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Infighting and backlash among “Heated Rivalry” fans is most pronounced on X—fueled in part by censorship-driven migration from platforms like Tumblr.

Enthusiasm can be a productive force for good, but our culture has rapidly become a fan-based landscape that the rest of us are merely living in About a decade ago, I ventured my opinion that the ...

An article a few weeks ago in Salon was ominously titled “Let’s all stop ignoring The Fandom Menace. It’s real, and it’s winning.” The article contends that toxic factions have become a built-in ...

There is no greater cultural crime a young girl can commit than loving pop music without apology. Forever marginalized as the screaming, crying Beatlemaniac, Directioner, or Swiftie, teen girl fandom ...

This blog has weighed in before on the popularity of Heated Rivalry, the runaway hit series about Shane and Ilya, professional hockey players turned lovers, and why so many viewers are passionate fans ...