32 villains enter, 1 VILLAIN LEAVES. Join us as we talk, argue, and plead our cases in a 32 villain bracket with only 1 coming out on top. Friendships will be tested, patience tried, pandemonium!... Or maybe you'll have a good time, who knows? We also discuss all things online villain discourse and we have some choice words for twitter. Timestamps:…

C/W: This episode contains mentions of pedophilia and CSEM ENTER: Digital Society. The year is 2014. The alt right is rising online with mass harassment movements like gamergate, reactionary "cancel culture" is finding its way into left wing spaces on college campuses, and the suicide rate among teens is skyrocketing. Lady V and Katie close out a 3…

C/W This episode contains mentions of self-harm from 41:15 to 42:09 Panic!In The Fandom. The glory days of web 1.0 have ended and the nazis and puritans have arrived in full force. Lady V and Katie continue to explore the brief history of fandom from the founding of YouTube in 2005 up until 2013. We answer the question: where DID current political …

In our second podcast series, Lady V and Katie cover the (brief) history of online fandom and how it got to where it is today. In this episode, we travel back to Web 1.0 when websites looked like a PowerPoint deck, YouTube was Albino Blacksheep, Fortnite was RuneScape, Anne Rice didn't like your fanfiction, and 4chan was still an anime forum. We al…

In this finale of our three part series on alt-right radicalization in fandom spaces (and guys, its a long one), Katie and Lady V explain how fake narratives online can spread as truth and touch upon numerous harassment campaigns against creatives at Lucasfilm. We also take time to humorously review EVERYTHING that happened after we kick-started th…

Welcome to the Math Episode. Katie monologues her social media analysis (spoiler alert: The Last Jedi wasn't actually "polarizing."). She also gets real with her past brush with radicalization in online fandom (no, not Star Wars) and Lady V did not figure Muse in her 2021 bingo card. Timestamps: 00:00:00 - 00:03:15: Intro 00:03:16 - 00:24:47: React…

In this 2-part series, Katie and Lady V take a deep dive into alt right radicalization in Star Wars fandom. In Part 1, Lady V walks us through the timeline of conservative outrage culture from Rush Limbaugh to Steve Bannon. We discuss the harrowing impact of Gamergate, Breitbart News, and Cambridge Analytica on the so-called "21st century culture w…

Katie and Lady V discuss the troubling impact of social media on content creation, Ben Shapiro's latest grift, and why do we constantly hear the phrase "Mary Sue?" Equipped with over 250k data points, we answer once and for all: Do people ACTUALLY use "Gary Stu" to describe male characters or is it all just sexism? Check out full show notes, data v…

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