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On Diablo 4, the notion that people hated Diablo 3 is nearly a decade out of date. They fixed that game pretty quickly and it had a huge turnaround in opinion. Barely anybody remembers the early controversy around that game. It also sold 30 million copies in three years despite being PC only for a lot of that time.

As for the British feminists were always transphobic thing, this is wrong. There has been a big change. Also, its nothing to do with feminists. Sure, you can find a small minority who opposed trans rights (the mist famous being UK-based Germaine Greer, who is Australian), but it was never a huge thing until recently. And I think I am likely the only person in this thread to know a decent amount if British feminists (spoilers: none of them are transphobic, because transphobia in the UK is largely driven by older men). The reality is up until 2018 the UK was consistently topping indexes of the best places for trans people and the public polled near the top on trans-friendly views. At this point there was very little media coverage of transgender people especially from right wing sources. Then they announced the review into reforming the gender recognition process to make it easier and extremist groups pounced on that, funded by religious extremists out of the US like the heritage foundation. Then in 2020 the Conservative government which had been trans-friendly announcing these pro-trans reforms suddenly starts to go into all these culture war issues most notably transphobia. The reason for THAT is none other than brexit.

The Tories ran out of things to divide people with after brexit happened (and a large majority of people saw how stupid it was) and did an investigation into which issues they could use to split people for electoral advantage. So at the same time, you suddenly start getting a huge number of anti-trans articles in right wing papers (which two billionaire control and make up 70% of UK newspaper circulation). What all this does is to have an effect on attitudes in the UK. Trans-friendly views became less common over the next few tears according to polls, the UK started to drop in LGBT rankings and while it still fares better on trans rights and overall the country got worse. It was not always like this, actually it used to be pretty good. This is a recent thing manufactured by the government and a few influential right wing groups who would then give us Trussonomics. It is a top-down issue not a bottom up one.

All throughout this one thing has been very clear from the data: men are more transphobic than women. Women routinely poll as more trans-friendly in the UK and are overall supportive of trans rights. This is extra notable because usually the gender divide on sociopolitical views in the UK is quite small. There is also a major age component to it. The reality is, transphobia in the UK is not driven by feminists it is driven by older men who use a minority of feminists as a shield because womens rights makes for a good excuse. Rowling of course is the biggest example of this. It makes sense as theres nothing especially feminist about attacking vulnerable women.

So on Rowling, while we can never know without reading her mind, I am personally a believer in her being radicalised late. There has been a major shift in the UK over the last four years as I outline, transphobic views used to be very niche. Rowling also used to be a major supporter of the Labour party in the 2000s, while they were implementing many, many pro-trans reforms. So the reality is that most of the pro-trans rights and protections the UK has were helped by Rowlings money! Bet she wouldnt want you to know that. She didnt tweet any transphobic material as far as I am aware until 2018. Along with the UK population as whole sadly getting more transphobic, I believe this all makes it seem that she was radicalised around 2018. The central idea of this post is that people and population can change and sometimes they change for the worse. Also like a lot of situations this is right wing pressure groups and brexit taking off their hood to reveal that it was them all along.