Why did it fail to be popular with anyone beyond millennials?
>>218988892Kids don't read now that they have 24/7 dopamine pumps.
england's cultural image went down the shitter since then
Too much witchcraft
>>218988892>beyond millennialswho cares about other generations. They are all subhumans
Last generation that read books?
>>218988892Because the books and movies were only coming out during the time millennials were growing up? Not exactly a mystery.
>>218989156My sister's kids are gen alpha and they read but she also homeschools them so they are already outliers.
>>218988892Blatantly untrue. It's still an incredibly popular IP with today's youth.
>>218988892genx hates it too. It's woman world building
What most potter trannies won't tell you is that it wasn't even massively popular until the first movie
>>218988892I've met quite a few baby boomers who like Harry Potter, although they're always women
>>218990476They won't tell you that because it's blatantly false. The book releases were a huge event.
>>218994993You had to be there.
>>218990476It was the best selling novel in the world even before the first movie you retard. Millions of copies had been sold in the US alone by 2000.
>>218995069When was the last time a book release was like this?
>>218988892jk rowling ruined her own reputation. call me a tranny if you'd like, but that's what it is. zoomers have trooned out.
>>218995069Take me back brosNot just to the book releasesTo everything
>>218988892I'm an early Gen X who never read the books. My friend tells me I have to see the movies. I watched the first 3 and it was the same movie 3 times. Same bad guy, same fucking broom game. They suck.
>>218988892Too much reading.
>>218995069I remember buying Half-Blood Prince at a midnight release and I read the entire book in 2 days, sleeping around 6 hours total and only leaving the book to eat, piss and shit
Thanks to the internet boomer zog propaganda doesn't work on the newer generations. Thanks to "butterfly" keeping millennial plebs out of /lit/ they never got to ruin polls and lists.
I watched this gay Harry Potter tournament of champions quiz competition on HBO max and some faggot boomer 3 days from death won the whole thing. Every other contestant was a variant of quirk chungus millennial or older zoomer. As if the geriatric boomer was still hungry to claim one more thing, not content with his pile of hoarded treasures, not content to let the millennials have their one piece of slop.
>>218988892Had to have been there I guess
>>218997556I miss the dopamine production of youth making me desperate to imbibe things so deeply
>>218997556A memory to be proud of in these times
>>218995213probably twilight. Has there been a song of fire and ice release since twilight?
>>218993014>Not quite. Not quite. The Ope-ster doesn't mind the Harry Potter. The Harry Potter is ok, right? Yes I know, obviously it's kid shit. I got that. So all you fuckin' morons on instant feedback saying "THAT'S FOR CHILDREN," yes I understand that, ok? And trust me, I'm not whackin' my bag waiting for the next book. But me and Lindsey flew to Philly and I decided to check out the Harry Potter, and holy shit was it good. I dunno. Ant? Am I crazy for liking the Harry Potter?
>>218988892Millennial here, it bored me
Born in the late 80’s here. I couldn’t give two nigger shits about Harry Potter. I’ve only seen half of the first one and that was it. I have zero interest in it. It’s gay as fuck.
>>218988892Tbh I have to disagree, especially as an older zoomer, although the series was heavily targeted towards the millennials, I knew a shit ton of people growing up who were really into the franchise. Went to a few harry potter themed birthday parties my classmates had aswell lol
>>218995164It was such a massive bestseller it made the New York Times create the children's lit best seller list. If they hadn't done that, Harry Potter would constantly dominate the charts
>>218988892Due to the books which were for the children of the era which were millenials. Gen X were too old and would simply be the parents of millennials, zoomers were too young. It really was a niche area for people the books with aimed at. I am Gen X and have never seen any of the movies and of course read the books.
>>219002857I haven't heard them talk potter in a while but I could easily believe that is a word for word quote
>>218994993>>218995164Movie producer David Heyman's assistant happened upon the book and loved it and talked Heyman into buying the rights to it, this all they way back in late 97 when the book was barely months old and was on it's way to sell a grand sum of... 500 copies.Go read about this series now that """"Rowling"""" doesn't have a pr team of leftists and trannies running around pushing the fake marketing story about her "rags to riches"
You had to be there'.It's a past fad. Like people wondering why don't zoomers care about boomer movies.>>218989323Bingo. It's a childrens book/movie series.The reboot is just another cash grab.>The books are always writtenJK is going to make bank if they don't screw up the series. It'll catch the millennials back and alpha if they do it right.
