The Fangirls Deserve Your Respect

Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: Amelia Holowaty Krales Fans rule the internet. They are responsible for our online vocabulary, the topics and news items that trend every day, and, most importantly, memes. So many memes. In Kaitlyn Tiffany’s new book, Everything I Need I Get From You: How Fangirls Created the Internet As We Know It, the author explores a subset of fans consisting of passionate women and girls known as “fangirls.

Your book’s title is inspired by a One Direction lyric. You’re a Directioner, but you make it clear early on that this is not a book about One Direction. What is it about? It’s natural as a fan to be protective of the borders of a fandom, because it’s been dismissed and maligned so often by critics and people who aren’t participants in it.

Fans were always breaking things — finding new functionality in each iteration of online life and figuring out new ends to which you could put tools that other people might have been taking at face value and only using the way they’d been demonstrated.

In the case of boy-band fandom, there’s the stereotype of these silly girls who are asking their parents to spend all this money on dumb stuff and that that is what fandom is — being a dupe, being a capitalist pawn, wasting time, wasting money, being frivolous.

I went to Los Angeles partly because it felt lonely and isolating to be looking for these relics that might not be there. It was exciting to think about like, Okay, so it’s hard for me to find the conversation around this vomit shrine. I remember when everyone was talking about it, and I can find some of the images that I remember around it, but it would feel good to re-situate myself in the weirdness of that story. I went to L.A.

......I'm a fanwoman of One Piece.....

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