I really think that if you are or have been active in fan spaces of any kind, you should give Shannon Strucci's Fake Friends video essay series a watch (why only part 2 is on here is beyond me). This video essay confronted me with my own past actions and the main reason for my current disconnect from certain fan spaces.

I watched this two times. On a rewatch I thought some sections could have been shorter or cut because…

I watched this is in the cinema because someone else paid for it and I hated every minute of it. And then I thought I'd never have to see it again. But boy, was I wrong. I don't remember who brought the DVD to the 11th grade class trip but screw you. We had to take a bus for over 10 hours or so to Italy and this was apparently the only working DVD we had at hand so we…