to do with it

[@yakurbe7039]

Copyright should last no more than 5 years. Change My Mind.

[@dahuterschuter]

JK is based honestly.

[@masscreationbroadcasts]

So this is now officially the "just helping the Left with shallow criticisms" channel, or... We've got something else coming too? P.S. It's so funny to hear someone criticise Blair from the Left, when the criticism I usually hear for him is how he massively undermined the Right. P.S.S. The last third brings good points. 23:48 Neuralink is the first step in the plot to execute Order 66. 24:27 You talked backwards by reversing the audio instead of speaking backwards. Very cowardly.

[@Seetor]

You're seriously telling me you've never heard Blair criticised from the left

[@masscreationbroadcasts]

@@Seetor They're the same as Thatcher criticisms, and those are much more common, but he was definitely a crypto-Leftist, so criticizing him from the Left rings hollow.

[@Seetor]

@@masscreationbroadcasts ...have you read a book?

[@masscreationbroadcasts]

@@Seetor a book? Like, any book? Hundreds, but why does that matter?

[@snorpenbass4196]

@@masscreationbroadcasts Just because you read Atlas Shrugged a hundred times that doesn't count as a hundred books.

[@iamwrong2239]

What has JK said that was transphobic? To me if you have a problem with her political view points, well find a way to not support her. What you point out about copyright is correct. It's only used to keep a hold of an IP so they can milk it, though comparing it to landlords is strange. Landlords, in theory, do a lot of work. But that depends on who is your landlord. Overall I like the approach Razorfist had when he made the video on how to support Battletech and not the company. Overall, if they copyright system was fixed, we could have different interpretations of our favourite franchises. Or crappy horror movies and remember, always gatekeep

[@marocat4749]

Yiou mean aside her dnot only defending but hanging out with Trans Exclusive Radical Feminists. And saying transpeople arent real and a dangerous cult that, "fill in a lot sudoscience and conspiracy theories"

[@Seetor]

"overall I like the razorfist approach" oh boy

[@iamwrong2239]

@@Seetor On his video on how to support the community of battletech. Not the company. Doesn't mean I agree with everything he says

[@moisesmaciel5123]

Of course they will say that. Since she is against a current agenda, she cannot be considered the owner of Harry Potter. But if any author supports these agendas, their work will be considered theirs, even if some conservative says otherwise

[@chickenelafsworld7105]

I don’t know if you actually watched the video, but it isn’t really about how because she’s a transphobe she doesn’t own it? He actively talks about how it would be bad to try to, for example, republish her work under a different name to separate it from her. While her harmful views are the jumping off point, since he knows most of his audience doesn’t like JKR and struggles to engage with her work, the overall video is about the moral and philosophical arguments for her not really owning the universe. It’s a video about canon and fanfiction more than how much she owns it. And he applies it impartially, to the point of applying it to his own world and writing and to properties he likes like the World of Darkness. You can like JKR or even agree with her transphobic views without disagreeing with the take in this video.

[@snorpenbass4196]

@@chickenelafsworld7105 I'm willing to bet every single one complaining about this video in the comments is totally on board with Rowling's "politics". Which tells me all I need to know about them as human beings.

[@chickenelafsworld7105]

@@snorpenbass4196 oh yeah, I agree. But it’s one thing to be a transphobe, I’m usually not gonna call that out in a somewhat unrelated comment because that’s more spoons than I have, and in my experience it isn’t particularly good at changing minds. It’s another thing for someone be so dogmatic about those views that they miss the entire other point of the video and get upset about it. Misrepresenting the point for your political message is incredibly annoying to me, so I figured I’d call it out once to get it out of my system then get out of the comment section before I inevitably found more.

[@mrmackie-qp6lr]

I really like your work on World of Darkness I do but your own personal beliefs I find quite disgusting I didn't realize you were still in school I at least hope for your sake you didn't do something like go to school for writing to become a writer does to be honest burning your money would be faster

[@Desu-Desu-Chan-San]

Yeah, the sec I heard "university" I knew something dumb was about to be parroted lol

[@wabbajack2]

Learn to use punctuation, please.

[@theposhbarbarian6472]

Why though? Just because he’s gone *back* to uni to study something does not make people idiots?

[@Desu-Desu-Chan-San]

@@theposhbarbarian6472 Studying things is fine, there is nothing wrong with learning. The problems with universities in general is students go to them and become activists instead of students. Normal small town girl goes off to college, 2 years later she has a shaved head and is screaming fascist, nazi, phobe this and phobe that... So on and so forth. It is not a 100% thing, for sure... But having the "I am back at uni and wizard book lady bad" just causes a instant groan and eyeroll after the past 10 years of things getting more and more unhinged.

[@mrmackie-qp6lr]

@@Desu-Desu-Chan-San thank you college these days really has become a brainwashing machine for the elites there are a few that come out of it with out being turned into some version of this

[@evan12697]

this is a joke right lmao "akschually nobody has any say over things they create if you disagree with them so basically harry potter is going to bring guns to school now" like wtf

[@Desu-Desu-Chan-San]

Oh boy...

[@Vermillionsophie]

Im trans i refuse to read the books but i enjoy the movies and game because a lot if great people worked on them so i dont think its fair to hate on those as much plus i can just watch them for free 🫢