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[ SECRET POST #4315 ]

⌈ Secret Post #4315 ⌋

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I'm not sure I agree. Fandom is more out there than it used to be, sure. But there are some aspects of it that are still very much separate. Excitedly geeking out over the latest Game of Thrones episode is mainstream. Admitting you spent the weekend writing the 14th chapter of your epic Jaime/Brienne/Tormund OT3 is not mainstream. It's still very much hidden to most people.

Okay. You can say that about anything. Football is mainstream but spending hours watching replays of old football games is not.

Well... sure? I'm not sure how your example disproves the idea that there's a mainstream tip of the fandom iceberg, but a lot of fandom that isn't mainstream.

But I think most people would say that football is mainstream in America even if most people aren't watching All-22 footage.

Sure. I still don't think it's a great analogy for fandom and whether or not it's mainstream. Maybe because the larger part of football (as a fandom) is watching it and... that's it. There's a lot more to fandom than watching TV/movies.

Maybe because the larger part of football (as a fandom) is watching it and... that's it.

IDK how true this actually is

gambling, fantasy, sports media and talk shows, etc

I'm aware those things exist, but I'm not convinced they make up the larger part of the football fandom. I think gambling on football games and fantasy leagues are comparable to buying merch and going to conventions. Most people who would call themselves football fans don't do that, likewise most people who call themselves fans of [TV show] don't do that.

In my office, about half my coworkers are in a casual fantasy football league. Some of them are in more than one. Few of them are big bucks, like most are $20-$50 buy-ins. Everyone I know is aware of leagues and wouldn't bat an eye if you said you participated in one.

You're absolutely right tbh

I'm not saying it's mainstream, but I think it's part of a continuum with things that are mainstream. The existence of fanfic is more well-known, the idea of shipping is familiar to more people and is recognizable in a way that it didn't used to be, and the language of pop-culture conversation and reporting is based around fandom concepts in a way that's increasingly inescapable.

Novel-length fanfics don't have to be an everyday thing to say that people are more familiar with and think more in terms of fandom.

Yes, I think that's arguable. It's quite a long continuum, though. I also draw the distinction between "people have heard of this thing fanfiction" and "fanfiction is now mainstream".

"Fandom is mainstream" is different from "fanfiction is mainstream".

And I think that fandom being part of a continuum with totally mainstream pop culture is actually a real, significant change in its own right, compared to where fandom really used to be its own entity that was looked on as alien by most mainstream culture.

Ehhhh. Yes and no, IMO. Fandom doesn't consist solely of fanfiction, but fanfiction is a huge part of fandom. It doesn't make sense to me to claim that one is mainstream... except for this rather significant part of it, which isn't, but overall it's still mainstream.

I don't think it's a binary thing where something is either mainstream or not. It's relative.

I don't know. If I order a cheese pizza and half of it has sausage on it, is it still a cheese pizza? That's how I look at it. Parts of fandom are more mainstream now. But I wouldn't call fandom mainstream as a whole.

If I order a cheese pizza and half of it has sausage on it, is it still a cheese pizza?

No, but it's not not a cheese pizza, either, is it

Maybe we should ask a vegetarian whether or not they'd consider a pizza with half sausage a cheese pizza?

What do vegetarians know about it more than I do

For starters, they know that if they order a cheese pizza, it'd better not have any other toppings on it besides cheese, otherwise it's not a cheese pizza. :)

OK. I order a half-sausage half-cheese pizza, and then I give you a slice from the cheese half. Haven't I give you a slice of cheese pizza?

NAYRT I'll trade my popcorn for a slice of that pizza.

Arguably. But you're really going to look at the whole pizza that's 50% sausage and say, "This is a cheese pizza"?

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Speaking as someone who has dietary restrictions (not related to sausage, but for the sake of the analogy, we'll pretend), no. You've handed me a piece of sausage and cheese pizza that happens to have no sausage physically on it...probably, unless there's sausage lurking under the cheese, which is often the case with pizza toppings. If you told me what it was before handing it to me, I'd decline it, and if you tried to pass it off as something I could eat without getting sick and I found out - quite possibly by getting sick - I'd be seriously pissed.

Fanficcers have an overly inflated view of their importance within fandom compared to other activities like discussion, obsessively watching, or collecting merchandise. Sure it's a fandom tradition, but not something that the parent who buys everything Frozen or Star Wars for their kids necessarily are into.

I see people going to work on the bus with Pokemon keychains and Marvel phone cases, which is something that you just didn't do before the MCU became HUGE.

Fanfic has gone from a dirty little secret spread around via xeroxed newsletters among friends to the dirty little secret that we ask actors to read for laughs on late-night talkshows.

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