#someday some poor academic is going to idolize me for the data i collect on fandom today | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

hua-fei-hua · 1 year

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that one academic paper wherein someone discusses anti culture in fandom n stuff is on my dash again, n i read most of the discourse in the replies, and i am once again very tired of the fact that fandom as a subculture is generally considered to not be worth academic interest.

it's kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy when it comes to legitimacy too, since the last of academic precedence makes it difficult to find other papers to cite, but as soon as you, a person deep within that subculture yourself, try to use personal experiences to support your ideas, suddenly what you're writing isn't academically rigorous enough and shouldn't be counted.

#honestly stuff like this is probably why i tend to be like. really fucking into data collection and hesitant to make claims w/certainty #and probably also why i'm like 'what does it mean. what does it all MEAN' all the time w/the data i gather lmao #god i need to finish writing this speech so i can do other things for a bit n not the other way around #花話 #someday some poor academic is going to idolize me for the data i collect on fandom today #and hopefully after i am FREED from school n nat n i can like. sit down n write some gacha essays proper #mayhaps someday some poor academic will find a goldmine in our neocities lol

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