{"id":9488,"date":"2019-07-24T14:20:54","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T21:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog-proxy.atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/?p=9488"},"modified":"2019-07-31T10:05:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T17:05:22","slug":"the-complicated-power-of-fandom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/the-complicated-power-of-fandom\/","title":{"rendered":"The Complicated Power Of Fandom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fandom is\u2026 complicated.<\/span>\u00a0I know that\u2019s a b<\/span>old statement<\/span>\u00a0for a behavior surrounding\u00a0<\/span>humans, a<\/span>\u00a0species that somehow manages to be the most complex and the most infuriatingly basic all at once.\u00a0<\/span>The power of fandom is great, and that\u2019s not always a good thing.\u00a0<\/span>A quick look through Twitter will pull up countless accounts proclaiming \u201cfandom is a cancer,\u201d or other reductive statements lumping together all of fandom<\/span>\u00a0for the actions of the few from within. But h<\/span>ere\u2019s the problem with those few: they\u2019re very loud.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Yeah, Okay, Let’s Get This Out Of The Way: A Small But Loud Percentage Of Fandom Can Be Toxic<\/h2>\n

Some fandoms have larger percentages of\u00a0<\/span>toxicity, such as the morphing of GamerGate into the alt-right-led ComicsGate<\/span>, and issues among the anime fandom seemingly ever-present. But, whether the percentage is big or small, every fandom\u2019s got \u2018<\/span>em<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>BatBros<\/span>\u00a0corner the DC market, while men\u2019s rights activists recently latched onto Captain Marvel, calling her a villain for standing up for herself after countless male protagonists (and actors) have behaved worse for decades.<\/span>\u00a0Star Wars has had its own share of nightmares, usually involving backlash surrounding one particular character from a given trilogy or that a particular movie didn’t tell the story they wanted it to.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We see it in fan entitlement, most recently seen in the\u00a0<\/span>Game of Thrones\u00a0<\/span><\/i>backlash,\u00a0<\/span>and<\/span>\u00a0going on for years with those who have demanded that DC \u201crelease the Snyder Cut.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>Hate to burst\u00a0<\/span>anyone\u2019s bubble, but that\u2019s not how television works, and there is no Snyder Cut.\u00a0<\/span>It\u2019s one thing to be upset something didn\u2019t go your way. We\u2019ve all had finales that have disappointed us. The thing is, it\u2019s not our art. We don\u2019t get to dictate how it ends.<\/span>\u00a0This is literally why\u00a0<\/span>fanfiction<\/span>\u00a0exists! Go write your own ending. Or do something like GoT actor Emilia Clarke, and start your own charity organization:<\/span><\/p>\n

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About 2,000 people donated to Emilia Clarke's charity, since the campaign launched last week.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a far cry from the 1.6 million fans who signed the petition to remake the final season of "Game Of Thrones," but, hey, it\u2019s a start. https:\/\/t.co\/XZVhdnGXbr<\/a><\/p>\n

— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) May 30, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n