>>218997895they took the most disabled person they could find and let her carry the fucking olympic flame, why?
>>218988892Because millennials were the target audience when it came out? Duh?
>>218988892I'm on the older end of gen z and it was popular when I was a kid. I read all of them and so did most of the girls at school. >>218989323Don't forget the forgotten beasts series and also the video game>>218990476I distinctly remember seeing a news report on one of the book releases that even had people cosplaying and waiting in line in some Asian country. The franchise was and is huge.
>>218989347Your sister sounds based. Hopefully she also makes sure they don't use smartphones and tablets until they are much older.
>>218988892It tied in with books, as many of those came first and pretty much every kid had at least read the first two. A lot of schools would even have Harry Potter on their reading list and public libraries would do live readings for really little kids.I'm not even sure if that kind of thing still exists anymore desu but it was a comfy time.
>>219004703are you a shill or a cocksucker?
>>219004895I'm a man. But I agree that HP leans towards women. It did when I was in school too.
>>219004703>also the video gameTrue, everyone of all ages wanted Hogwarts Legacy. A zoomie girl I dated for a bit was really into Harry Potter and Hogwarts Legacy.
>>219004928It leans towards little girls and HUGE unsexed girls.
>>218988892my boomer dad asks everyone sweeping the floor with a broom if thats a nimbus 2000
>>219005023I don't know, I think it's a pretty typical YA fantasy. If it leans towards girls it's probably because girls read more than boys and women more than men. There's nothing about the novels that makes compositionally feminine.
>>219005180I agree that it's the same caliber of mindless smut that women call reading these days in an attempt to feel like intellectuals.
>>218988892It doesn't have enough literary value to be part of a classroom curriculum and in their free time kids would probably rather read the sharty than books.
>>218988892It's a book and millennials are the last generation to read. JK also became known as the arch transphobe despite being hyper woke in all other aspects, and since gen Z is the most gay, brown, transexual generation in recorded human history that's a nonstarter obviously.
>>219005248I don't think men are much better. At least the smut-reading women occasionally venture into Jane Austen or the Brontes.
>>219005180Women and failed men(a lot of you) appreciate Harry Potter for two distinct reasons:1. Its aesthetics are reminiscent of peak white culture (therefore peak world culture), in that it is a boarding school setting therefore the kids must either have wealthy parents, or, in this case, some unique disposition (magical abilities) which sets them apart from "le other [girls / proles / muggles). The setting itself is absolutely peak white culture, in a cold rural setting within an ancient castle, whose professor speak in RP accents etc. Consider that both Emma Watson and (((Daniel Radcliffe))) were both privately educated at similar IRL schools, and therefore fit their respective roles perfectly (with state-schooled Rupert fitting his role as the Oliver-esque poorfag). It's life on easymode essentially, with no worries about money throughout ones childhood or adolescent, and a guaranteed job at the end. Balls, gowns, ancient portraits, all make for the upper class environment girls love because it affords them a sense of superiority and distinction from their peers (plus a choice of equally upper class guys).2. The fighting in Harry Potter is not done by hands or traditional weaponry, something very unique in fiction. Even Star Wars has lightsabers and laser guns, both advanced versions of swords and rifles (masculine). Instead Hermione can use her nerdiness to battle her enemies (using her academic knowledge and bookishness) and even if she is forced into combat, it isn't as if she has to adopt the nu-feminist idea that "gurls are just as strong as boys hehe!" as seen in many modern movies where some "badass" dyke karate kills ten guys twice her size. Instead she can muster all her repressed energy (which is abundant in nerdy girls) and use it to create a force which shoots from her wand (which satisfies her penis envy) to overwhelm the inner force of her enemiesIt's the ideal low IQ female-friendly story. Rowling is nothing more than a bargain bin Le Guin
>>219005297>Jane Austen or the Brontes>this is used as a defense of women's proclivity to only read if it makes their ginny tingle leading to works of any literary meritPublic schooling was almost as big of a mistake as women's suffrage.
Harry Potter is targeted at women. Women don’t like old things. Harry Potter is old now. Women who didn’t grow up with it don’t care about it.
