...First, the Introduction articulates the value of the framing as “Fandom Is Ugly.” Then, the chapter takes up two early 2020s moments in U.S. public culture, one very ugly but less legible as fannish, and one very fannish but whose ugliness is less overt, to trace out some of the contours of what...

...Ugly fandom is fans who are willing to destroy what they love when it doesn’t go the way they want, like trying to get a show cancelled because their favorite character was killed or responding to fan fiction they don’t like by attacking the author or the hosting website. Ugly fandom is fans who...

... into something that can feel personal. Part I explores music as a means of communication and as a commodity, drawing out the tension between its social and commercial values. Part II looks at audiences, showing how they developed fandoms in the 20^th century, how those fandoms came online...

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...: the subcultural art form of fans making music video, or vidding. The chapter uses the term “critical fandom” to center the affective and political temporalities of creative fan works that reimagine the racialized and gendered economies of digital media production and consumption. It analyzes several fan videos...

...Beginning with the story of the advent of online crowdfunding, this chapter shows how audiences organized into participatory fandoms during the twentieth century. It defines fandom and shows its tensions between anticapitalism and consumerism. It traces the evolution of online fandom, beginning...

.... Despite being touched by copyright law, media fandom is low-IP and generally governed by the norms of its community. Their concepts of right and wrong, often subject to debate, are increasingly built into the architecture of online platforms. And those platforms, in turn, exert a significant impact...

...This chapter examines the late 2010s Comcisgate movement opposing diversity in comics for its constructs of comics, the industry, and fandom. Comicsgate members oppose those they think are fans the wrong way and those who critique comics with respect to social justice. They argue fans...

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