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Hi everyone!

I'm interested in the production of discourse surrounding many topics that routinely come up on here: conspiracy and what constitutes it, performing authenticity on the internet (& wtf is 'authenticity' anyway), context loss on the internet & how to deal with it, the mechanics of gossip, the spread of epistemological frameworks wrt to real person shipping over the last decade, etc. I like to think about the hows and whys of fanbase beliefs and behaviors & how they relate to broader culture.

So what I'm trying to get at is that I find all of you about six times more interesting than deppy, lol. Can't imagine I'll post terribly much, but I thought I'd drop by-- I know I personally like to know who my lurkers are.

My favorite AmazingPhil video is 'Dreams of the Future' and I really enjoyed the potato prints video. I guess I have specific tastes.

Hello and !

Do you study the production of discourse? Can you point to any scholarly research about RFP shipping or fandoms on the internet? Or have opinions/insights of your own? I'd love to hear them.

If you look through the various intro threads, you'll find that there seem to be a lot of linguists of various sorts here (not sure whether you approach discourse from linguistics or another discipline), and as I'm sure you've seen, people here are interested in all sorts of discussion, even though we all tend to be weirdly fixated on beds.

Thanks for the welcome!

I don't study discourse production in fandom professionally at the moment. My background is in ethnography & cultural transmission.

Can you point to any scholarly research about RFP shipping or fandoms on the internet? Or have opinions/insights of your own? I'd love to hear them.

It seems like every third phd student in anthropology is doing a dissertation on fandom atm, so there's A LOT. About half of it is garbage.

Closer to the linguistics side of things though, I've been mulling over an idea that the ways people choose to narrativize internet drama (esp. when it comes to #exposing others, and even more so if the person being #exposed is or was prominent in a community) mirror the structures, character archetypes, and general dramatic principles of classic greek tragedy & that's what makes it so appealing.

we all tend to be weirdly fixated on beds

I mean, I used to belong to a livejournal community that obsessed over a coffee table for years, so