I guess boycotting Harry Potter feels pretty trivial to me, because I'm an adult. if someone told me I shouldn't eat Gerber's baby food, I'd be like, that is no problem. I'm way ahead of you

March 29, 2026 - 16:55 UTC

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The internet has lost sight of what the word "boycott" means. A lot of people confuse the idea of ditching something for personal reasons and never getting into it in the first place.

Not playing defense for the HP heads, btw, they find a way to be obnoxious even as people are being mean to them.
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Source?
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I stopped reading the books a few years before the 7th released. Read it a few years later and then never picked the series up after that because, you know... I became an adult 🤷‍♂️ it's kind of weird to obsess about a kids book beyond the age bracket it was made for
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Also, really can't be understated how easy it is to pirate this stuff and never talk about it. People aren't mad anyone is cutting them off, they are quite specifically mad because they're told to stop giving her money and promoting her work.
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Piracy also creates demand
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Naw, fuck that. Don't even watch it. Let it fade from culture entirely.
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the 'just pirate it' argument is chickenshit tbh, it is pathetic if somebody needs harry potter so badly they need to find workarounds
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idk dog if you wanna teach someone so stupid they're a vocal wizard fan in current year then good luck because i guarantee they'll either "just find it too hard" every time or fuck up literally every step of the way as they think they're finally getting there and watch harry_potter_series.exe
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I have no specific love for the series I just want to make sure their argument about "letting go of their childhood" is understood to be a false dichotomy.
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i gave the books a try when i was 12 and thought them pretty bland. i don't care for most of the movies either, and regardless of my opinions on the artistic content of the franchise, trans people's lives are 1000% more important ♡🏳️‍⚧️
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I wish Harry Potter wasn't made by such a scumbag, because, despite not being all that interested in the story, they get the sickest LEGO Sets 💔🥀
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Gerber actually tried making baby food for adults, called Gerber's Singles. It was as horrible an idea as it sounds, and it flopped as badly as you'd expect.
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Don't support Harry Potter because the author is transphobic. This *kicks rock* "It's not even that good... I could do better if I tried..." Routine is embarrasing.
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A ton of people have always thought she sucked ass, and your observation is some stale bullshit generally trotted out by dickheads from Hufflepuff.
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I mean it isn't good. Derivative of far better works at best
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your taste not changing between the ages of 10 and 35 is pretty embarrassing
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Where did he say he thought it was low-quality baby food
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it isn't, and i could
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I enjoy HP. Along with literally millions of other people. The elitism in these threads is super off-putting. I don’t want to support the author and won’t, but I hate that ‘my side’ is full of pretentious snobs who are super comfortable stating that my taste is objectively shit.
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People seem to not get this, so I'll clarify. The quality of Harry Potter is completely immaterial. If the money from ut is going towards hateful causes, it being the best or worst book ever made stops mattering. And bringing it up devalues that criticism into "fandom drama".
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This post is RoboCop erasure.
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Eh, some of these adults have kids. How I would frame it is, I wouldn't purchase baby food that's made of feces for my baby.
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The Harry Potter fandom doesn’t consist largely of kids though, it’s 40 year-olds who never got round to reading a second book.
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I read lots of ya fantasy stuff, so HP should be exactly for me. But fuck if I’ll ever spend a dime on that hateful racist and transphobic bs
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Feels like it’s for the “rah rah let’s boycott Target every 6 months crowd”. That fan group can’t fathom a sacrifice. “But this was our childhood “. Fuck that. The author is a far right Transphobe. there are other more interesting authors out there. Time to ditch the childhood kiddies.
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More like Goebbels Baby Food am I right
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Gerber is owned by Nestlé, which is not exactly an innocent company either
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I mean, he and his wife fed their children some pretty nasty stuff.
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The fact people are ready to sell their values to the funnest bidder and think they're the mature ones is cray-cray.
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Like, sure, I have good memories of Harry Potter.
I would also like to keep making good memories with my trans friends.
If asked to choose, I'll pick real people.

Being a grown up is not about moving away from your teen fandom.
It's understanding your fun has a price. And it may be too expensive.
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I was a young adult when the original books came out & adults of all ages were reading them, not just kids. Same with the movies. Now many of you who were eating baby food and watching Harry Potter movies back then are having babies and continuing the tradition now. Fuck JKR & her bigotry.
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I won’t let concessions from P&G end my boycott of pull ups.
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Gerber apple juice lies, for DECADES
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Boycotting Harry Potter for me is about as difficult as boycotting Enid Blyton: enjoy treacle only when made from the purest Demerara cane.
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the thing I always compare it to is: people were this way about Chik Fil A a while back when people found out they were run by Christian psychos, and as contemptuous as that is *at least the chicken was actually good*
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your handle is powerful, holy shit
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Wonderful quote about the definition of adult reading: www.lewisquotes.com/quotations/adulthood/adulthood-and%20childishness.html
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Thank you for posting this. I have no problem with people not liking HP (and I will never again knowingly give her any money). But it’s also okay to enjoy YA fiction as an adult, & crapping on people who enjoy it says more about the critic than the people they criticize.
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“Don’t you dare read Ayn Rand!”

