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[zazikels]

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.

[techramonic]

you write so nicely. how do write everything so perfectly? any tips. i wanne write essays too

thank you so much! you're very sweet. this message made my day. yes, of course, I'll try my best to give you some tips on how I write my essay

However it is truly up to your interpretation on what factors would make an ordinary essay be sclaed and considered to be "good" or "excellent", these are the factors I consider to make an essay well-written:

organization and clarity

Keep things cohesive. People wouldn't want to read an essay with unfinished parts that follow to many more topics that are out of place. It's alright to do go astray from your topic, but make sure to tie it back in at the end and everything comes together well. It's like a puzzle piece, you have to make everything fit together in a way that it is comprehensive yet nice to look at. Your information should compliment each other, like you're telling a story, it shouldn't be chaotic because then how could someone think organized as well?

credibility and research

Add sources, citations, pictures, and other pieces of evidence that would gain the audience's trust in what you are writing. Cite a niche author, or a famous one, and describe hoe one of their theories could be applied to your work. People are getting more and more cautious of the information they intake, which they should, because media and information literacy is soemthing that should be learned. Make sure to research properly as well. There can be lots of contradicting information, don't be one of those who contribute to that. Aim to effectively write something factual, something that sticks to truth.

descriptive words

I consider this the most important. Leave some space for childlike curiousity, even if it's the most serious matter. Use descriptive words that strike people's imagination, not in a way where it's excessive, but in a way a thought is provoked. Adults like to stick to the figures:

"How many bodies were found?"

"What was the criminals age?"

"How many bullets did they use?"

They reduce everything to just numbers. While it is essential to know, talk about something more interesting when that information gets repetitive. When that information is already known by the public. Think about things that are thought provoking, things that would keep you up at night:

"What led this killer to commit the massacre?"

"What was the killers state before the crime? What contributed to it?"

"How did they obtain their weapons or make them?"

Paint people a picture of what you're trying to write. People always like to imagine things. Describe the emotional aspects, the tangible and physical ones, the smallest details. Make the audience imagine, make them think, make them feel your writing. That's what makes them stay. If they find a piece of humanity and emotion in what you write then you're able to perfectly convey something that transcends beyond the screen and connects both you and the audience – and that is your shared ability to think and ponder and deduce. your ability to feel.

If you have all of those, even if it's short or long, small or lengthy, it would be an appealing essay to read. Of course, everything works differently for one another, but I hope this somehow helped you. Good luck! I would love to read what you'd make.

[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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