Link to post: https://www.reddit.com/r/HarryPotteronHBO/comments/1s5exuz/anyone_else_feeling_a_kind_of_intense_sadness_in/
Pictured: Millennials talking about the silly wizard power fantasy like it’s Shakespeare. Harry Potter truly is to Generation Y as Star Wars was to Generation X. It reminds them of a “better time” when they could remain ignorant of all the horrible things happening in the world (paid for by their tax money).
28 is Gen Z, hate to break it to you, generational warfare is stupid
Also, JK being shitty and my personal dislike of Harry Potter aside, I dunno, there’s something depressing about pathologizing people for enjoying whimsy. Like, the grown ass man who likes playing with trains has always been a thing. It’s normal and human. My old ass mother likes Minions, my dad builds model cars from his childhood. That doesn’t mean they don’t enjoy mature things either or that there is something wrong with them. That’s not even getting into neurodivergent special interests and the judgement those people receive over maybe having a hyperfixation that’s considered out of their age range
I dunno, there’s something scummy and judgemental about it. If I were to play that game, I could just as easily say it reminds me of the immaturity of teenagers shitting on each other for still liking ‘kids stuff’ because they want to appear all grown up and cool. It comes across as self loathing, insecure bullshit to me
I think there is a difference between hating someone for enjoying something childish or whimsical, and getting annoyed with someone because they act like their obsession with something from their childhood makes them better than you, that their treat their own emotional stunting as a virtue.