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I am amused that Malfoid is arguably the first western pop-culture cross-media hit that is almost purely AI generated in its cross-media forms. It might not have started that way, it and wasn't only that way, but fanart turned into concepts and videos solely because of AI, and people are accepting it.
I don't think I've ever said it because I find most AI talk boring, but part of my view of AI in culture is that the 'shun the AI enjoyers' position of the anti-AI-slop cohort was going to collapse when more people found themselves enjoying AI. In the same way it's harder to hold gender class hatred when you fraternize with the other side, or to hate a sin you relish enjoying, once you find something to enjoy from AI you are increasingly complicit. First it starts as an exception, then maybe the good ones, and then a passive acceptance.
For Malfoid itself, I do agree with the general 'beating Voldey with the power of love' line of 'it just makes sense!' I think you could have done it with other forms of love, but I think Harry Potter would have had to be a drastically different sort of story to be that. I think there was an AAQC nom from yesteryear about how Neville was the real boy-who-lived and Harry was a decoy protagonist, and that had a certain sort of fraternal love. Maybe if Draco and Harry were secret siblings stolen apart by the death eaters, they could have had a fraternal love-rivalry. But turning Malfoy into Malfoid doesnn't lose much, given Malfoy was a deliberately unlikable piece of shite who none the less gave us the Draco in Leather Pants trope, and I will never forgive the yaoi fangirls for that.
So tsundere Malfoid works, and yaoi Malfoy with leather pants is tainted by the human element, and ain't that a kick for AI?
Hanania-chan is a tsundere for rightwing attention. Whatever else one thinks of Rowling, she isn't tsundere about her interests.
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