• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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    12 days ago

    Nah. Tons of merchandising, films, publishing etc.

    Those Quidditch brooms and plastic wands don’t assemble themselves in a sweatshop.

    Think more like if some self hosted webnovel had the same success somehow. Not particularly likely, but hypothetically.

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      Why do the merchandise sales not count? Are they not a product of her creative writing? Many webnovelists sell merch. One of my favourite webnovelists semi-recently hired an editor, would that disqualify them?

      I’m a little confused on how you are defining the conditions. If the artist can only count their personal contributions than I don’t think it is possible in any sense. No person no matter how hard working or talented can personally generate a billion in profit.