{"id":724,"date":"2024-10-26T12:25:39","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T12:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=724"},"modified":"2024-10-26T12:25:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T12:25:39","slug":"fandom-has-toxified-the-world-alan-moore-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/26\/fandom-has-toxified-the-world-alan-moore-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFandom has toxified the world\u201d &#8211; Alan Moore (Guardian)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cAnd while the vulgar comic story was originally proffered solely to&nbsp;the working classes, soaring retail prices had precluded any audience save the more affluent; had gentrified a previously bustling and lively cultural slum neighbourhood. This boost in fandom\u2019s age and status possibly explains its current sense of privilege, its tendency to carp and cavil rather than contribute or create. I speak only of comics fandom here, but have gained the impression that this reflexive belligerence \u2013 most usually from middle-aged white male conservatives \u2013 is now a part of many fan communities. My 14-year-old grandson tells me older Pok\u00e9mon aficionados can display the same febrile disgruntlement\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2024\/oct\/26\/fandom-has-toxified-the-world-watchmen-author-alan-moore-on-superheroes-comicsgate-and-trump\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2024\/oct\/26\/fandom-has-toxified-the-world-watchmen-author-alan-moore-on-superheroes-comicsgate-and-trump<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnd while the vulgar comic story was originally proffered solely to&nbsp;the working classes, soaring retail prices had precluded any audience save the more affluent; had gentrified a previously bustling and lively cultural slum neighbourhood. This boost in fandom\u2019s age and status possibly explains its current sense of privilege, its tendency to carp and cavil rather&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}