For what it’s worth, I think that you are both right here.
I think there are large portions of fandoms – especially for something as Basic as HP – that simply don’t engage with facts about hatemongering by an author or creator and don’t try to learn more. Or other things like that which should fundamentally alter the way they think about the property in question.
Sometimes it’s a fig leaf for underlying anti trans hate, but not for many/most such people, not in my estimation. And to Tamsin’s point, it is CRITICAL that we alter the discourse so that nobody can claim ignorance here.
That’s what puzzles me. This thread, and following a couple of links directly from it, is the only online activity I know of(my last contact with the books was well over a decade ago at this point, and via a gift, so probably no Amazon connection; and I’ve not had cause for any steam/GoG browsing in some time; so there’s no cart or store page dwell time they are trying to reunight me with). The youtube channels in question haven’t mentioned it or played it(with the exception of the one that specifically said they wouldn’t be touching it, it’s just out of scope for the others); so I’m really at a loss for why I’m of interest.
My current best guess is that MATN plays a lot of Fallout, and is currently doing Oblivion, which is also an RPG. That’s distinctly weak; but seems incrementally stronger than a connection to Cities: Skylines, Timberborn, Crusader Kings, Rimworld; or a bunch of hardware-related stuff.
Behavioural advertising bingo: really it’s just as simple as “games”. And that’s the big ad spend game now. Most ads you get served are completely uninteresting and things you would never buy or look for.
i turned off targeted ads, which ironically means that i get to see exactly the kind of ads i don’t want to see. Stuff like pro-Trump ads, this recent HP game, ads for scammy sexual themed phone app/games, etc. And i can’t do much about it unless i want to turn the targeted ads back on
Thankfully while i’m on my computer i don’t see ads, but when i’m on the go and on my phone i have to put up with said ads
One can have a similar experience by opening YouTube while signed out, in a private browser. The recommended videos are a pure horror show of mainstream schlock, click bait, and scams. It’s a very ugly view of the world.