Easy! since I’m not a 16 year old virgin
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Okay, what if instead of baby food we talk about...

Pizzas? Hamburgers? Ice Creams?

Because some people think that's not 'food for adults'. And being an adult is very important.

Are you an adult who does adult things, SERIOUS and IMPORTANT adult things, and not childish things?
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But but my ABDL RP evening would be ruined without it.....
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My brother in Christ, Mohamed, and so forth, it being for kids should be the least of your concerns
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My brother in christ you have an anime profile picture.
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Famous children's program, Akira.
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That is NOT a children's anime! I'm dead!!!
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From 9 years before Harry Potter too
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...that's...fucking Akira, dude
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Akira was a seinen manga, which are marketed toward adults typically 18-30
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why are you highlighting the good reason he clearly doesn't need harry potter anymore?
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so do you
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what is King of the Hill? quickly
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For those saying Akira is anime, no, it isn't. King of the Hill is anime.
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Ok, mister western anime profile pic.
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(sitting down to watch Urotsukidoji with my 9yo) “This is a cartoon so I’m sure you’ll love it!”
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So do you
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? you have an adult animation profile picture too, pal.
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It's adults who are taking their kids to the Broadway play and the retail store.

Boycott harry Potter. And put Rowling, that bigot, in her place.
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I just…don’t care about HP anymore. It’s been so many years since it was relevant and there’s so many better stories out there
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The movies were fun. I recognize her source material.
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There's a good reason why most authors have only a tiny section about them at the end of their books. While some are admirable people, there are some monsters. Sometimes, it's best not to know much about the writer to enjoy the book. Still,
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when this is a billionaire who spends her wealth trying to erase a group of people, she's really given up that special relationship that most writers usually have with their readers, usually summed up as: "Enough about me, let's have some fun with stories instead."
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I'm a Millennial who read the books as a kid. Apparently it's going to take 14 years or so for the whole series to be released, as they've said there could be a couple of years between seasons. At that rate I'm going to be 53 by the last season
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It’s more like pop-tarts: a food that people usually consume more of during childhood, that adults also enjoy but to a lesser extent, and which have a LOT of competition in products that are clearly superior and made by less problematic manufacturers.
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Maybe.,Nobody makes brown sugar though.
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I don't know how so many people haven't moved on to love some new media. we're adults now, we can become obsessed with David Fincher films or True Detective or The Sopranos or something.
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I have never read it and watched parts of one of the movies maybe 4 or 5? It's no great loss to me. Seems silly to hold on, but I am not sentimental. I've already had to cut out a few of my favorite authors from childhood, but there more out there.
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The powerful Dunkaroo lobby will not be thrilled about this.
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Harry potter was an integral part of my childhood and it can stay there. No amount of money is going to make me find more meaning than an adult book. What sucks is i suspect we'll hear a lot of bad stories in years to come with the kid actors, in the name of millenial nostalgia and terfdom
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Michael, you should boycott Gerber's baby food.
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Like, imagine if someone came up to you wearing a jacket lauding their favorite branded orphan-crushing machine. That's what someone wearing a slytherin jacket is doing.
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"No you don't understand there's so much lore behind the operation of this orphan crushing machine, it's very engaging fiction" cool story bro but you still paid the orphan crushing machine to advertise the orphan crushing machine, don't associate with me or my friends.
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Totally. 💯
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the absolute stupidest fucking people in the entire world are mad at you for this one
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Tbh as an adult who still watches cartoons, I didn’t really interpret this tweet as making fun of people for liking “childish” media, more than I saw it as just mocking a series like HP that appeals to the lowest common denominator, to the point where it can only be enjoyed by kids at this point.
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Fuck JKR and fuck Harry Potter, but also fuck thumbing your nose at people and calling the media they like "childish."

It's certainly a take from someone who is a comic artist. I guess comics aren't childish though, right?
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Not rejecting Harry Potter is the equivalent of persisting with thumb-sucking or dragging 'round your filthy, shredded, blankie.
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How do I boycott something I never liked to begin with?
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Make competition? Idk lolol
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Guess who has the authority to decide what will be aired in households that DO have children.
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Because comics are so adult.
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With a heavy heart I must depart from the fruit snacks fandom. Even though I, as an adult, do enjoy them from time to time.
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Yeah that's why I have a hard time calling it a boycott because I probably wasn't gonna watch it anyway. No great sacrifice is being made
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Curious what people really see in it, because ‘teenagers in magic british boarding school‘ is compelling, but the flavor has been chewed out of that gum twenty years ago.

