Next up: "Toxicity in Fandom", with Helen Gould, Simone Brunzell, Katherine Cross, and Mia Violet.
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White male nerds suffer recurring amnesia, which is why we're still having arguments about weather Star Trek should be "diverse" and "political", or Wonder Woman "getting too feminist".
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General agreement that Marvel's diverse comics are mostly tokenism - the titles get publicity but little support.
KC: What do you do, as a business, when you've (rightly or wrongly) identified your most important customers as the most toxic fans? Publishers and creators are afraid to say no to them.
KC: Fan culture depends on emotional investment. So does brand-based marketing. There's a toxic synergy when companies market to fans. Toxicity begins with over-investment and the inability to separate yourself from the product.
(Discussion of feminised fan spaces - tumblr antishippers is the example - where toxicity is still based on over-investment but takes a different form. Weaponisation of progressive readings/critiques as a source of power, in a way that echoes infighting in progressive politics.)
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