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ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>NPR: Fandom rules social media’s cultural landscape in 2024. “The biggest trend in culture on social media in 2024 can be summed up with one word: Fans. Major broadcasting networks and mainstream media, and in more recent years streaming companies, have had near-total control over entertainment habits. But now it’s the fans who are making an outsize impact on what Americans listen to, play, […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2024/12/09/npr-fandom-rules-social-medias-cultural-landscape-in-2024/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2024/12/09/npr-fandom-rules-social-medias-cultural-landscape-in-2024/</a></p>
Curious Loth-cat<p>"Fandom is sometimes a grotesque blight that poisons the society surrounding it with its mean-spirited obsessions and ridiculous, unearned sense of entitlement."</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/26/fandom-has-toxified-the-world-watchmen-author-alan-moore-on-superheroes-comicsgate-and-trump" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/books/2024/oct</span><span class="invisible">/26/fandom-has-toxified-the-world-watchmen-author-alan-moore-on-superheroes-comicsgate-and-trump</span></a></p><p>Alan Moore's pronouncement on toxic fandom is spot on. I've long felt that stan culture is unhealthy.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fandom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fandom</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ToxicFandom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ToxicFandom</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PopCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PopCulture</span></a></p>
Plastic Model Robot<p>I really dislike modern <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/StarTrek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StarTrek</span></a> fandom. You HAVE to love the modern series or you're pilloried and shouted down. </p><p>(I personally don't like them, but if other people do, knock yourself out.)</p><p>It's enough to make me leave the fandom behind, just as I have with many others before.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/toxicfandom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>toxicfandom</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scifi</span></a></p>
Justin 🔶🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️<p>Shocked by the rhetoric of a panel of alleged <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/DoctorWho" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DoctorWho</span></a> fans, during this live broadcast on YouTube by The Tardis Zone.</p><p>To get the full effect, click on the archived "Live Chat" and read along while listening. The panel also gets worse as they go along.</p><p>Homophobia. Racism. Ableism. Transphobia.</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/DrWho" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DrWho</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/ToxicFandom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ToxicFandom</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/TranswomenAreWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TranswomenAreWomen</span></a></p><p>Watch "The Tardis Zone Talks Special - Is RTD Doubling Down On Timeless Children Or Is A Retcon Incoming" on YouTube</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/Ky-TkBn08EQ?feature=share" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/live/Ky-TkBn08EQ?f</span><span class="invisible">eature=share</span></a></p>
Gigi 🍄‍🟫<p>Grumpickle 🧵 pt 2</p><p>The link, pasted again, is the first tweet that has both of our accounts listed in it. If you scroll up you can see the Dee Snider comment and the missing tweet where Grumpickle tried to show his devotion to Mango.</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/NHC_Gigi/status/1527738492150751237?t=MWMcQ0RsT2cA3fAnUWrqKA&amp;s=19" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">twitter.com/NHC_Gigi/status/15</span><span class="invisible">27738492150751237?t=MWMcQ0RsT2cA3fAnUWrqKA&amp;s=19</span></a></p><p>It might get a little bit confusing because there are two assholes in the thread who've managed to get themselves suspended from Twitter, and amazingly, I'M NOT ONE OF THEM! (pic 1.)</p><p>(I have been trying.)</p><p>Twitter being what it is, you can still tell who I was replying to, and IN NOT A SINGLE ONE of the 10 tweets that contain both of our usernames, was that person: Grumpickle. (pics 2&amp;3.)</p><p>Anyhoo, Grumpickle developed a grudge and nursed it carefully until he was put together with Staph (pic 4.), an EXTRAORDINARILY not-racist person utterly incapable of distinguishing between Black women, who I actually HAD engaged with -- when she decided she needed to explain some things to the terrible pickaninnies criticizing her She-ro.</p><p>[NOTE TO MODERATOR: I am one of said pickaninnies.]</p><p>Then, in the magical way dust bunnies collect, they were matched with another monomaniacal personality, TheFluFighters, and this formed the basis of Caryma's ideal team of flying monkeys, or as they were known in this iteration: Flu's Clues. </p><p>But this thread is about Grumpickle in particular, and it will continue as I have time.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CarymaNgo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CarymaNgo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProxyViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProxyViolence</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ToxicFandom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ToxicFandom</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FuckShitlibs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FuckShitlibs</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antiblackness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antiblackness</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AlertaAlertaAntifascista" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlertaAlertaAntifascista</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FlyingMonkeys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FlyingMonkeys</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NarcissisticAbuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NarcissisticAbuse</span></a></p>
Gigi 🍄‍🟫<p>This is Grumpickle (pic. 1).<br>He hates me, which is weird because we've never actually spoken to each other.</p><p>I say "Grumpickle" because he's on his third Twitter account. (He keeps getting them suspended for bad behaviour, but that doesn't stop him.)</p><p>When this saga started, his account name was OldManGrumpee, and now it's ThePickledPleb. Grump...ickle.</p><p>Anyway, once upon a time Grumpickle had this idea that there could be an awesome collaboration between Cary Mango and Dee Snider. It was unlikely, but it was a dream. (pic 2.)</p><p>A dream that got dashed by dastardly darkies. (pic 3.)</p><p>You can find the remnants of the original thread here:<br><a href="https://twitter.com/NHC_Gigi/status/1527738492150751237?t=MWMcQ0RsT2cA3fAnUWrqKA&amp;s=19" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">twitter.com/NHC_Gigi/status/15</span><span class="invisible">27738492150751237?t=MWMcQ0RsT2cA3fAnUWrqKA&amp;s=19</span></a></p><p>[Wow. I just went to get a screenshot from where he explains what the missing tweets were about, and I discovered that he still had this weird fantasy as late as November. (pic 4.)]</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CarymaNgo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CarymaNgo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProxyViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProxyViolence</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ToxicFandom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ToxicFandom</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FuckShitlibs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FuckShitlibs</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antiblackness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antiblackness</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AlertaAlertaAntifascista" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlertaAlertaAntifascista</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FlyingMonkeys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FlyingMonkeys</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NarcissisticAbuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NarcissisticAbuse</span></a></p>
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