#kaitlyn tiffany

[samireads]

June reads 😗✌🏻

[msclaritea]

I wasn't specific coz everything that Gator says is a lie. And no, she and leaf DO NOT HAVE CONTACTS in the industry. They might be on a watchlist or something because they are conspiracy theorists. Didn't Aeltri get kicked out of a gala ? Wasn't there an article on the atlantic about how ridiculous gatorfisch's blog is? You don't need more proof that these 2 are liars.

You see that? It's called a receipt. Do not come back into my DMs, with your abject Whine, without at least offering some Cheese to go with. I am partial to Havarti Dill and Gouda.

[twopoppies]

have you read the "everything I need i get from you?" book? Just curious your thoughts bc it does touch on "big larrie" accounts and not in the nicest way.

No. That woman is a total moron. From the bits I saw, she understands nothing about fandom and even less about this specific fandom. Her concept of “big larries” is Amy. Which is really stupid. Amy has a ton of followers, but she’s never been a “big larrie” in the way that term was used when the boys were still in the band. It’s not even a term that’s relevant these days (which goes to show you how out of touch the author is). I don’t think any of those big accounts are even still active and anyone you might consider a “big larrie” isn’t influencing fandom the way they did back then. It’s just so different.

Find something better to read. She’s been very open about her disdain for larries as a whole. There’s no way she could write an unbiased account of what fandom life is like.

[quotesfrommyreading]

The last moral panic centered on widespread physical dangers to America’s children began in the early 1980s. Several high-profile and disturbing stories became media spectacles, including the 1981 murder (and then beheading) of 6-year-old Adam Walsh, who was abducted from a Sears department store in Hollywood, Florida. The Adam Walsh story was made into a TV movie that aired on NBC in October 1983, the same year that the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz was fictionalized in the theatrically released movie Without a Trace.

Adam’s father, John Walsh, who later spent more than two decades as the host of America’s Most Wanted, claimed that 50,000 children were abducted “for reasons of foul play” in the United States every year. He warned a Senate subcommittee in 1983: “This country is littered with mutilated, decapitated, raped, strangled children.” In response, Congress passed two laws—establishing a nationwide hotline and creating the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The panic prompted the building of shopping-mall kiosks where parents could fingerprint or videotape their children to make them easier for police to identify. According to the sociologist David Altheide, it also led to the advertising of dental-identification implants for people who did not yet have their permanent teeth, as well as the creation of a cottage industry of missing-child insurance to cover the cost of private detectives in the event of an abduction. As a 1986 story in The Atlantic recounted, the nonprofit National Child Safety Council printed photos of missing children on 3 billion milk cartons; a person would have had to be paying close attention to notice that all the photos were of the same 106 faces. (The photos also appeared on grocery bags, Coca-Cola bottles, thruway toll tickets, and pizza boxes.) “Ordinary citizens may have encountered explicit reminders of missing children more often than for any other social problem,” the sociologist Joel Best wrote in 1987.

The fear of stranger abduction was partly a product of the cultural environment at the time. “Family values” political rhetoric drove paranoia about the drug trade, pornography, and crime. Second-wave feminism had encouraged more women to enter the workforce, though not without societal pressure to feel guilt and anxiety about leaving their children at home alone, or in the care of strangers. The divorce rate was rising, and custody battles were becoming more common, leading to the complicated legal situation of “family abduction,” or “child snatching.”

Yet there was still a backstop, a way for the panic to end. The Denver Post won a Pulitzer Prize for its 1985 story laboriously debunking the statistics that had caused such widespread alarm. The actual number of children kidnapped by strangers, according to FBI documentation, turned out to be 67 in 1983, up from 49 in 1982. A two-part PBS special explained the statistics and addressed the role that made-for-TV movies and media coverage had played in stoking the fire; a study conducted in 1987 by Altheide and the crime analyst Noah Fritz found that three-quarters of viewers who had previously considered “missing children” a serious problem changed their minds immediately after watching it. With the arrival of better information, the missing-children panic faded.

