8FOLD/ACRA: Nonfiction # 5, "Justice for Julie Ann"

[Scott Eiler]

On 5/11/2015 8:19 PM, Andrew Perron wrote:

> I've seen a lot of stories where the fandom, or even just the culture,
> around people who work outside the entertainment industry are used as
> stand-ins for real-life fandoms of fictional works, and it never quite
> feels like those systems would work in the same ways. But that's not
> quite what's happened here - indeed, it's the opposite. Transplanting
> Gamergate and other similar systems of oppression into the systems of a
> larger sphere worked well - too well; it felt like something that
> existed within those systems, of conservative blogging and xenophobic
> paranoia, of political manipulation and cultural othering, divorcing
> itself from the big-fish-in-a-small-pond phenomenon that drives fan
> insularity.
>
> Or so it felt to me.

heh, I'm not exposed to gamers very much any more.  But I still hear all 
the right wing conspiracy theories, like how Obama's about to invade 
Texas.  So I read this as a Hillary Clinton / Benghazi thing.

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(signed) Scott Eiler  8{D> -------- http://www.eilertech.com/ ---------

When you *are* the leader... whatever goes wrong... whether you did it
or not... *you* are held responsible. - Barack Obama

I know. - Archie Andrews

- from Archie #617, March 2011, scripted by Alex Simmons.