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Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It by Kaitlyn Tiffany
hannahcanread's review against another edition
4.0
You read about them online or hear a story on the news, this book takes you inside fandom. Very informative book on what it is, what it takes, and life as a super fan.
I couldn’t stop listening to this book! I find this whole fandom world so interesting but never knew how obsessed some can get. Well written and held your attention.
I couldn’t stop listening to this book! I find this whole fandom world so interesting but never knew how obsessed some can get. Well written and held your attention.
leafblade's review
1.0
I recieved a copy of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Let's start by saying I wouldn't have read this book if the synopsis had been truthful about what was inside. Yes it does mention One Direction, but this book is literally about the 1D fandom and nothing else. Every other fandom that gets mentioned is only in passing, just as a way to bring some 1D story up. And I do not care about that stale ass boyband at all! I do know/recognize some songs, but I have no clue about what's up with their lives, and never had. I have never been in the fandom. Actually, I got bullied out of a friend group when I was 13 and one of the reasons was that I didn't like the same things as they did! Which included 1D at the time! So yeah. I wish the synopsis talked about what this actually is about so we wouldn't be in this situation now.
My problems with the book are purely about what was lacking from what was promised to me, which was a thorough story about how fangirls shaped the internet to fit their needs. The damn front cover says it!!!
How can you talk about the original fanfiction archives and not mention Star Trek? How can you not mention Anne Rice AT ALL and make it seem like the only problem with Livejournal and Fanfiction dot net was that you could not write smut? Authors were out for our blood, and AO3 was the first archive to have ACTUAL REAL LIFE LAWYERS to advocate for fans if authors dared file a lawsuit against us. How can you talk about how the internet becomes real life and not talk about DASHCON????? How were you on tumblr on 2012 and not talk about superwholock, Peter Pan from disney world, the shoelaces, All or nothing, Carmilla?? How can you pretend to represent the boyband fandom at large and only mention in passing the BTS fandom taking down that cops app?? How can you fail to mention how fandoms have become more and more predominantly queer? And this is just my stan ass talking, but in 2020 AO3 was banned from China because of a Xiao Zhan x Wang Yibo fanfiction. What does shaping the internet mean if not getting a whole website banned from your country because you shipped two guys too hard?? The only time she mentioned Star Trek was to say the fandom was mostly men!!!! ¿!?¿!?¿!?¿!?¿!?!?!¿
I really really really really would've enjoyed this a lot more if it was a fiction book. I did kind of like reading about the author's trips to see the places where iconic 1D moments had taken place in. Mind you, I started skipping them around 50% in because I couldn't bear to read these guys' name one more time, and she jumped back and forth between calling them "Harry" which made it seem like she was talking about her cousin, and "Styles" which made it seem like she was a 50 year old talking about who the young ladies like and how he's a bad influence. But they sounded like fun times. An Eleanor Oliphant-like literary fiction book would've been the perfect place for these anecdotes. Unlike this book.
Let's start by saying I wouldn't have read this book if the synopsis had been truthful about what was inside. Yes it does mention One Direction, but this book is literally about the 1D fandom and nothing else. Every other fandom that gets mentioned is only in passing, just as a way to bring some 1D story up. And I do not care about that stale ass boyband at all! I do know/recognize some songs, but I have no clue about what's up with their lives, and never had. I have never been in the fandom. Actually, I got bullied out of a friend group when I was 13 and one of the reasons was that I didn't like the same things as they did! Which included 1D at the time! So yeah. I wish the synopsis talked about what this actually is about so we wouldn't be in this situation now.
My problems with the book are purely about what was lacking from what was promised to me, which was a thorough story about how fangirls shaped the internet to fit their needs. The damn front cover says it!!!
How can you talk about the original fanfiction archives and not mention Star Trek? How can you not mention Anne Rice AT ALL and make it seem like the only problem with Livejournal and Fanfiction dot net was that you could not write smut? Authors were out for our blood, and AO3 was the first archive to have ACTUAL REAL LIFE LAWYERS to advocate for fans if authors dared file a lawsuit against us. How can you talk about how the internet becomes real life and not talk about DASHCON????? How were you on tumblr on 2012 and not talk about superwholock, Peter Pan from disney world, the shoelaces, All or nothing, Carmilla?? How can you pretend to represent the boyband fandom at large and only mention in passing the BTS fandom taking down that cops app?? How can you fail to mention how fandoms have become more and more predominantly queer? And this is just my stan ass talking, but in 2020 AO3 was banned from China because of a Xiao Zhan x Wang Yibo fanfiction. What does shaping the internet mean if not getting a whole website banned from your country because you shipped two guys too hard?? The only time she mentioned Star Trek was to say the fandom was mostly men!!!! ¿!?¿!?¿!?¿!?¿!?!?!¿
I really really really really would've enjoyed this a lot more if it was a fiction book. I did kind of like reading about the author's trips to see the places where iconic 1D moments had taken place in. Mind you, I started skipping them around 50% in because I couldn't bear to read these guys' name one more time, and she jumped back and forth between calling them "Harry" which made it seem like she was talking about her cousin, and "Styles" which made it seem like she was a 50 year old talking about who the young ladies like and how he's a bad influence. But they sounded like fun times. An Eleanor Oliphant-like literary fiction book would've been the perfect place for these anecdotes. Unlike this book.
kaikaleda's review
5.0
basically fangirls have and always will be one of the most powerful forces on earth