Television and Film @adultswim.fan obnoticus @adultswim.fan 2w ago

‘Fandom has toxified the world’: Watchmen author Alan Moore on superheroes, Comicsgate and Trump

www.theguardian.com ‘Fandom has toxified the world’: Watchmen author Alan Moore on superheroes, Comicsgate and Trump

Enthusiasm can be a productive force for good, but our culture has rapidly become a fan-based landscape that the rest of us are merely living in

I believe that fandom is a wonderful and vital organ of contemporary culture, without which that culture ultimately stagnates, atrophies and dies. At the same time, I’m sure that fandom is sometimes a grotesque blight that poisons the society surrounding it with its mean-spirited obsessions and ridiculous, unearned sense of entitlement.

NoYank. Remove All American Media And Culture From Your Life @lemmy.ml Porcupine @lemmy.ml 2w ago

Alan Moore "ventured my opinion that the adult multitudes queueing for superhero movies were potentially an indicator of emotional arrest, which could have worrying political and social implications"

www.theguardian.com /books/2024/oct/26/fandom-has-toxified-the-world-watchmen-author-alan-moore-on-superheroes-comicsgate-and-trump