Monday, October 15, 2007

You have all forgotten the true meaning of fandom!!!

What intrigued me most about the readings was the impossibility at how gullible many people are on the Internet. When one person is addressed as "O great one" and "all knowing" by geeks who wish to know "facts" to whatever it is they are geeks over, then you know that these people have been duped. But another problem remains with this debate about sites or people like Supershadow: the credibility of those who attack such things can be questioned as well. The critics have the same anonymity as those they are attacking on the Internet, so everyone must keep some sort of suspicion to anything when dealing with arguments such as the Supershadow argument. The critics could be other critics (probably even geekier than Supershadow) who engage in the same practices of false statements. I think of this battle of the geeks as a comparison to an episode of Robot Chicken where geeks discredit each other at a sci-fi convention, which leads to a brawl.

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