When does fandom get too extreme? with Sam Aburime

<div>The internet allows all sorts of people to come together to share their love of musicians, actors, tv shows and movies, and...anything. Everything. There are communities who share a love even specific characters from a book series, and I've even recently come across a diehard community of people who share a specific love of Uncrustables - a frozen peanut butter and jelly sandwich snack. <br> <br> But what happens when fandoms go too far? What happens when a group of people with a lot of big feelings, access to all sorts of personal information, and the anonymity of a screen name decide to turn on you? That's when fandom gets extreme. <br> <br> I spoke to illustrator and researcher Sam Aburime about the rise of Extreme Fandoms. Sam kindly provided resources for you to use as a springboard if this topic interests you:<br> <br> Further Published Reading on Anti-Fans:</div> <ul> <li>"Jonathan Gray describes anti-fans as those who 'strongly dislike a given text or genre, considering it inane, stupid, morally bankrupt and/or aesthetic drivel' (Gray 2003, 70). He also acknowledges that 'fans can become anti-fans of a sort when an episode or part of a text is perceived as harming a text as a whole' (73). However, as his contribution to this collection discusses, anti-fan practices are varied and take a number of different forms." (Williams, 2020, <em>Anti-fandom: Dislike and hate in the digital age</em>)</li> <li>Symposium specifically related to Antis: Aburime, Samantha. 2021. "The Cult Structure of the American Anti." Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 36. <a href="https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2021.2147.">https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2021.2147.</a> </li> <li>Wikis:<ul><li>‘Anti-Shipper’, (2023), Fanlore Wiki, May 12, <a href="https://fanlore.org/wiki/Anti-shipper"><em><a href="https://fanlore.org/wiki/Anti-shipper">https://fanlore.org/wiki/Anti-shipper</a></em></a> </li></ul> </li> <li>Books &amp; Articles:<ul> <li>Click, M. A. (ed.), (2020), <em>Anti-fandom: Dislike and hate in the digital age</em>, New York: