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May 17, 2019: Toxic fandom and the horrors of fan theories
With Game of Thrones coming to a quick conclusion this weekend, Jason tackles the scourge of toxic fandom on this week’s episode of Let’s Talk About. What happens when fans turn vile? What happens when our own desires, headcanon, and entitlement coalesce in a firestorm of hate directed at the very creators we laud as geniuses? What happens when a few toxic individuals are given a soap box with which to spit their venom at women and people of colour? That’s how you get toxic fandom.