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By showing Google Trends, an insight of how popular the new franchise is compared to the Harry Potter franchise can be put into perspective.

The exposure of the Wizarding World has been enormous throughout the years and can be described as an ongoing trend. This article was written for general readers with an interest in one of the biggest franchises and fandoms in the world, as well as for the fans themselves. Thus, the question arises if this could be the same scenario for Fantastic Beasts and because most people have an affinity with the Wizarding World franchise, we want to give our readers a general overview of the fandom’s opinions towards the new movies (with some magical visualisations). It was seen by many fans as a failure and this movie received tons of hate online from both critics and fans ( Forbes, 2018 & Express, 2018), however when a study by Morton Bay (2018) was performed on Twitter, only 21.9% of the comments were negative. It has even led to some parts of the fandom developing an anti-fandom mindset (Garner, 2018), which means that fans will disassociate themselves from a specific part of a franchise because they dislike it that much.įantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald isn’t the first movie in a massive franchise to receive backlash, this happened with other famous movies such as Star Wars: The Last Jedi only two years ago. However, since the second Fantastic Beasts movie was released there seems to be more backlash than ever before on the franchise. It is one of the most impactful phenomena of the last two decades and has gathered a large following. The Wizarding World has been a long ongoing trend that has intrigued many millennials ever since the first book was released in 1997 up until the latest Fantastic Beasts movie in 2018.

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