#and go gain some media literacy while you're at it

[ayrennaranaaldmeri]

imagine being this level of unfathomably fucking stupid. get mental help you braindead idiot.

[pretty-weird-ideas]

IWTV Twitter and the so-called "Fake Black Fans" Invasion

Something that I've been seeing a lot after it gained traction on Max is white fans condescendingly talking down to Black fans, some of whom have been in this fandom longer than they have, and acting as if they don't know what they are talking about because of their critique including a concept or subtext they wish to ignore. I want to repeat that this doesn't happen in the same amounts to white fans who make analyses or memes, it seems to uniquely be Black fans speaking AAVE or with Black pfps (visibly black bc of this) being bombed in the comments for having valid opinions.

I reached about the fifth tweet of white women going onto posts of Black people (particularly older women on Black Twitter) talking about IWTV and saying "You don't know what you're talking about, read the source material/finish the show" or entirely saying that "You don't understand fandom culture". Prompting those Black people to respond curtly that they, in fact, have read the source material, finished the show long before they have, and have been a fandom elder since before they even rolled into town. I witnessed someone doing BABY talk to a 30-year-old Black woman who was talking about episode 5, with "Well you see, it's not my fault you can't read". And when the woman professed anger back, she was the one blocked.

I witnessed this backhanded shit FIVE TIMES over the course of this week. With different white women doing the job of whitesplaining fandom culture and Anne Rice to random Black fans who already know unprompted with a level of passive aggressiveness and annoyance that only comes with doing it repeatedly. I must assure you (white people who are doing this) nobody asked, you can put down your task and stop pretending like you are doing something Sisyphean. You are not legally required to explain and describe IWTV poorly while getting into screaming matches with far more educated Black fans on Twitter and Tumblr.

People are acting as if there's a rising population of Black fans who are "Fake Fans" and must be stopped, lest they start up the freaky discourse. OOHHH NOOOO! Whatever are we to do then???? And therefore it is completely normal and a civic duty to blast Black fans in the comments of everything that they say about the show or the books.

I've been seeing people unironically football tackle reaction posts of the show with paragraphs worth of text that is inflammatory and backhanded. This is even more apparent when the poster is visibly black or uses AAVE. The association is that Black people who use AAVE or memes obviously are uneducated, lack media literacy, and cannot consume content the way that "White" fans do.

It is an attempt to tone police Black fans away from creating new topics of discussion or creating/expanding the fandom space with the growing watcher-base. It always has to happen in their chosen language, on their time, in the places they can reach us and yell some more. They are very discomforted when Black fans have pockets in fandom where they can't be outnumbered and they do in fact control discourse in a way that isn't productive to respectability. (As much as I am a big fan of big words and rambling, that is somewhat what is expected in this fandom as a Black person to be considered "respectable" and I'm not willing to ignore or shy away from that).

This is also hand in hand with my previous thoughts about fans' dog-whistling about media becoming accessible/mainstream and how "Others" will ruin it and outnumber them. I noticed that in the IWTV fandom, it seems like white fans believe that the "Others" is just Black Twitter in general. Not just "Twitter" but specifically Black people who don't fit into their narrow respectability politics.

I hate to tell you all this, but Black fandom culture is still fandom culture, and Black people do in fact read and write. I should not be seeing a pattern of random white fans going into the comments of Black people who mention IWTV and automatically assuming that they have no clue what they're talking about.

Like clockwork, exactly as when the show came out, racist white book fans started up the discourse of "The Black people are going to ruin fandom with their racism discourse and spit on Anne Rice!" and then when that time passed, the show reaches Max, and here they go barking again.... We really need to get a muzzle.

[jagged--dust-jacket-analysis]

The lack of Media Literacy people have these day's is actually so sad and kind of frustrating.

Being involved in fandom a lot has allowed me to observe a large amount of people and their abilities to take in and comprehend pieces of media. And most people involved in fandom actually lack these skills. It's as if they didn't finish taking a high school English class.

Obviously I understand that some people may not have access to these things, or children who have not yet gained comprehension skills. And I'm not necessarily talking about these people.

But there are people out there who talk like they know a whole lot, but have no clue what they're talking about. They don't have the media literacy skills necessary to have informed or complex discussions but still attempt to partake in them.

