That's a lot of words to avoid explaining how buying these doughnuts is appreciating the art and not enriching the artist, and how separating the artist from the art applies here.

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world -2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I'm sorry that words are difficult for you.

[–] blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately your problem is that I understood your words too well. How else would I be able to tell that you didn't respond to what I said at all? If I had a poor understanding of words, I'd see all your big words and how many of them there were and think "Wow, this guy must eb correct".

So, since you were the one to fail to respond to what was asked in the first place, the question is which words I used were so incomprehensible that you ended up spending 20 minutes typing up something that didn't apply? Was it "correctly"? Maybe "doughnuts" since it's spelled in a regional way?

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world -1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

The bulk of the words were pointing out that a part of being able to separate an artist from their art is not caring if enjoying their art led to a financial benefit for the person you dislike. I enjoy some music made by serial adulterers. I've enjoyed movies that include actors who are generally known to be complete pieces of shit to most humans they interact with. I'm not researching everything about the lives and views of everyone involved with every piece of media I enjoy. And it's very possible for awful people to make wonderful things. I'm not going to stop enjoying those things because of that, even if I strongly dislike the artist as a person.

tl;dr: I don't fucking care if she gets a penny because I buy a dozen donuts. She has a mountain of money. You're not financially harming a billionaire by not eating a donut.

[–] blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

The question was about how you see buying these doughnuts as appreciating the art more than supporting the artist, not how much you care about giving the artist a penny.

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 16 minutes ago)

If you enjoy the art, which in this case would be Harry Potter, then how buying Harry Potter collaboration donuts is appreciating that art should be self evident. Just like how folk who enjoy Transformers might buy Transformers toys or cookies.

That's the entire point of marketing collaborations. Getting folk who like one thing to buy something else that thing is doing a collaboration with. When it's a collaboration with a popular form of artistic media it's being done to get folk who appreciate said media to but said collaboration product. In this case donuts.

It's not Tim Hortons doing a JK Rowling or Emma Watson collaboration, or that is what they would be advertising and the campaign and product would reflect that. The entire thing is talking about the artistic media, not any individual real human person.