Star Wars is several series in a universe, Marvel is many separate stories, Pokemon has MANY facets. So what’s HP all about?
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That’s not the point
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unpopular opinion: watching (pirated) Harry Potter movies, or playing Lego Harry Potter games does not make you a transphobe
proof: the main cast of HP movies is actually pro-trans rights

I think it's a silly boycot that isn't necessary to follow, but to each their own I guess
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I think your last sentence is your actual view and the rest was unnecessary.

Also the general rule with piracy is that there's really no reason to bring up content you pirate.
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Yeah, everyone gets where you're coming from.
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Inaccurate opinion- studios also try to gather piracy data, which informs them on IPs' popularity
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If watching/subscribing puts more money into JKR’s bank account, which she will then use to hurt trans folk - then no, it’s not at all silly, it’s entirely necessary.
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You're spot on. That is an unpopular opinion. It's shite
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If you as an adult need to consume the children’s media of a transphobe that badly then you’ve got a serious problem.

And that shit was always derivative and mid anyway. Grow up and let it go.
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A bunch of trans people ask for what's probably the easiest sacrifice that could still be considered a sacrifice for their comfort and safety, and it's handwaved off as "silly" and "not necessary".

How fair-weather an allyship to be making a judgement call on what counts as transphobic.
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It is true that good art can be made by terrible people that do not deserve your money (Roman Polanski comes to mind). Luckily Harry Potter is not good art so it can safely be discarded.
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but also the gerbers baby isn’t gleefully attacking the other babies with every jar sold
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"Things I don't like are childish" isn't an adult take. Adults recognize that other people can like something they do not.

Fuck JKR and HP, for the record, I'm just very over insecure people calling me a kid because they've decided something I like can only be enjoyed if you're under 18.
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Do you really not see how childish your behavior is? People are free to make fun of me/things I like. I don't care! Grow the fuck up.
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They are kids books without much literary merit. Adults can enjoy such things, but clinging to them is indeed childish.
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I think the insecurity is coming from inside the house
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Like genuinely who is lining up for all of this butterbeer flavored bs. Absolute fools
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There are a lot of people who must be really fun at parties in these comments.
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I personally don't like shitting on people for having "childish" interests, but I will say it is VERY immature to continue supporting something when the creator is an asshat bigot just because it's something from your childhood.
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I say this because I feel like a lot of neurodivergent people get shit for this sort of thing, and as I neurodivergent person myself who likes stuff meant for a younger demographic... Yeah...

The books aren't the most well-written though, and I encourage HP fans to give other fantasy novels a try!
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the hardest thing for me is getting into fantasy franchises that are miles better

not that I dont want to I just lose motivation way too easily
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ah, but what about death of the food manufacturer?
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Fortunately my 11 year old self boycotted Harry Potter before the books had even finished. Mostly because I discovered Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, which completely recalibrated my quality bar, and it was very hard to go back after that.
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Haha yea my future step mom gave me the first one for xmas and i read it in like two days on xmas break cause the library was closed then went “that was fucking boring” because I already had Pullman and L’Engle way earlier. Its a shame I was an adult before I found Le Guin though
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of all the things I am boycotting right now this is by far the easiest one.
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careful, you’ll upset the disney adults
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The amount of full-grown adults swooning around the Harry Potter store in NYC (don't ask) is very embarrassing.
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Suddenly you have three hundred replies screaming about how Gerbers Baby Food was their childhood and how they need to revisit that childhood feeling.

But also in this scenario Gerbers funds racism
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I basically agree with you, I have no sympathy for people still excusing HP

But it’s not really like baby food, if I think about what it “costs” I have to assume it’s more like giving up a fictional world I’ve loved since childhood like Star Wars

Which I’d totally do if it was funding TERFism!!
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How about boycotting Star Wars because Hamill supports Israel? He was one of the actors that signed the letter.
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Gerber is owned by Nestlé, which is up to a lot of evil shit too tbh
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HOW DARE YOU, I MEAN FUCK HARRY POTTER BUT NOBODY WILL STOP ME FROM CENTERING MY LIFE AROUND THE BERNSTEIN BEARS YEAH THAT'S RIGHT BERNSTEIN NOT BERENSTAIN OR WHATEVER I WILL LIVE IN A TREE AND BE A BEAR AND HAVE A FAMILY- ALL ALSO BEARS- AND WE WILL LEARN LESSONS AND WEAR BEAR CLOTHES
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Shitting myself was a big part of my childhood.
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But also, Harry Potter is hella mid. And there're a million other fictional universes to explore and get lost in.
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I keep seeing this reposted, and... how can people not see this cuts both ways? Did you enjoy the queer reboot of She-Ra? According to this you're a giant useless baby. 🧐

