Welcome to the Fandom News Network, a new podcast from Allegra Rosenberg and the mysterious M.W. On an irregular basis we will be bringing you all that is new and exciting and stupid and bizarre from the world of online transformative fandom.

Our general interests are:

• Discourse, drama, fandom infighting
• How fandoms start/spread/are sustained
• Fandom practices’ spread to culture at large
• RPF, tinhatting, historical ships
• Exploring strange new worlds of unfamiliar fandoms in distant corners/past eras of the internet
• Being jaded 29-year-olds who have been involved in online fandom for 15+ years and are never leaving despite the increasing derangement of online platforms

If you have any hot tips or things that you’d like us to cover in further episodes, drop us a line in the comments or at lookinsidethepaperbag@gmail.com.

Listen to the pilot episode here:

Or here, with automated transcript.

In today’s episode…

Fujo News

• AO3 fundraising discourse
  • AO3’s yearly budget
  • Relevant Allegra self-promo
• Watching the Minecraft movie for the yaoi (?)
• The Pitt - what is going on?
  • More relevant Allegra self-promo

RPF Updates

• The basketball fujo’s valiant cry for help
• The youth are shipping Éamon de Valera and Michael Collins on TikTok (+ bonus Irish history lesson from M.W.)
• ART HISTORY YAOI INTERLUDE
• Severance RPF brief update
• Checking in on Nixon fandom and #prestwt

Main topic

• “Death to the shippers”
  • Has there really been a recent influx of “normies” into fandom?
  • How do new fans learn how to act when they join a fandom/how has that changed over the last decade?
  • THE JOANNA RUSS QUOTE

That’s all, folks!