FANDOMSPOTTING!

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I am so late for this announcement but I'm so excited!

Please join me, cobweb_diamond, eleveninches, cherrybina, and cthonical in exactly UM RIGHT NOW WHOOPS for the first ever live broadcast of...

Fandomspotting!Fandomspotting is a new weekly live audio chat that will be livestreaming on Youtube via Google Hangout

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[starlitshore]

Hey, Aja. Just wanted you to know that I'm listening in! I can't say anything to interact with you, but yes. I'm here!

I wanted to point out, since you're discussing the Fourth Wall and the fact that the actors/writers/etc know about fandom now, that since fandom is now a lot younger and are using so many different social media platforms that never existed before, it's impossible not to know about fandom. Everyone's seen the screaming fangirls outside radio stations, the fangirls hanging out around sets with cameras and promo prints for autographs, and the pictures spread across the internet by people on LJ/DW/Tumblr/Twitter/Facebook. We're all so interconnected, and the creators of media are also so present on social media so that they're basically forced to become almost a part of their own fandoms.

The cast of Harry Potter and Supernatural, and the members of One Direction are great examples of people who are pretty involved in their own fandoms. They know about fanfiction and other fanworks, they know about people shipping their characters or them together, they are on Twitter or Facebook, they talk about all this stuff in interviews, they attend conventions ... it's kind of incredible, and not something that's ever happened on this scale before. It's all because of social media, and (I think) this new generation's desire to be seen and heard.