I guess the real Harry Potter were the Harries we Potted along the way.

Quick correction: Maya wasn’t fired, her contract wasn’t renewed. Again, her contract with the company had ENDED and they decided not to rehire her because of her transphobia. So she threw a fit.

I was a little nervous seeing this pop up as A Honorary Trans Person (tm), cause you're straight up one of my favourite new channels I've come across and I was worried there was gonna be some terrible takes, but damn if this wasn't blown clear out of the water. Especially touching on why she may hold the beliefs she does, given Terfs don't tend to pop out of the ground fully formed. It was doubly cool to hear from your friend Gwen she seems cool as

Also I like how you tried to be fair throughout, and I hope you never lose that man

Hold up, dude, you can't just underscore an uplifting take away with the Cannibal Holocaust theme. Great, now my subconscious has linked Harry Potter with impaled naked bodies.

I'm genderfluid, and I can't process this fully still. It hurts. A lot. And the people who say someone else wrote the books or helped make the movies are making it worse.

This was a lovely video! I really enjoyed watching it, despite my "ugh...must we?" feelings about JKR. I knew I could count on this channel for top quality, even when I thought I'd never want to watch another video essay about this again. But I had faith, and said to myself "give it a chance, he's never let you down yet" and man, I love being correct. I had a great time and left with a smile on my face, which for a twitterf rowling video essay, hey! it's an august miracle! there's a lot to unpack about all this, as they say, but alas, it's late and jackie karen there makes me exhausted even at the best of times. so I may come back tomorrow to leave a more thorough comment, but here's a few things about the video i loved real quick: - You have great friends. which we knew, but hey, always good to reiterate. I'm going to steal that "I'm not done with my dad yet" joke first chance I get. - Maya!! Give her a kiss on the head for me, please - tell her it's from the internet, and that we love her. yes, I feel perfectly valid in speaking for the entire internet on that. - I loved everything about the section with Gwen. okay off the bat, it's fantastic to even have a trans person's voice in this whole conversation, for one, which seems way too obvious a thing for it to be so rare. let alone after like 50 bajillion nerds' hot takes about it, but hey, here we are. But regardless, Gwen was great, and I appreciated her perspective and thoughtfulness here. I envy her capacity for compassion, even for someone like JK - I can't say I feel the same, at least not for that person, but that sort of kindness from Gwen is a great quality for a person to have. especially when it's for people who would not give you the same respect or consideration, like JK and her ilk. ah man, I gotta move on before I get mad, good vibes only for this comment...anyway... - I'd really like to see more of Gwen in your videos! I loved the dry "hopefully next time we can talk about something else other than trans, or gender" at the end of that segment, and it made me laugh out loud, bc one, okay, mood. there's a reason my best friend, who's also trans (other direction as me tho) wrote on the whiteboard in our living room in mid-March "DAYS SINCE WE LAST TALKED ABOUT GENDER: 0" (and no, we have not had to change it since...) i mean, we do talk about other stuff! in fact, we MOSTLY talk about other stuff! we're whole, complex individuals, with personalities and interests and everything, completely outside of gender! but i mean...well...yeah. for various reasons, yeah, between ourselves or with cis people, yeah... but also, you know what, yeah, I would enjoy hearing Gwen's perspective on other stuff too! from what we see in this video, I think she'd have interesting thoughts to share, in an insightful and funny way, on all sorts of topics. I'll pin a tangent about trans creators for another day, though. in conclusion: I'm incapable of writing short comments, I now no longer have any idea what a terf is, JKR who, and in this house there is only one valid Maya, long live the queen. thank you for your time.

Dude, I just found your channel, because of your nostalgia critic video. Top tier, funny shit. I just subscribed and binged all three of your videos.

Fantastic video. Intelligent, fair, and delivered with compassion and genuine concern. Beautiful. EDIT: Gwen is amazing and incredibly insightful. 1000% agree with the “art separated from artist” point as an avid music fan and creator.

You look like Icky-Thump-era Jack White if he were a transylvanian vampire. That's not an insult, I dig it.