This is why fandom is such a double edged sword. Because on one hand, it is a free way to have engaging conversations with people around the world for a source of media you enjoy.

On the other hand it is a way to have open conversations. Meaning everyone who is a fan of the topic of discussion can and may be involved in what you're talking about. Meaning you're going to get a lot of takes that are not only flat and one dimensional, but also plain wrong at times.

There are many examples of different fandom controversies I could give you, but all of them are hyper specific and I want to keep this post general (Maybe a Future post?) But again, there are several examples I could give so if you wanna look into it yourself, these are just a few things to look into (like fandom's, terms, etc.):

Bsd (Bungou Stray Dogs. Specifically the "Nurse Scene Debate" but a lot of fandom discussion can further prove my point).

Tmf (The Music Freaks. This is a smaller fandom, but there's just lot of conversation surrounding characters. Take your pick and theres bound to be 'controversy,' of some sort).

Winx Club (Conversation surrounding Bloom, the Mary Sue debate in specifically).

Mary Sue (This is not a fandom, but this word in general is grossly overused and misused).

Queer Baiting (Again, not a fandom but the debates about this terms meaning lends itself nicely to this conversation of media literacy).

Any Modern movie with remote social commentary (Just look into discussions surround these movies. A lot of times there will be lacking takes to either explain a love or hate for these movies. Almost always do these fall into a logical fallacy).

Mha (My Hero Academia. Oh gOD- so much for this fandom... so much...)

There are many more examples, but you get the idea. I find animated works are guilty of having this issue. But this can be traced back to the fact that animated television draws in younger audiences. People who might not have the experiences and skills to partake in educated conversations on specific topics. So it does make sense. And just because it is most prominent in animated works, doesn't mean it doesn't occur in other types of artistic works.

I do see a lot of people discredit the media literacy conversation. Saying that telling people they're media illiterate is just the new way to not let people have opinions. Or that it's mainly a talking point of conservatives to discount genuine social critiques of movies and modern television.

And while this is sometimes the case, because people do abuse the argument of media literacy a lot. I think a majority of the time people are just lacking the analytical skills necessary to have conversations and don't like being told they're wrong.

Media Literacy is genuinely an issue in today's society. It is a travesty that a lot of people lack the skills to analyze any form of media ranging from Movies to Books to Television. And don't be mistaken, this doesn't just impact how we interact with media as a society, but also how we interact with each other.

Because the basic skills we use to analyze movies and books, correlate with the skills we need to understand people and their perspectives. It's how we understand arguments we present to each other about anything and everything.

The lack of media literacy is just the start and warning signs of larger issues to come. And outside of that, it's just plain sad. The education system has failed people and some people with the resources to learn have chosen to fail themselves.

[rubiatinctorum]

What that post about media literacy and literacy rates doesn't factor for is that media literacy is a related but separate skill from traditional literacy. While literacy is focused on the ability of reading and writing, media literacy is focused on analysis, evaluation, and synthesis. The ability to do the former precludes the ability to do the latter, but not vice versa — someone can be literate yet in want of media literacy skills, and acquiring one is highly important but cannot substitute the other completely, nor is mentioning or even lamenting one doing anything to take away from the importance of and statistics on the other.

There's this thing in education called Bloom's Taxonomy, which is sort of like a Hierarchy of Needs (people on this site are familiar with that, right, from the memes I've seen) but for learning and demonstrating processes.

Wherein lower tier concepts are subsumed within doing higher tier concepts; to apply, you have knowledge/remember and understanding, for example.

So for literacy, you're at least getting the remember/knowledge and the understanding, and probably some of the application. But media literacy often focuses on application and analysis at least. You can get how this makes it a different skill set, yeah?

Literacy is highly important. Media literacy is often important, too. Discussing how people could gain better skills of analysis, evaluation, and synthesis (even if it is done upon seeing "a bad take") isn't a proclamation that those people don't have general literacy (and therefore a trivialization of the challenges posed towards those who do not have it), it's a statement about a different set of skills that happen to be related but not identical to literacy, and happen to have the same word in the name because of that.

And let's not even get into information literacy and digital literacy right now, because I'm tired. But those are also specific skill sets that don't trivialize literacy to talk about the importance of.

Anyway, it's 3AM, I'm posting about a post I could have scrolled past instead, good night good hunting and go straight home

[sarathjohn]

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