People's nature is to friend people with the same Interests and passions. That's the core of Internet fandoms, where groups of people get together to cheer and support their real-life or fictional heroes. From the Swifties to Harry Potter, from the Pokemons to politicians, people get creative ways to express their love. But there is a dark side to fandoms, too.

#fandoms #internetGroups #InternetCultures #radicalization #extremism

https://negativepid.blog/internet-fandoms-from-fun-to-radicalization/
https://negativepid.blog/internet-fandoms-from-fun-to-radicalization/

Me gustaría saber, gente del fedi hispano, ustedes son activos o participes de algún fandom?

El mio actualmente es #deltarune y soy autor de fanfiction centrado en #spamton

Estuve muchos años el anime de pokemon #anipoke pero salí corriendo de ahí por acosos :/

Listen sus fandoms y ayuden dando boost para que llegue a varios rincones y podamos ver más o menos cuantos fandoms puede haber activos en el fedi.

#fandom #fandoms

$1.1M for a search engine specifically for fandoms? Lore is here to make those internet rabbit holes even deeper for the truly obsessed. Finally, your niche interests get their own portal.

What's the most obscure topic you've ever deep-dived into online? #TechNews #Fandoms #Search #Startups #Funding
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/03/a-new-search-engine-raises-1-1m-to-let-obsessive-fans-dive-down-internet-rabbit-holes/

Alright, just for fun, and because I'm looking for ideas to refresh my feed, everyone please give me 1 favorite book, cartoon, and live action TV show. I'm bound to vibe with at least one of them. Thanks. Please pass it on! I think I've got movies covered, but if you want to throw one of those in that's welcome, too. #Fandom #Fandoms

Is there a show or a book series where you regret not keeping a journal while you read/watched it for the first time, because of all the thoughts and feelings you had you felt like a different person afterwards? For me that was DS9. #StarTrek #Fandoms #Writing

Every now and then I like to revisit this site just to look around. I'm on the letter t because I wanted to see if they had any for TMNT. #Tea #Fandoms

https://www.adagio.com/signature_blend/fandoms.html?letter=T

Internet fandoms are great communities for sharing and having fun. But when do they stop being a hobby and start becoming an obsession? From Star Trek cons to the Swifties, places of creativity and cultural innovation can evolve into unhealthy parasocial relationships with mob-like behaviours and radicalization.

https://negativepid.blog/internet-fandoms-from-fun-to-radicalization/

#fandoms #stanCulture #radicalization #onlineBehaviour #onlineCommunities #psychology #cyberPsychology #toxic

Library Bards – BARDCORE
#Comedy #Nerd #NerdRock #fandom #fandoms #filk #geekmusic #geekpop #nerdcore #nerdpop #parody #LosAngeles
CC BY-NC (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial) #ccmusic
https://librarybards.bandcamp.com/album/bardcore

Finally Finished the PDF for the UK Online Safety act and why Fandoms like the Thomas The Tank Engine one should join the Fedverse.

Give it a read, love little bits of feedback and feel free to share this just give me credit where you can.

https://www.canva.com/design/DAGuTUqsh_g/i7ZOqH2crDqa9BCkVISncQ/view?utm_content=DAGuTUqsh_g&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=uniquelinks&utlId=h00b725e523

#TTTE #ThomasTheTankEngine #Fandom #Fandoms #OnlineSafetyAct #UKGov #UKOnlineSafetyAct #IDVerify #Fediverse #SelfHosting

The Softer Side of Dark Souls Fandom

In 2011, FromSoftware released its action RPG Dark Souls for PlayStation 3. The game was met with overwhelming confusion and dismay. Its 2009 predecessor Demon’s Souls faced much the same reception. Like Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls is punishing, perplexing, and unapologetically morbid. It’s an understatement to s

https://sidequest.zone/2025/07/14/dark-souls-fandom/

#Essays #VideoGames #Bloodborne #DarkSouls #EldenRing #Fandoms #FromSoftware #LGBTQ

'There’s a new formula for punishing women who speak out about abuse by high-profile figures, and it usually goes like this: woman alleges abuse, woman seeks recourse through the justice system, woman’s accusation is made public – and then a tidal wave of fans of her abuser come together to help deny the abuse, attack her credibility and reverse the roles of victim and offender.

Link below:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/22/famous-men-fandoms

#Fandoms #Misogyny #Manosphere #Patriarchy #GenderBasedViolence #Abuse #Darvo

Un momento de confesión o debilidad.

Me tocó una época rara de internet. Nunca fui parte de comunidades grandes. A mí no me crío Tumblr. Siempre fui de foros, de sitios chiquitos. Y en esos círculos se apreciaba mucho el oneshot bien escrito. Te daba cierto status saber escribir una obra bien condensada y con recursos narrativos bien aprovechados que un walltext sin pies ni cabeza.

Mis ex colegas posteriores no lo veían así y me volví el apestado porque era el único del grupo que no tenía un longfic a sus espaldas. "Te gusta lo fácil" decían.

Ahora tengo una obra terminada. No para callar bocas pero al menos creo que ya nadie va a tener los huevos de cuestionar mi calidad como autor por no tener cierto tipo de trabajos.

Lehigh University: Robert Lichtman Science Fiction Fanzine Collection. “Lehigh Libraries Special Collections announces an exciting new exhibit opening in January 2025. Recently, the Libraries acquired the Robert Lichtman Science Fiction Fanzine Collection amounting to over 15,000 items. This extensive collection spans nearly a century, dating from the late 1930s through 2022, and features […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/04/lehigh-university-robert-lichtman-science-fiction-fanzine-collection/