We’re at T-minus 10-ish hours until Hogwarts Legacy officially releases, and a new front has been opened by the anti-Hogwarts Legacy contingency intended to kill interest in the game before it’s released — rampant spoiler-posting.
— cait.bsky.social (@punished_cait) February 8, 2023
Hogwarts Legacy has proven extremely controversial ahead of its release thanks in large part to the various TERF controversies of Harry Potter author JK Rowling and other aspects surrounding the game’s plot and development.
With calls to boycott the game apparently failing, posting warning-free spoilers is less tangibly harmful strategy than what boycotters have previously attempted but is potentially very annoying for anyone interested in playing the game.
Anyone looking to avoid spoilers for Hogwarts Legacy will be facing a difficult time online over the following few days. Currently, the official hashtag for the game on Twitter is not safe to scroll (example spoiler post here), while Know Your Meme can independently confirm that spoilers can appear on various social media timelines untagged and in the form of screenshots — meaning spoiler-averse fans can’t even mute relevant keywords to ensure they’ll never come across one.
The new tactic employed by the Hogwarts Legacy boycotters drew expectedly divided reactions online, as some thought it was a justifiable and non-violent way to protest the game while others thought it was a dirty tactic.
So now that the boycott of Hogwarts Legacy failed the r/gamingcirclejerk subreddit is now just spamming spoilers for the game.
It was never about trans rights or furthering a cause for good. They just want to ruin this thing for you lmao
True degeneracy pic.twitter.com/Mn3omF31yw
— The Act Man (@TheActMan_YT) February 9, 2023
https://twitter.com/LiteralGrill/status/1623347617253183491
https://twitter.com/LiteralGrill/status/1623347617253183491
PSA: do NOT check Hogwarts Legacy tweets if you plan on playing the game as some people have taken to spamming spoilers in replies in a depressing effort to ruin people’s enjoyment because they’ve become so terminally online that they truly believe they’re heroes for this 💀
— Ameer (@SynthPotato) February 8, 2023
Of course, there was also a contingency of people with no interest in the game who came across the spoilers and affirmed their position that the Harry Potter series is nonsensical and childish.
https://twitter.com/alyssakeiko/status/1623691382777954304
seeing people spoil the Harry Potter game for political reasons is the new funniest aspect of the war over this game. cause like what are you gonna do, publicly get mad online as a grown adult that someone spoiled your children’s book game for babies
— ape attack survivor (@pissvortex) February 7, 2023
Hogwarts Legacy still has not been officially released yet, meaning it will be some time until we can see if any of the boycotting strategies actually end up affecting sales of the game.