But decades later, fears have flared again. “You know how they used to have the kids on the milk cartons way back in the day?” Jaesie Hansen, a Utah-based mother of four who sells Operation Underground Railroad and #SaveOurChildren decals on Etsy, asked me in July. “That wouldn’t even be a possibility now, because there’s so many kids. There’s not enough milk cartons to put them on.”

  —  The Great (Fake) Child-Sex-Trafficking Epidemic

[mitchipedia]

Kaitlyn Tiffany on what it takes for a community of people to leave one social media community en masse for another, looking at fandom's migration from LiveJournal to Tumblr as one example.

[oiforfoxsake]

September Wrap Up

1. Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It by Kaitlyn Tiffany 

2. Aphrodite Made Me do It

3. Eating Salad Drunk

4. Daisy Jones and the Six

5. The Butcher and the Wren 

6. The Dragon’s Bride 

7. Mall Santas

[an-easy-escape]

It was the fifty-thousand-person shouting match disguised as a sing-along, and the thunderclap of sneakers hitting concrete on every downbeat, eliminating the need to speak or catch any individual eye.

[a-h-87769877]

“If someone wants to switch from twitter to tumblr, celebrity or otherwise, good for them. Who cares? That’s their business. We’re all equally insufferable anyway.” -Nat Ku

[kulturado]

The Story: The GIF Is on Its Deathbed

The Writer: Kaitlyn Tiffany

(animated gif: Erik Carter/The Atlantic)

[zot3-flopped]

I have to say, at least doll lady has mostly moved on from the fandom and does her own thing. twopedos is the #1 out of touch larrie I’ve ever seen…she’s a middle aged mother that goes on tumblr all day & has read about 3000 smut fanfics of Harry and L****s. When I go on her blog there’s always anons asking for fic recs and she somehow always has a recommendation for anything, along with her in-depth thoughts about it.

A book needs to be written about the psychology of this behavior; it’s simply not normal. When you’re a teenager? Sure. A grown adult? Unstable.

Is anyone going to pay hundreds of dollars for photos of Amy? Her ego is out of control again. The IG account where she advertises her photos and videos only has 29 followers!

[msclaritea]

These criminals are a special kind of stupid and exactly what kind of sociopath is Laurene Powell Jobs to be close to child sex traffickers? The public is waking up to all of this bullcrap, no matter how many distractions those behind all of this try to come up with.

Benedict Cumberbatch needs to be protected at all costs.

[lady-grace-pens]

I watched Breakfast at Tiffany’s for the first time this morning and I can’t stop thinking about how much I hated it. I can’t figure out why. But I also watched the first part of Barry Lyndon and I’m really into it so there’s that too

Rant in tags because I have thoughts and opinions

[sophs-style]

sophs-style:

Tiffany & Co. threw an exclusive dinner to commemorate the launch of the new Tiffany Lock collection in West Hollywood, California on Wednesday (26th October 2022).

Lori Harvey (wearing Joah Brown and Rick Owens), Alexandra Daddario (wearing Michael Kors Collection), Bruna Marquezine (wearing Magda Butrym), Halsey (wearing Bronx and Banco), Stephanie Shepherd and Zoey Deutch (wearing Del Core), Alexa Demie (wearing Vivienne Westwood), Adria Arjona and Kaitlyn Dever (wearing Christian Dior). All of the attendees wore Tiffany & Co. Lock pieces.

[quotesfrommyreading]

On November 8, 2016, it really did feel as though the physical laws of the universe had changed. Time didn’t stop that night, but it did stretch out, and in the morning everything was different; we saw divides we hadn’t seen before, and no obvious way to bridge them. A lot of people didn’t even want to bridge them.

  —  Where Did the Internet Challenge Go?

[alexademieupdates]

Alexa Demie & Kaitlyn Dever at the Tiffany & Co launch of the Lock Collection party.

26/10/22