Aldi have lots of Harry Potter special buys this week
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I hope one day soon Twitter will go the way of MySpace and stop being used by people, the pathetic triggered crowd would suddenly sound a lot quieter. Harry Potter does not require a trigger warning FFS
Twitter is irrelevant, it's mostly used by people looking at cute animal pics. Comments are made by a tiny, yet vocal, number of people. In SM I think of Twitter being at one end of the politics scale and the DM comments section at the other. 99% of people are in-between.
If you asked the average person 'why is J K Rowling cancelled?' those that know what the phrase means would mostly say 'she isn't'. A few would reply that 'people on Twitter don't like her'.
JK goes from strength to strength - Harry Potter World in the Universal Parks is just massive and so popular, as are all the books and films still. Its all about book sales and those continue to rise.......yet another fact that can't be denied.
I disagree. Twitter is not irrelevant at all, although it should be. It actively shapes media, law and politics in a way Facebook doesn’t, and never has.
Perhaps I should say 'irrelevant to me, my friends, family and co-workers'.
Genuinely curious - can you please give me examples of how Twitter has shaped media, law and politics?
The films are on itv2 at the moment. I’d forgotten what terrible actors the main 3 are.
Media - Broadsheets, television programmes, magazines etc have ran entire pieces, debates and interviews on the fact that JK Rowling IS transphobic. Not questioning but stating that she simply is. Because people on Twitter said so. The BBC has been hit by (I think I read) 14,000 complaints because people on Twitter have been saying it’s a transphobic institution. This is not the work of Facebook, Insta, or Tik Tok or anything else. It’s Twitter. These are only two examples, not even getting into “Twitter storms” and cancellations
Law/Politics (they go together) - Donald Trump’s Twitter account is widely and notably credited for starting the riots in America. Laws are amended and shaped by “public opinion”, such as changes to Self-ID, as one example. Politicians aren’t looking to Facebook. They’re not looking to Instagram. They’re looking to Twitter. The majority of policitians in this country has a Twitter account. I bet half, or even a quarter, has any other (public) socials. They use Twitter to poll, and to engage, with “the public”, whilst forgetting it’s a completely anonymous platform, where users may not even be from their country. (I can’t remember if it was this thread or a different one about the person asking if they actually had to read the BBC article before submitting a complaint about it). I also think that’s why a “record” number of complaints were made against Ashley Banjo and Diversity BLM performance, I doubt half of the people were even from the UK. And yes, people from elsewhere other than the UK can be offended by something they’ve seen on the global internet, but Ofcom, in my opinion, should NOT be taking global complaints about British television.
It’s tribalistic in the way other social media giants aren’t. Maybe it’s the limited characters, I don’t know, but it’s influence is unparalleled.
Thanks for taking the trouble to respond.
I take you point, although I do think that Twitter is just one of multiple platforms/sources used.
If I remember rightly Twitter predicted a Hilary Clinton win and the UK to stay in Europe.
I still maintain that JK being cancelled on Twitter means nothing to the vast majority of people in the World, or the 100's if not 1000's of firms that endorse Harry Potter in some way. The Hallowean 20 years of Harry Potter screening at our local cinema sold out within minutes.
Oh, absolutely I agree with you on that. I think the media, and politicians, quite forget that it is a very, very small amount of the general populace that actually has a Twitter account or even visits the website. Which is probably why most people have no clue about the JKR thing.
And re: your second paragraph, I think that also ties in to what I said about how much influence it has (or thinks it has). The outrage, disbelief and shock that those events weren’t the landslide that were predicted (on Twitter) were a sight to behold.
Plus a landslide Jeremy Corbyn win, you'd think people would wake up to how irrelevant twitter actually is in the real world where people stil communicate face to face.
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I think Twitter is extremely powerful. The fact they deplatformed the President of the USA is a sinister thing no matter what people think of Trump. I agree its largely an echo chamber but what makes social media insidious is that MSM looks for it to inform their editorials even if its under a cover of moral indignation so the virtual cancelling of JKR for example became a thing. It has normalised the use of pronouns. Tiktok is full of young non binaries and trans. If it wasn't powerful in setting the agenda it wouldn't exist
It banns women for saying trans women are men while allowing rape threats against women. I'm scared of it
It banns women for saying trans women are men while allowing rape threats against women. I'm scared of it
I just immediately think sexual deviant when they have an anime profile pictureThe tendency towards anime profile pics is very telling, isn’t it? An unequivocal acknowledgement that the image of themselves they hold in their head bears no relation to reality.
It’s almost as if identifying as a coquettish, doe-eyed teen princess when you’re 6’, middle-aged, and have XY chromosomes is something that can only be conveyed via a cartoon caricature.
Repent! Repent!
Accusations of heresy should not be cloaked by pretence of legitimate complaint.
Quoting myself but read the bolded and then the link. An organised effort through Twitter.
I had my twitter account locked for saying Rachel Levine is male. The platform prides themselves on fact checking but saying trans women are male is considered hateful conduct. It’s an absolute farce.
@HockyRorror, check this out. Absolutely pisses me off. I used to like his channel but I’ve gone right off. Makes me sick when men speak for JKR, wagging their finger at us for not being nice enough to pornsick males.
@HockyRorror, check this out. Absolutely pisses me off. I used to like his channel but I’ve gone right off. Makes me sick when men speak for JKR, wagging their finger at us for not being nice enough to pornsick males.
I used to watch him too (mostly years ago) but he makes me wanna puke recently, such a smug woke hipster.
I have no idea who that is, but he is delusional if he is not only speaking on behalf ofJKR but a cartoon character that isn’t even a real person wtf!?
who is he?
A studytuber turned booktuber.
Lol! In that particular video, he was rating the books that Lisa Simpson read throughout the series, which included Harry Potter so of course he had to do his performative allyship bit.
Jack Edwards - study tuber who seems to have made a career out of not getting into Oxford yet reapplying every year.
He is what I mean when I talk about "luxury beliefs". He will never be in a position where this will affect him. He'll never be a poor, abused, disenfranchised, illiterate woman seeking refuge from male violence, or missing a screening because 'cervix haver' is confusing, or being incarcerated with male-bodied rapists; he will never be disadvantaged in the workplace due to female biology; he will never suffer from this ideology. His glib bleatings make me feel physically sick. Of course 'transwomen are women' when they're no threat to you. Of course 'transmen are men' when you can't be bothered to examine and dismantle the structures that make young women want to remove their breasts and call themselves "he/him".
Gobshite.
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