The Villain Battle Royal!!!!
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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?
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The Wild (Online) West Part 3: 2014 to Present
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C/W Pedophilia/CSEM
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The Wild (Online) West Part 2: 2005 to 2013
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C/W This episode contains mentions of self-harm from 41:15 to 42:09.
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The Wild (Online) West Part 1: 1995 to 2005
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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 also discuss the Yahoo! Answers shut down and how, no, George Lucas doesn't get enough appreciation, actually.
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In Plain Sight Part 3: Have We Learned from Gamergate?
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In this finale of our three part series on radicalization in Star Wars fandom, Katie and Lady V explain how fake narratives online can spread as truth (00:04:10) and touch upon numerous harassment campaigns against creatives at Lucasfilm (00:28:42).
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In Plain Sight Part 2: You Are Not Immune to Propaganda
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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.
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In Plain Sight Part 1: Industry of Outrage, Gamergate, and #BoycottStarWarsVII
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In this 2-part series, Katie and Lady V take a deep dive into alt right radicalization in Star Wars fandom.
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Math Just Says You're Misogynistic, Jared
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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?
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Trailer
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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-part series on the brief history of online fandom with a look at the internet from 2014 until now where we cover right-wing PsyOps, the Tumblr NSFW ban, the death of nuance, and growing concerns surrounding online engagement and mental health.
Timestamps:
Ebay's NSFW ban: 4m 18s
YouTube and "Free Speech:" 12m 55s
MAPs: 29m 0s
Tumblr NSFW Ban Part 1: 39m 49s
"Cancel Culture" on College Campuses: 42m 58s
Tumblr NSFW Ban Part II: 1 hr 11m 5s
Future of Fandom: 1 hr 23m 49s
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