Dude your shit is so high quality for such a small channel, the passion and effort you put in to each video really shows, not to mention your wide knowledge of film and theater. I hope you go far and start being able to make a living off this cos unlike a lot of people on this site you and your roommates/pals are crazy talented.

Notice the Room shirt "You're tearing me apart" when he discovers that JK is a terf

Man, that Cannibal Holocaust riff at the end is just the chef's kiss. Your voice is a refreshing one on KZfaq and glad to have discovered your channel through your The Wall review.

I knew that avoiding the HP books and movies when I was 6 was gonna pay out later

This channel deserves more subscribers

As a kid, I wasn’t allowed to watch Harry Potter. But I still did watch it. My favorite film has to be the Deadly Hallows (Both parts). I visited the Wizarding World multiple times at Universal Hollywood. God I love that frozen butterbeer.

This isn't as good as your first muckbang video but it's still pretty good.

Pausing adblock to give my boy Matt some paper $$$

0:59 is that a Spider-Man reference?

Great video! Was a little nervous going into watching this but I appreciated your takes a lot. I feel like JK manages to be both misandrist and misogynistic all in one. Her takes are extremely Straight White Cis Woman feeling and exclude virtually anyone else, or sometimes even people the same as her. For instance her obsession with that "people who menstruate" doesn't even have to be a trans argument, even if you removed that aspect entirely there are still hundreds of thousands (probably millions) of cis women who don't menstruate due to a whole slew of reasons. Plus her typical TERF sticking point of public bathrooms always seems to steer back to policing who can enter them, and oof it's such a tired take. I'm a cis woman myself, but thanks to physically looking (and sounding) quite androg and/or masculine, I am ALWAYS getting questioned in public bathrooms. I legit cannot enter a public bathroom most days without SOMEONE giving me a dirty look, making comment about the wrong bathroom or, in a few cases, being physically dragged out. I am a *cis woman* being told I can't piss in a womans bathroom thanks to people like JK policing what women should or shouldn't look like, which is ironically hugely anti-feminist imo because she's saying that unless you can pass her feminine test, you can't piss in her womanly spaces. All because I, a cis woman, do not cater to the normal visuals of a 'woman'. I can't imagine how much more frustrating it must be for trans people. (Although ironically several of my trans women friends pass far better than I, which is a bit of a running joke with us.)

Talks about Harry Potter Plays Dune music in the background Gotta love the layers to this!

I love the Evita parody songs you included in this review

The virgin JK Rowling vs the chad Daniel Radcliffe

with three years of hindsight and her not really changing at all (becoming increasingly associated with some incredibly dodgy people), I still hope maybe someday someone can sit down with her and she will understand the harm her statements are doing, but as is she is at a point down the TERF rabbit hole that it would take some serious brain rewiring to make her stance change. We can only hope that one day she finally realises the harm she's done

Again Cannibal Holocaust theme now associated with Minions And JK Rowling! Grrrrrr. LOL

Great video!

It's nice to hear the nuanced take on why she is so precious with this concept of womanhood. What sticks in my craw is she is one of the wealthiest artists alive today, one of the wealthiest people, with nothing but time and resources and passionate fans that can teach her why she is wrong. Hell, I went from being ignorantly transphobic to a vocal supporter of trans rights over a couple years watching youtube and befriending trans people! It feels like she's willfully resisting and I can't support her in that, but I hope she will come around.

I recently stumbled on your channel. You are really funny and the editing is super good! I can't wait until your channel blows up. :)

Oh my God, you actually did a cover/parody of an Evita song!!!! I was a fool for thinking I couldn't love your channel more 😂❤

dude, your friend gwen is hot!

I was in the same boat as you, with the twist that I hated her tweets more for how cheap a tactic it was to get attention without any real work. Don’t actually write a story showcasing these themes, just announce these traits afterwards for free praise! I was even half ready to defend her from cancel culture until my friend showed me who she was actually defending. Then it just kept getting worse

Little did we know Matt was gay all along

Regarding your stance on the whole educating thing, I technically agree, but we also live in an age where all information known to human kind (outside of personal scenarios) is available after a few button taps. Expecting trans people to do the emotional labor of explaining things that could easily be done by a computer is just... Eh. Not the spiciest of takes. And now that she's inserted herself into the legislation world, I'd argue we have a right to be pretty damn pissed off, and to direct it at the person who could potentially harm us. Still a good video despite how worried I was going in though.

