The creator of malfoid stated himself that she was meant to make people desire love.
What spawned from this was a massive trend that escaped the deeper layers of the Internet producing art, stories, music and animations for her and her relationship with Harry.
She was built on a fandom’s love for family and for the franchise.
But because the movement was based off a story with a “transphobic” author, the right-wing effortlessly claimed the trend, and the left couldn’t make art on it for days since they were busy hating.
When they started churning out art, it was literally in opposition to the group that embodied the trend.
They renamed it to galfoy because they hated the name Malfoid. They drew her without her personality because they inserted their hateful selves into the character. They went nowhere beyond art, and half of it wasn’t very good, because in the end their only goal was to express their hate in artistic form as protest.
“You have no real friends and will die alone”
“Magic isn’t real chudcel, just like your waifu”
“Sorry chud, America yearns for woke now”
Does this sound like whimsical hopefulness?
I’d think that whimsical hopefulness would represent the side that wrote love stories about a villian redeemed with help from a loving protagonist, and that their love defeated the main villian.
That’s just me tho.