‘Fandom has toxified the world’: Watchmen author Alan Moore on superheroes, Comicsgate and Trump
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‘Fandom has toxified the world’: Watchmen author Alan Moore on superheroes, Comicsgate and Trump
closed net cultures such as One Direction fandom do produce a lot of creative work, but it’s basically like the inside jokes you come up with at summer camp rather than innovations that will diffuse into the mainstream.
A 2023 Look-back: the internet dies, etc.
Modern celebrity fandom encourages fans to look for the narrative they want to see. Little clues are everywhere, and new source material is never-ending. If fandom has become more conspiratorial—and I think it has—that must be due, in part, to the way that social media has created immediate incentives for amateur sleuthing.
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