>>219005371It's more so used as a counterpoint to the notion that women read only smut.Women also read Jane Austen and the Brontes which is why Netflix did an adaptation of Persuasion a few years ago and it's why we have Wuthering Heights being released now.
>>219005349Your points don't say much about why specifically women and failed men appreciate HP. Everyone appreciates peak white culture so it's pointless to mention. As for your second point, there are other series beloved by women which include hand to hand combat.
>>219005488this isn't even baityou threw in the entire vagina braid
>>219004895kek you were rightits a hole
>>219005623I'm not baiting. I think women are unfairly attacked when they read much more than men. In fact, as a whole, women have done a better job at fostering traditional Western culture. Not only do they read more but they're also interested in things like ballet, opera, and plays. The last two plays I've been to had women playing the roles of men because there simply weren't enough actors available. There's some data that suggests women learn second languages more often and more efficiently than men and most of those women will be learning French or another European language. The humanities are predominantly female. Women seem to go to art galleries more. Etc, etc.
>>219005947While I agree with keeping things like ballet and opera alive, the books women read are often utter shit. It's always those $5 romance novels or Harry Potter, never anything interesting. I fear anytime I tell a woman that I read and when it comes to saying what she reads, it is always Harry Potter or some tacky romance series.
>>219005976You only agree with the opera and ballet because you haven't been to one in the last decade and seen the niggerfied DEI drag shows that they have become. It's just Broadway but the audience is wearing slightly nicer outfits.
>>219006033My country doesn't have really have black people, so we don't have that issue. Lots of Asians though.
>>219006070No real countries had muslims until 20 years ago, and yet here we are.Complacency is death.
>>219005976Often yes, but not always. And I think you'll find a good few classic novels mixed in with their selection. Especially compared to men who outrightly turn their noses up at the idea of reading a book written by a woman or even from a woman's perspective.
>>219005606Anon was just hitting his marks.
>>218990476You werent even born at that time, nigger
>>218995069>>218997556will there ever be excitement for a book launch like this again other than for some booktok trash
>>219002976You bore me
>>219006232I fucking wish, I've yet to meet a woman that doesn't just read those two things. I'd probably straight up propose to a woman that actually reads something beyond that, even if it was just some entry level classics like Faulkner.
>>218988892Gen Z never really got into books. Maybe Diary of a Wimpy Kid?Gen Alpha actually can't read.
>>219007706Zoomer girls at the very least read Harry Potter, but it seems like they didn't discover it until their early 20s, which is a strange point to discover it. I can pretty easily believe Gen Z never read though, they are absolutely fucked.
>>219007706Been seeing that in our (university) students over the last 5 years already. These are 18-22yo’s equipped with 3rd grade literacy. Good thing the entire US economy has been leveraged into pushing ai as the replacement for all the intellectual labor of the country, freeing Gen Z/A up to nail shingles on roofs and shovel shit on farms for minimum wage.lol so glad i didnt have kids in this fucking shithole country
quite frankly the satanic panic parents were 100% validated
>>218995069zoomers can't get it, I mean there's no way they can even read a page of text?I'm remember reading that book in one day without stopping, and I'm sure I wasn't the only one
>>218997556I hate phones and the internet so fucking much. Zoomers will never know what it means to live a life through a book. Fuck Peter Thiel.
>>219004099Rowling is a lifetime actor and the whole HP series is a Tavistock culture creation similar to the Beatles to allow Britain some cultural relativism. The books have simply too much hidden occult and esoteric references for a whimsy single mum to have understanding of. The level of marketing the books received is above and beyond anything before or since, indicating it was some form of glow op from the beginning.
>>218997556>HEY!!! SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE!!!!>...NOOOOO YOU BITCH
>>219006876Not even booktok slop gets stuff like that
millennials stayed obsessed with it into their adulthood, which later generations saw as embarrassing
>>219012316meanwhile Gen Xers and Star Wars...
>>219013802based retard
>>219011085The Internet allowed me to read Festhly Hallows before it came out. Anyone else remember the based lad who photographed every page of the book and posted it online?
>>219013833Zoomers will continue to love whatever garbage they like now until adulthood, and it will be things that are 100 times gayer than Harry Potter. Millennials are not unique in this regard, retard.
