Cancelling of JK Rowling not going as planned

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattcraig/2025/05/30/jk-rowling-is-a-billionaire-again/

Love it !
Couldn't happen to a nicer woman ! We love you JK and thank you ! ❤️

She has a lot of quiet supporters

Such a mean spirited article, though.

I agree - they call her anti-trans, and say she opposes trans rights.
However, they also write that
. Forbes estimates she has donated more than $250 million in the past 20 years, primarily to three causes: Lumos, which has helped more than 280,000 abandoned children in orphanages in Romania, Haiti, Colombia and Ukraine; Volant, which supports victims of sexual abuse and domestic violence as well as at-risk children in Scotland; and the Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic, which treats patients with neurological conditions such as MS, the disease that took her mother’s life when Rowling was just 25.

It's hard to maintain that she is a hateful meanspirited bigot alongside that!

Wasn’t it just?

'A talented woman with too much money and the wrong opinions to boot!'

Not quite 'Burn the witch!' but the spitefulness and jealousy are palpable.

Yes, it was rather snippy.

Still,

“How do you sleep at night knowing you’ve lost a whole audience from buying your books,” wrote one X user in 2022.

“I read my most recent royalty cheques,” Rowling replied, “and find the pain goes away pretty quickly.”

I bet

$250 million to those good causes, and yet people are ignorant enough to say 'she doesn't do anything that isn't attacking trans rights'. I imagine her mother would be very proud. She has done a lot of good work with her fortune.

I'd forgotten about the MS charity. I wonder if Stephen Whittle has ever benefitted from it and how they'd feel about that? I suspect JKR wouldn't begrudge it. MS is a dreadful disease.

She's a remarkable woman and I have so much admiration for her. $250 million donations plus setting up Beira's Place is some how a stick to beat her with? Absolute nonsense.

Also, they point out she willingly pays the highest rate of income tax. Americans can't get their heads round anyone doing that.

I’d love to know how $400 million in box office revenue, against a film making budget of $250 million, constitutes a flop. I’m not arguing it, I have no knowledge what the revenue translates to, did it cover costs? Crap journalism.

Hollywood accounting is notoriously obscure and sometimes it's hard to know what the budget really is. But the production budget doesn't cover marketing and distribution costs, so a usual rule of thumb is that a film has to make 2.5 times its budget at the box office before the studio starts to turn a profit.

There's a big problem at the moment of budgets becoming too bloated, especially with so much investment in the superhero genre that audiences are starting to tire of. Some blockbusters (the last Indiana Jones) were so ridiculously expensive that even if audiences were interested in seeing them, it was almost mathematically impossible for them to be profitable.

The whole thing's overdue for a correction. For some reason, nobody makes mid-budget films any more, like romcoms that are pretty cheap once you've paid your stars. Even Disney can only absorb so many mega-budget flops.

She is a fucking queen.

In HP terms / major franchise terms it probably is a flop, it’s not even earned the same again as spent. But this was the film that came out after the Johnny Depp issues and recasting and the franchise with Ezra Miller and his controversy.

The reduced earnings were much more likely to do with those men and their association than JK. There is no evidence anywhere in her earnings profile that her support for women’s rights has dimmed love of her work in any real way.

Im really pleased to see that she’s still doing so well. It’s a nice big fuck you to those who would cancel her for standing up for women and girls.

Rowling posts several times a day in support of gender fundamentalism

Er, no you idiot, she opposes such ideas, that gender and its stereotypes fundamentally defines who we are. That’s trans activists.

Dear Matt Craig (whoever you are),

1. She doesn't post "in support of gender fundamentalism" (wtf?), she posts in support of women's rights.
2. She doesn't post about "trans issues", she posts about women's issues.
3. She hasn't published five Strike novels, she has published seven, soon to be eight.

Call yourself a journalist?

https://www.wearelumos.org/how-you-can-help/donate/

Just in case anyone fancies giving to a brilliant cause and / or dinner with JK

"I’ll match the total sum donated to Lumos between first offer and midnight Monday.

And once my three fellow diners have been chosen, we’ll have a vote on whether we’re having KFC or going to Il Portico."

I always laugh when I hear people say they’ve boycotted Harry Potter, surely if you’ve already bought the books by just not watching the films when they are on the tv makes very little difference to JK?

i also heard ‘all young people hate her’ except the ones in the new films? And the millions that will watch them?

I once witnessed a lot of hand wringing about this by a group of thirty something Americans who really really wanted to buy Hogwarts Legacy but hate JKR.

In the end they bought it but donated an equivalent amount to trans rights charities, as if it was fucking carbon offsetting. Clowns.

Haha idiots

I’ve a colleague who once told me they’d rather not hear Harry Potter or JK mentioned as they dislike her so much due to her views…. Not just not discuss her but nobody else can. ODFOD

There's a YouTuber I used to watch, a gay American guy who did pop culture commentary. He was pretty engaging and knowledgeable. I stopped watching him during lockdown, and I still remember the moment I unsubscribed.

He'd posted this video about being allowed out of the house for his one hour daily walk, and he really wanted to wear his Hogwarts scarf and backpack, but he didn't want to platform hate, and he went on and on and on about this terrible dilemma.

My first reaction was: Jesus, you're in your thirties and you're still so obsessed with Harry Potter that you're beating yourself up about your Hogwarts scarf?

My second reaction was to just find it incredibly sad, because if you'd watched him during lockdown you'd have seen his mental health visibly deteriorate week by week, and I didn't want to watch that any more.

I bet he's one of those guys who did the trans offset.

I don't know what has happened to Americans in my generation but they just seem like such immature babies. I know people my age in the UK who don't agree with JK Rowling but they don't feel the need to talk about it all the time, or continue to consume her work whilst participating in a bizarre public ritual where they have to say how much they hate her before they're allowed to continue consuming her work.

The Harry Potter books are great, but at the end of the day they are for children, and if you're an adult and you believe that JK Rowling is an evil bigot, why not just move on?

Even I don't read the Harry Potter books anymore because I've read them so many times and my children aren't old enough for them yet. Making being a Potterhead a defining feature of your personality is a bit weird (but completely harmless). Continuing to make it a defining feature of your personality when you hate the author is just bonkers.

People were buying multiple copies of the game to spite people like this - pretty sure that’s part of the reason it sold so well. As well as being a great game of course!

I mean, this is also bonkers and they would have been better off making a donation to one of her charities.