I like that this video is outdated now because she has done even worse things now.

It makes me angry how underrated you are man, you deserve so much more credit.

This is an excellent, kind and intelligent video (not least for using my second - favorite Evita number).

excited!!!

Love the use of Cannibal Holocaust music. 😂

Yo, this video is amazing! I 100% agree with your points and arguments. As for my experience with Harry Potter, I loved the books and the films when I was younger. But after I read about J.K.'s dumbass retcons and later her... transphobia... let's just say I'm exclusively a fan of the movies nowadays. Changes from the books be damned. They're adaptations after all; changes can be made, I get that. For example, I honestly think the way Deathly Hallows Part II concludes the franchise is masterful, and I consider it to be one of the best conclusions to a series of films I've ever seen. And Prisoner of Azkaban is exquisitely directed by Alfonso Cuarón (even if I consider it his weakest film) and gorgeously shot and acted. The rest of the main movies all have their moments, especially the score and the overall charm and the action and creativity later on. I even liked the first Fantastic Beasts movie to an extent, even if the second one was kind of awful. Where was I going with this? Oh yeah, I'm giving credit to the other artists, not Joanne.

great vid as always! you brought up a lot of stuff i was unaware of in jk's history. i hope jk takes into account her audience and the people her words have affected (negatively and otherwise) and learns. i think someone with her money and status has the power to be very harmful in spreading anti-trans opinions, but hopefully, she sees the error of her ways before it's too late.

Hype

Rowling throwing around facts (both real and fake) as a part of a problem she knows nothing about to defend her transphobia is disgusting. She's getting clowned on and rightfully so. P.S, I loved what your friend had to say and appreciated it plenty. She has a good head on her shoulders.

16:42 It's like learning a girl likes Dragon Ball Z when you're a kid. That blew your mind. "That's awesome!"

I remember being excited when all the new movies came out, but seeing Rowling-a figure who was praised to high heaven for a franchise that taught love and understanding-be kinda angry and so open to attacking people is very sad.

Here's my tweet thread showing my opinion on JK Rowling and transphobes in general: twitter.com/daemonspudguy/status/1269722325903126528?s=19

You may have to do a similar video about joss wheadon

Two things. A. You're songs are great. B. Even though I love the Contrapoints and Lindsay Ellis takes on J.K. Rowling, I kind of like yours a bit better, because its 1. Edited down. 2. Has some fun songs in it.

Great video

Once again a great video, Matt👌 I've already binge-watched all your videoes and can't wait to see what you come up with in the future!

This is such a good quality video why do only have 1500 subs

Yeah there's always gotta be a but for people who claim to be supportive but are terfs like Rowling

I am of two minds when it comes to Terfs. Part of me wants to sympathize with anyone who has to endure radical feminism because I know how bad things can get there and no one deserves to be persecuted for how they are by a group that calls you disgusting for existing. On the other hand, remember when radfems were mainly concerned with attacking “Straight, cis men” and most of the Trans community, at best, ignored it entirely(If not actually agreeing with some of their values)? Yeahhhhh.

Uhm, no offense my dude, but don't you think that "In loving memory of Alan Parker" message in the end should have been in it's own tribute video? Just asking.

I’m in agreement with Lindsay Ellis. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hLyZjbx9kruco2Q.html JK has just doubled and tripled down too much to reach. She’s also actively promoting anti trans legislation in the U.K., which makes her actively harmful IMO.

Rowling's views on gender make a heck of a lot more sense than the incoherent, inconsistent, illogical gender ideology one is expected to believe in to be politically correct these days. Good for her for sticking to her views against the shaming people like you are trying to do to her; her bravery is worthy of a Gryffindor.