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llycaons · 2 years ago

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huh okay don’t quote me on any of this because I listened to this all over the course of a week and I’m sure I’ve confused a few details but I’m listening to a podcast about something actually quite horrible related to fandom-type interactions in the 2000s - 2010s and the host is talking about this cult survivor who was being interviewed by this women who is now a (bad) vox journalist but before being a journalist she apparently was this 'big name fan’ in all these fan spaces including homestuck and hp and had a ton of beef with like, cassandra clare? and I went ‘wait, a fandomy journalist who works for vox? could it be....no.’ but I googled it and there she is. aja fucking romano, the lady who wrote the cql vox article (the big one). what a world. I kind of want to google her later.

#cult m #I didn't read the article it looked kind of cringe #the cql one I mean. like. no thanks #idk what she did besides writing a horrible articles about this cult survivor and apparently glorifying her abuser #which is bad ebough ofc but it sounds like there's more #what did she DO #do any of use remember fan spaces 20 years ago? I certainly don't. being an elementary schooler and all #the idea of big name fans with actual influence is wild but honestly given how new the internet was I can definitely see it happening #the podcast is in a patreon but it's three episodes called the stone circle #and it goes into detail about this man and the various events relating to cults and abuse he was involved in using fandom spaces to #influence people usually in very manipulative and predatory ways #he was also on tumblr for a while but ig he got run off there are awareness blogs warning people about him #wild.#cor.txt

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