Because death of the author is pretty irrelevant when said author Still takes in millions from said franchise. But that said I've held this view of her writing long before she revealed herself to publicly be trash
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Replying to @mxanthropology @LsTowT and
Notch no longer gets money from minecraft. These are very different situations
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Replying to @mxanthropology @arthur_affect and
Not really. I've already bought the game- therefore even if he were the current owner, he would never get more of my money. I could still enjoy the books. I don't, bc they're tainted for me now but I don't down on continuing fans.
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Replying to @LsTowT @mxanthropology and
It's less about your personal spending decisions - most of us have already bought the books and have no reason to rebuy them - and more that if you participate in a public fan community you build hype for the books and encourage other people to buy them
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Replying to @arthur_affect @LsTowT and
Like we really don't discuss this enough "Fandom" is a free volunteer PR and marketing department for the original creator Authors "tolerate" fanworks because they generate revenue for them, because it's good business - it's better advertising than money could buy
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Replying to @arthur_affect @LsTowT and
Online fandom, in particular, is OBVIOUSLY why Harry Potter got so goddamn big Not that HP is somehow objectively leaps and bounds better than every other popular children's book series in history It's the one that was popular when the Internet started getting big
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Replying to @arthur_affect @LsTowT and
It's why the "long tail" of Potter fandom interest was so ridiculously long It's a powerful way to lock in people's interest in a property and keep them from being pulled away to other things - when you're literally part of a community with relationships built on it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @LsTowT and
This is straight up why the long delay before Book 5 only built hype for it rather than quelling it, why that book smashed sales records - people spending all that time beforehand obsessing over it and writing their own versions of it and arguing over what was gonna happen
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Replying to @arthur_affect @LsTowT and
None of this is new, of course Fans acted like this about Star Wars, Star Trek, Dune, Lord of the Rings, Sherlock Holmes But the Internet really did lock a whole generation of nerdy teenagers in, like if you didn't read Harry Potter you had nothing to talk to people about
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Replying to @arthur_affect @LsTowT and
There was a long time when "fanfic" was almost synonymous with "Harry Potter fanfic" Like if this was the kind of thing you were into you had to convince yourself to like Harry Potter to participate
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So sure the people who made a living doing Harry Potter fan films and "wizard rock" albums and reaction videos and shit can be said to have "piggybacked on JKR's success" But she also REALLY CLEARLY piggybacked on them Her empire was built on volunteer labor from fans
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