Quick point. The media is and always has been about, in no small measure, about holding the elite and power to account. That has been since it's inception about bridging the gap between the public through the media. The media can influence the public to a degree but the public won't buy / engage with content which isn't reflective of how they feel either. It has changed with social media, by largely cutting out the middle man. That's what memes are about. A continuation of the ridicule of the excess and indulgent behaviour of the elite.
In this particular case, Harry knows this and is trying to play a game of engaging with the public for his own benefit. His position means he is far from naive about any of this. He has learnt from an early age about it. PR and how it works is the bread and butter of the Royals. He thinks he can make his own future from taking control of this himself. For his own financial benefit and for the political benefit of his family. His political benefit is 'getting his side of the story across' to try and change the family to suit his own beliefs and to shape the future of the Royals. You will note everything he says is still relational to the family, and none of it about forging an independent path away from the family. The irony here, is Harry's value diminishes if he no longer has his title and he is nothing if he's not a Royal. (And the interesting thing here is the Queen didn't remove his title and the King hasn't removed him from being one of the Royals responsible in his absence even though he's no longer a working Royal and he hasn't removed his title and I suspect that won't change in the immediate aftermath either).
Harry is trying to work the public here. This isn't stuff the media has papped or dug up from somewhere to embarrass Harry. His book and TV series is a premeditated, deliberate and concerted effort for further sympathy for Harry. And thus the public are actively INVITED by Harry himself, to give a positive or negative review to this.
To frame the public giving a firm thumbs down on a business move and as 'bullying' is utter bullshit which fails to recognise and acknowledge the business that Harry is in. The PR and marketing business. That's the Royals family business.
All Harry is doing is demonstrating with the book is he is failing to connect with the public, which he had done successfully for considerable time. He isn't understanding the business he's in. The oversharing and selling his own privacy and the privacy of others is backfiring.
It's not just dragging his family into it. It's dragging people like the woman who he lost his virginity into it. People like the military. People who have been loyal to him and HAVEN'T sold their stories to the press. When perhaps the money and the fame might hold much more benefit to their lifestyle than it ever will to Harry.
The public book review is memes. It doesn't have to sophicasted.
His book is a commercial venture. It is not bullying to say 'what a crock of shite' via a meme as a member of the public he's trying to win and get support from to further his personal goals.
It's an embarrassing lesson on why you should take good advice from people who not only have your interests at heart, not just their own.
The mental health stuff is just bollocks PR to spin how badly the launch is going imho. Its a damage limitation exercise by people who dislike the Royals and are realising that Harry has fucked his own agenda. (I'm not sure many actually really give a shit about Harry himself tbh).
For me, whether he doubles down or backtracks going on about wanting a reconciliation in interviews this week will be interesting.
Ultimately, if this was about Harry wanting to get his story 'out there' as much as possible, he could have done it without attaching a price tag to it. He's has because this is about maintaining his lifestyle and status first and foremost. The rest is secondary to that. He wants to remain elite and famous. He doesn't want to avoid the media eye and the comments of the public. He wants the public on his side...
Wise up. Harry has a chip on his shoulder and wants to punish his family and wants to get one over on them. The gamble isn't working because he doesn't get that he can't complain to the same public he's hard done by
Pulp's Common People describes the sentiment Harry is coming out with well here...
'Bullying' na. It's the public reply to his propaganda appeal to them by pointing out that he'll never see roaches climb the wall. And holding him to account by saying 'jog on rich boy, get with the programme and stop being a bellend about this. We get ya, you don't get on with your family and feel hard done by. Just like millions of others. Grow up and get the fuck on with it rather than whining like a baby about it and realise all the wonderful things in your life you DO have'.
This is completely separate to whether you like the Royals or not and think they have a place going forward. And it's completely separate to anything to do with Meghan. This is his story. His book. Time for him to take responsibility for his own misjudged commercial move. Or live with it.
Meme on. Satire has always been about power and accountability and responsibility taking. The public in this particular dynamic are exercising their response as requested. It's may or may not be the response Harry likes but it's what he INVITED. Harry doesn't get to escape book reviews cos he's royal even if he's got a dodgy therapist.
If a car crash does happen, then I don't think there was an alternative anyway. He's got to make better decisions one way or another. And sometimes if you are mentally ill, you can't do that until you crash and burn regardless of how bloody awful that might be. He's certainly not sectionable so he retains that capacity to make decisions for himself and himself alone. Even bad ones. He has the right to make bad decisions...