Hard not to believe that in our efforts to cordon off, to neatly define and index, we are inevitably serving reactionary movements the means to our censorship and persecution in a silver platter

I dunno, I don't think I'm alone in my preference for well-rounded people with a variety of interests and knowledge over glorified marketing accounts (definitionally shallow, relentlessly insular, cynically algorithmic) for ANY given work of art

They cannot get into new things without the fear of alienating their followers. "I'm not sure you guys care about this, so I will shut up now about Y and go back to X posting" is a tweet I've read so many times and it's 100% the result of fandom culture

They genuinely treat it like a job or something, it's pretty insane

The truth behind this behavior is probably somewhere between those two, but it is really not conducive to either. People out there are genuinely worried about stopping to post consistently about X piece of media because their mutuals followed them because of that lmao

Accounts run by people who very earnestly enjoy the series, but also people who are laboriously posting content about it every day? At best, with the intention of building a community; at worst, with the intention of using their favorite show to get social media attention

Stuff that has no appeal to me, that shares none of the qualities I enjoy in the show, and worst of all, stuff that makes me feel patronized, as if I needed a constant supply of Twin Peaks content at any cost, no matter how inane or redundant

Here's an example: flaws and all, I really like Twin Peaks. But if I ever so much as read a post mentioning it, twitter's hypersensitive algorithm will drown my timeline in the same fan accounts posting repetitive, low-hanging fruit about the show

Maybe I'm just bitter because of the unavoidable prevalence of fandom online. I mean, it has become very clear to me that social media is designed to heavily encourage these dynamics to the detriment of culturally richer environments

"You can only evaluate a work of art in direct reference to what the author was aiming to do" I'm so sorry W. K. Wimsatt please honey let me in I will never cheat again I swear

Exactly lmao

The title of the essay is "The Naked Babe and the Cloak of Manliness"