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/

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Rachel started writing about stan culture and ended here:

"At the risk of being grandiose, I think this is the task before us as humans: we've spent the past two decades with unfiltered access to human thought, and we are instinctively pulling back. But how do we find that middle ground: the sweet spot between me and thee?"

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