Harry Potter is bad because it's the product of a bigot using its profits in service of genocide, not because kids liked it.
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i'm continuing my ongoing boycott of sleeping in a bed shaped like a giant racecar
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You had me until this because I famously had a racecar bed until age 31 😔
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At least sleeping in a bed shaped like a race car isn't supporting trans genocide.
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I was on board until this reply. I suspect my life would be improved immensely by a race car bed.
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i wanna sleep in a bed shaped like Lupin III's iconic yellow Fiat 500, introduced to the series by Hayao Miyazaki
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I am not, and will be accepting any racecar beds if anyone would like to tuck me into one, thank you for your attention to this matter
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surely a real race car is larger than a typical race car bed
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(Politically) I don’t even eat go-gurt
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now that's a crime against humanity i demand giant race car equality for everyone
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Your loss!!!!
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"Eating Chef Boyardee ravioli helped me through my rough childhood."
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Weirdly there are millions of adults out there still being like, "Uhgg, I know all these racecar shaped beds go to support Nazis, but it's just so fun to feel like I'm zooming around when I go to sleep!"
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hi i just found your page and i just wanted to say i love your work! im reading birds of maine and its bringing me lots of joy i feel so grateful to own a copy so i can reread it anytime. your humor is some of my favorite that ive ever come across and the art makes my brain so happy 💙🍄🕊️
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Someone hasn't tried the bananas, and it shows.
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This isn’t the flex you think it is dude. There’s nothing wrong with enjoying media aimed at children/teens as an adult. There’s everything wrong with bigotry. Just stand against bigotry and don’t be a pretentious asshole.
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It felt to me moreso that "media aimed at children really shouldn't be all that difficult to walk away from as an adult (especially when funding that media is helping fund bigotry)" was the message.

(The bigotry's bad part is implied by HP being the subject, and not, say, The Muppets.)
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You would be surprised how many adults are into it to a disturbing degree.

See also: Disney Adults
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The proper analogy for Gerber's here would be "if someone told me I shouldn't let my kids eat gerber's"

Not a perfect one since plenty of adults still spend money on HP. But at least get half of it right haha.
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After watching the entire movie franchise, I concluded that I should watch the entire Attack on Titan series…to keep my childish whimsy.
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The berty compote though?
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Oops I mean the berry applesauce
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Your profile picture is Akira, a 1988 anime about children.
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The movie "Boy in the Striped Pajamas" is a movie about children.
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As anyone who has read or seen Akira knows, About Children definitely for sure is the same as For Children
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it is actually a poster of the 1987 film "Broadcast News." i'm not familiar with Akira but i'll look it up on Youtube
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About children ≠ for children, and it's worrying that you don't understand this

m.youtube.com/watch?v=TFCZFwHOx_A
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me when i definitely know anything about akira aside from the google ai summary
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Discovery feed type post
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This guy did work for Adventure Time.
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yeah they actually don't usually let kids perform labour, but to your credit america is trying to change this
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Literally! I was in high school at the time of the third book (remember, folks, it was angry, reactive Christians who made it famous) and thought “Eh, it’s entertaining kid stuff.” and stopped caring much beyond that.
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Yeah.

I fully support those who say we should boycott, but I wouldn't have watched anyway.
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And book burning is so 3rd Reich...🫤
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ooooh someone's horny for Discourse today
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Gerber banana baby food slaps 🍌
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Someone blocked me cause they think that I am sticking up for asshat rowling. I just think you shouldn’t pass on trying the banana again as a grown adult.
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gerber food is kinda tasty tho ngl
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hang on im thinking of something really dumb to say in reply
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There’s nothing wrong with liking childish things as an adult, but supporting Rowling is a slap in the face to any trans friends & family 1 might have. It is not about separating art & artists while she is so actively campaigning & financing hate. She is also an assault on the rights of cis women.
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Flintstones vitamins get none of my money
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It’s great being slightly too old to have ever been into Harry Potter in the first place because it means there’s so much discourse I just don’t have to care about at all.
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exactly, it's at most a minor pleasure among minor pleasures, one franchise among countless. Yet apparently some people's morals are so flimsy that they cannot bear even that most meager of sacrifices.
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Yet it seems to be impossible for supposed adults to boycott HP media.

I've had too many people yell at me online in defense of the transphobic hag and hoe they NEED to watch the new HBO series when it comes out.
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this is the only reasonable take
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Not a millennial I guess? Millions of fully grown adults chat happily about whether they're Slytherin or Griffindor.
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which one is hairy potter
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So adults shouldn't like kid things. This is the most boomer take.
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people are raising their kids on it though.
i get wanting to share the favorite parts of your childhood but one day your kids will learn the full context of the trans hate movement and find out you knew about everything and kept funding it anyway.
how can it possibly be worth it?
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