Fans and the People Who Love Them
I was confronted by something kind of random today. My co-worker, Matt, drew me into a conversation about Fandom. It was he who brought it up, which simply astounded me. He started the conversation by saying, "Hey, Jen. I think you should write a book about fandom." This is an idea that I've tossled about with for a while, but at the moment I'
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Fandom is just there for our entertainment. To let ourselves get lost in other world, another place, while staying exactly where we are.
Music, TV, Movies, all of it. Those people are real people. What we obsess about it just their jobs.
It'd be like, everybody at work obsessing over one of our supervisors because they all know his name. "OMG IT'S JEFF! I LOVE HIM SO MUCH. Sign my shirt!" xD He's just doing his job...the whole workplace knows who he is, he's considered famous and suddenly everybody loves him. Except for those who like Charmaine better as a supervisor. Then you get conflict, shippers, slashers, fandom wank and overall insanity over two people just doing their jobs.
That's my real life comparison.
In the end...fandom is life and those that obsess over it (in a not creepy way) are fun and great and I love them and they love their fandoms.
I love obsessing over my fandoms, buying stuff for them, being overall fangirlly for them. But in the end, these are just real people, getting paid lots of money, to have people love them. And sometimes enjoying their jobs.
I'd never spend thousands of dollars for fandom. That's insane. But you know, people who do, it's what makes them happy. To each their own.
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