A Deep Dive into Potterheads 

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I literally am working with a kindergarten kid who is named Hermione and when I was doing assessment with her I casually asked her, “so… your mother really loves reading huh?” And she gave the most tortured sigh I’ve ever heard from a kindergartener and said “yes…” Also she has a classmate named Sherlock which is a whole other iceberg lol

call me crazy but i don't think writing fanfiction should be tiered deeper on the iceberg than naming your child after a harry potter character

I´ll name my kid Dobby and never give him any clothing until it´s 18th birthday, at which point I´ll give it an old single sock, tell it "You´re free" and throw it out of the house. That´s true fan dedication!

i don't write fanfic but when i was younger, maybe 13 or 14, i did write a harry potter fanfic.. it was about the plants in the herbology classroom, for some reason all of them were sentient and they were having a little soap opera whenever nobody was in there

His mustache looks like two capybaras kissing

i named both my kids after HP characters, but both are regular names that people wouldn’t know unless i told them. i love my little xenophilius and baby mundungus

Crying over the house you were assigned on the original Harry Potter website is a right of passage. I fully sobbed over being sorted into Slytherin because I thought it meant I was evil.

my sixth grade teacher ms baker made her whole curriculum and classroom themed around harry potter. there were four tables and each quarter shed rotate the tables around the room but wed be the same houses. we had a point system and read up to the fourth book as a classroom. she also....made us play quidditch....at some point... the golden snitch was a kid she deemed "the fastest" and yes he had the tennis ball groin and yes we used "brooms" my favorite month in her class was actually when we studied greek culture! we had a toga party and designed pots or something. then we went back to harry potter. she made us our own wands with us out of hot glue, gems, and various earth toned paints. she actually was an amazing teacher!! she taught many valuable life skills like how to manage money and made us live on a fake budget for a day. she encouraged each of us to learn and be creative. i was in honor choir, our school music, and also won first place in the science fair all with her encouragement. she was a great teacher but her and the other 6th grade teacher just so happened to be massive potterheads 😭😭

Kurtis didn't use the Barbie "balls" audio once when talking about the Golden Snitch. This is character growth

I don't think writing fanfiction should be on the same level as actual *delusion*

I love how one of Kurtis' curls forms an S shape when he talks about the Snape Wives and the S shapes they see

PLOT TWIST: when they think they're shifting its just a dream that feels like 8 months or however long. ive had a few dreams like that, but it was a weird town made of buckets. i have that dream a lot

The literal worst HP thing I've ever seen was a website that was just a countdown until Emma Watson turned 18 so it would be "okay" to sexualize her. Even to this day, I feel so bad for her because of how gross people are about her.

Fun fact, I named my daughter after a Harry Potter character! My daughter Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way is the light of my life ❤️❤️❤️

THE TWIN TOWERS FAN FICTION HAD ME LITERALLY CRYING. THAT IS SO FOUL.

This reminds me of that seminar that my university was offering for the teachers degree students that was all about analysing an explicit, adult fanfiction about Draco and Harry. You actually got credit points for that.

I remember being in third grade and my friends, all Gryffindors, made me take the sorting quiz. I took it, got Slytherin, and they ignored me for a week.

My brother's girlfriend is a Disney Adult AND a Potterhead, and one time she forced me to take the sorting quiz. I got Hufflepuff but she insisted I was a Gryffindore because SHE was a Hufflepuff and we're too different to be in the same house. She was so mad at me for getting Hufflepuff she didn't talk to me for two full days. She was 31 at the time.

this is such a great potterhead commentary, the fact that you included a specific group of potterheads who are against jk rowling thats actually not cringey is so great. i feel like other douchey commentary youtubers would just fully make fun of potterheads but u included something positive in this

The fact that I could've run into Kurtis on Habbo Hotel Harry Potter RP rooms is insane.

“Snape seems to be particularly useful during burglaries” is a straight up mad sentence

I love this but there is no way you put WRITING FANFICTION on a lower level than naming your child Lucius Malfoy 😭😭😭

''if i was an 11 yr old magic boy'' is my new favourite phrase

The Carl Boom Boom portion absolutely fucking killed me. 💀

I can’t imagine even the biggest fan of Harry Potter naming their kid after Newt Scamander’s assistant, Bunty. You might as well name them Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way because these characters are equally relevant to the canon

I can’t believe Kurtis made a section talking about Harry Potter fan fiction without mentioning the master piece that is my immortal

As someone who works at universal the most toxic potterheads are the actors in the theme park 👀

didnt know kurtis would talk about my fucking favorite peice of fanfiction in the world, so when he said all the young dudes i had to do a double take i was so excited

Maybe I’m biased as a former fanfic writer, but writing/reading fanfiction feels more like a level 1 activity. It was pretty much the first thing I’d do when I liked a piece of media 😅

Kurtis, buddy, there is no way reading all 7 books is on the same level as getting a Harry Potter tattoo or being on a Quidditch team. So many people read all those books 😅

man it's been a while since i've watched kurt and i forgot how genuinely interesting the videos are. my attention span is next to zero but i literally just sat here for forty minutes straight doing absolutely nothing but watching this video man you gotta be using some potterhead magic i swear

BRO THE SIRIUS THING KEEPS GETTING ME 😭

genuinely believed he was going to be talking about potheads

If you like a fictional story, you don't have to give it up when you get older--but it becomes problematic when you stop accepting the real world because you're stuck in a fantasy world.

