If you want to see a song hit the top of the Billboard charts, it’s not enough to just listen to it. You should also bookmark a master post of every radio station in the United States (and the United Kingdom, and Ireland and Mexico and Italy and Ecuador) that takes requests via Twitter or online contact forms and petition them to play it—politely,

Though fandom shaped Tumblr, the affordances of Tumblr shaped fandom in return. The medium caused something big to happen: the blossoming of a conspiracy theory that might otherwise have stayed the private secret of a small group of fans.

There was a before and an after, turning on a moment of transition from an old point of view, “dominated by ignorance and disenchantment,” to a dramatically different one, “filled with energy and insight.”

“Anonymous is now weaponizing stan energy,”

“They don’t get any of this side of me because they don’t deserve it.”

Though, of course, many K-pop fans were participating sincerely in the Black Lives Matter movement, Morimoto felt it was somewhat overlooked that this was “an event that made particularly good use of skills that they happened to have, because they’re cultivated within that fandom.” It didn’t mean that K-pop fans were suddenly the most politically

In August 1998, David Bowie announced that he would be launching the “first artist-created Internet Service Provider.” BowieNet, as it was called, was a fully functioning ISP for eight years. Fans paid $19.95 a month for a “davidbowie.com” email address, Bowie chat rooms, exclusive Bowie content (including concert “cybercasts”), 5 MB of storage

The joke is that we have talked so much about these people that we no longer have anything left to say that isn’t totally absurd.

With our millions of patient streams and endless tweets, we’re laboring out of love, but we also expect something in return: we come to see it as crucial that our values be reflected, to the letter, by those we have chosen and feel we can influence.