To destroy yourself by being shitty.
"Sadie used to be popular, until she started sharing her shitty opinions. Now everyone hates her."
"Yeah, she really pulled a Rowling."
"Yeah, she really pulled a Rowling."
by flashwildecard September 21, 2020
1. An feeble attempt made by story or character writers to renew interest in a dying media franchise by giving a character an uninteresting or useless trait which adds little no depth to their character, and usually used as a measure to conceal their impending failure or as an effort to bring diversity to a whitewash cast of characters.
Ironically, even though sales were peak for the series during this time, in 2007, Harry Potter writer J.K. Rowling revealed the sexuality of book character Dumbledore as being gay with an ass-pull wizard, receiving some backlash readers and fans alike arguing that she gave no real depth to his character up until the storyboarding of "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindlewalde"
2. Taking definition 1 and following through with it because you managed to gain or already had enough traction to actually continue your franchise and write a full filling and deep story for such a character.
Ironically, even though sales were peak for the series during this time, in 2007, Harry Potter writer J.K. Rowling revealed the sexuality of book character Dumbledore as being gay with an ass-pull wizard, receiving some backlash readers and fans alike arguing that she gave no real depth to his character up until the storyboarding of "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindlewalde"
2. Taking definition 1 and following through with it because you managed to gain or already had enough traction to actually continue your franchise and write a full filling and deep story for such a character.
Example 1.
Guy 1: Bro, did you hear that news about Soldier from Overwatch being gay?
Guy 2: Yeah man, they pulled a fucking JK Rowling because they couldn't save their toxic community and gaming league, or nerf their fucking characters.
Guy 1: I stopped playing after they added that retarded hamster anyway.
Example 2.
Guy 1: Did you watch the last episode of Adventure Time?
Guy 2: Nah, I heard they pulled a JK Rowling by making Princess Bubblegum and Marceline lesbians.
Guy 1: They actually made a decent storyboard with their romance and the aftermath overall in the New seasons.
Guy 2: Alright, might give it a watch.
Guy 1: Bro, did you hear that news about Soldier from Overwatch being gay?
Guy 2: Yeah man, they pulled a fucking JK Rowling because they couldn't save their toxic community and gaming league, or nerf their fucking characters.
Guy 1: I stopped playing after they added that retarded hamster anyway.
Example 2.
Guy 1: Did you watch the last episode of Adventure Time?
Guy 2: Nah, I heard they pulled a JK Rowling by making Princess Bubblegum and Marceline lesbians.
Guy 1: They actually made a decent storyboard with their romance and the aftermath overall in the New seasons.
Guy 2: Alright, might give it a watch.
by Nachoooooooo January 9, 2019
You create your magnum opus early on in your potential career, however your utterly unable to ever create anything new that even comes close to the height your magnum opus has set the bar, so you settle down for a while and sit atop the pile of money that your magnum opus has made you for a few years until the percieved utter failure to live up to yourself causes your lonely ass to get bitter. So bitter in fact that you decide it's a great idea to take those feelings to social media and turn them loose on someone or something. You climb up on a soapbox you have no personal stake in climbing on top of nor any right to be on. You take this to a level in which your figurative or literal P.R. manager has a figurative heart attack and or quits and then you dig yourself into a hole so deep that the people who helped you bring your magnum opus to life in one way or another are no longer comfortable associating themselves or their work with you any longer. Not denying your part in it of course but no longer associating with you nonetheless. In the end you've succeeded in tarnishing your P.R., your livelihood, and what's left of your potential career for something you have no personal stake in, no real gain from, no real knowledge of, and no reason or right to tarnish your P.R. livelihood or your potential career over.
by YuriHimura June 12, 2021