Ngl I feel like if Percy Jackson was as successful movie-wise, it would be the exact same, there really is no difference lmao

As a fanfic writer (not for the hp community, I would never), we definitely don’t deserve to be below *naming* your kid Lucious Malfoy 💀

I can't believe we had a Harry Potter iceberg mentioning fanfiction WITHOUT talking about My Immortal. A classic masterpiece smh

The video of Draco taking FIVE YEARS to be able to hold his girlfriend's hand absolutely killed me 🤣

25:49 imagine using this logic for anything else. “So we’ve been telling our child since she was 3 that she’s immortal to teach her not to take everything at face value. How could we have known she would try to jump off a roof”

Petition for kurtis to do a deep dive into swifties

Pretty disappointed that the vibrating broom toy didn’t have its own iceberg level ☹️

A near 50 minute vid from Kurtis talking about Harry Potter is something I never knew was absolutely needed in my life

I don’t believe in shifting, but I love lucid dreaming and setting that dream in a certain universe, that’s really fun. I love how you separated all the weird fanfics from atyd

fun fact, slytherin traits were basically all traits present in other houses just with synonyms that specifically had a negative connotation. These 11 year olds were all piled into a house that was filled with other kids from toxic households, told their best traits were these negative things, treated like the literal scum by other student's and teachers alike while they marinated in outdated mindsets shared by a bunch of not good people. And then we were supposed to believe that these kids CHOSE to side with the dark lord. Hats off to JKR honestly for legit convincing people that 11 years olds were inherently bad people.

The cutting to Sirius' face every time had me dying 💀

Fanfictions should be much higher on the iceberg, they're really not weird, there are fanfictions out there that are far better than the actual books. Even My Immortal is a masterpiece in its own right 😂

This isn't even the worse. There are fanfictions on Wattpad about the characters buying you and full on bdsm thingy like damn😭

Im sorry "harry potter and the tumbling towers" is genuinely funny 😭💀

Ash seems so sweet. There's a huge difference between Potterheads who are kind genuine people engaged in a world they love, and...well...Snapewives.

On a college campus I visited, they boasted having a Quidditch team and at one point having a Snitch that could do parkour, which allowed that person to literally climb buildings around campus to avoid the Seekers. If that tale was true, probably the best Snitch player to exist.

every time i go to make fun of potterheads i remember when i was 13 and genuinely believed i was a demigod and that i needed to go to camp half blood and i shut up

alternatively, the breakdancer brings me enough joy to battle a dementor

personally i think having read the books multiple times and writing/reading fanfiction is like. the top of the iceberg; reading the books once should NOT be on the same level as playing irl quidditch kurtis pls😭

Crying after being sorted into Hufflepuff is Hufflepuff behavior

"people online think draco malfoy is hot" okay, that's not THAT weird... "...including in the parts of the movies where the actor that plays him is like, 13-17..." oh. Oh. OH.

I was so expecting him to pull out my immortal

I always saw it that Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw were opposites because they were like practical/logical vs emotional/empathetic

Honestly I think making a thirst trap of an actor who was actually 13-17 at that time is a much larger issue than thirsting over the underage character

i'm late to this video i know and i know no one is going to see this but the bit at 26:20 reminded me of a line from one of kurtis's minecraft videos from like two-ish years ago; i don't remember which video but i do have a screen recording where he says, and i quote, "this is like plato's allegory of the cave, but instead of people in a cave it's sort of a panda in my house" and it's one of my favorite lines ever and i doubt anyone else remembers it but i think of it all the time. just had to get that out there

Nah dude harry potter fanfiction is like level 1-2 any series ever will have fanfiction *its an unstoppable force*

No shot that fanfiction is weirder than playing quidditch on a college team and trying to adopt Tom Felton 🤣

Writing fanfiction can be cringe and weird but a lot of it is just young people expressing themselves creatively and learning writing skills, definitely not lower than naming a child after a fictional character

I remember looking up heartbeat sounds on RU-vid and the comments under all the videos (ASMR-esque videos of someone's heartbeat) were full of people from the Shifting community saying they used the audio to shift into the Harry Potter world. Granted, most commenters said they slept with a hard pillow and the heartbeat sound gave them the impression that the pillow was the chest of their favorite character and they were cuddling with them in their sleep (which ngl is kinda sad but I can't say I haven't done something similar). But there were some saying they straight up woke in one of the Hogwarts dormitories and they walked around the room, doing stuff 💀

When you mentioned fanfiction I was fully expecting a section on my immortal

Kurtis mispronouncing Massachusetts is such a Canadian thing to do.

