honestly I think I lost a lot of faith in humanity when hogwarts legacy happened. thousands of people heard "jkr is transphobic" and didn't think that was enough reason to not buy a mediocre videogame and it became a runaway success. it was such a basic show of decency and it was too much. return the shopping cart ass dilemma. I'm a misanthrope now
That was really disturbing, and also extremely confusing to me. I genuinly started to question if many people just don't know anything about the world and the context in which the media they consume is made.
"Rowlings transphobia is extremely well known" I always thought, because HOW THE FUCK COULD YOU MISS IT?? And yet I have met multiple people that mentioned playing the game. And they didn't even admit to transphobia, or tried to vaguely gesture towards some misunderstood death of the author concept, or defended JKR, they just mentioned the game like it was the most normal thing to do.
the amount of people who also KNEW explicity that jkr is a transphobe and chose to just, like, not care, and play that game anyway, is astounding. i lost friends i thought were good friends because they were chill just ignoring her blatant transphobia, and i couldnt be around them anymore