The fact that Kurtis saw that grown woman crying in Harry Potter land, and his initial emotion was empathy and not cringe/disgust, means I’m a worse person than I thought.

YES ALL THE YOUNG DUDES REPRESENTATION!!!! I LOVE YOU KURTISSS

I did not expect troto to be on this but I was pleasantly surprsied especially if being ash omg

the four houses: good, bad, smart and fuckin *stupid*

You should do a deep dive into the marauders fandom, it’s so interesting how they’ve created a whole fandom based on almost nothing and also how separated it is from the Harry Potter fandom

These guys make me feel like I’m just not living life. I have favorite things, but the closest I have ever gotten to Potterhead obsession was having 40 transformers in my room and dressing up as Ben 10 for a few school events.

4:02 The Zelda boss music with JKR face made me spit out of my coffee HAHAHAHA

i played quiddich at my middle school! they made me be the golden snitch, cause i was pretty small. instead of having to get anything off me, i counted as the entire golden snitch, so other students had to full body tackle me. so imagine you're a principal at a middle school, and you go into the yard at reeces. and one of your teachers is watching casually as a group of nerds tackle a small disabled child over and over again with broomsticks between their legs

I was heartbroken that Kurtis didn’t cover My Immortal but he redeemed himself by covering the Snapewives

wild to see fanfic so far down the iceberg, that should be like tier 2

There's this book called HP and the Methods of Rationality, which is a complete book on its own, and there, the author says that each house represents an ideal, not a reality. So Griffindors are wannabe heroes and they idealize courage. The serpents instead idiolize power and cunningness, that's why all dark wizards are from Slytherin. A good commentary, I'd say...

It was a long, hard journey to become the best snitch, but the recognition really makes it worthwhile.

Kurtis please do the Twilight fandom next. I will literally pass away when you do your deep dive and find out there’s a huge portion of them who call themselves Rats 😂😂😂

I’d place writing and reading fanfiction on the second level. Being a part of a community who reads fanfiction I’ve never encountered anyone who thinks the world of Harry Potter is real. It’s more of a way to experience the characters you know in different scenarios and a lot of them are really well written as well. But overall I’d say I’m level two. I even founded my high school’s quidditch team. We even participated in the national cup one year, but we only practiced once beforehand and got a shared last place.

I really hope that story is fake. “Stop telling us we’re abusing our child, we already know. It’s gonna be fine, they’ll just be traumatized for life and never trust anyone or anything around them.” is as wild as it gets.

I can't believe Kurtis brought up Harry Potter fanfics without mentioning Cassandra Clare's messed up Harry Potter fanficton, which, after a number of alterations, LITERALLY became the mortal instruments😭😭

writing fanfic isn't even that bad. as long as you grow out of using over used corny tropes, its fun and harmless.

i dont know why but "carl boom boom" sent me into tears

9:36 nah that dance break puts me in tears every time LMAO.

That kid that's been lied to for years by their parents about magic being real is gonna need some big therapy in a few years

I remember when I was a kid, I was the BIGGEST potterhead to exist. I read the books like million times a year, watch the movies whenever they were on TV and I genually bellived Hogwarts was real and I was hoping I would get the letter on my 11th birthday. And when I finally turned 11, instead of the letter I got suicidal thoughts

8:42 dont mind me just timestamping one of the funniest moments ive ever watched in a youtube video

I disagree on fanfic and damn bro your hair is looking so good this video

the Sirius jumpscare every time kurt says the word “serious” is so off putting i love it

kurtis being sorted into hufflepuff makes so much sense 😭

I'd totally watch more deep dives in to other fandoms!

We need an iceberg like this but for Star Wars. That shit would be insane. So many Disney adults are now shifting to star wars because of the sequels.

For all the things that’s unhinged about the HP fandom, the most well written pieces of fiction I’ve ever read were Harry Potter fan fiction.

JK Rowling can hate trans people all she wants, but jokes on her, the polyjuice potion was lowkey my introduction to being trans. When I was young, I was like "damn so I could be a girl?! Sweet!!" JK truly played herself

my dad once took my older sister to a massive harry potter book release in like 2007. the book was released at like midnight and it included a public reading of the first couple chapters, and the convention center where it was held allowed people to sleepover in their sleeping bags (which my sister forced my dad to do as well). my dad came back from the event scarred for life, because apparently my sister was one of the only children out of the couple hundred people there. the rest were adults and my dad felt so uncomfortable lmao.

this is so interesting!! rlly enjoy ur vids

uh, putting fanfiction writing in the same tier as genuinely believing harry potter is real is fucking wild

It’s so weird seeing Kurtis slowly learning more about fandom culture.

It we are counting the cursed child, then there are technically 8 books. That person may need a tattoo change after all.