Rewriting Ripley

32 villains enter, 1 VILLAIN LEAVES. Join us as we talk, argue, and plead our cases in a 32 villain bracket with only 1 coming out on top. Friendships will be tested, patience tried, pandemonium!... Or maybe you'll have a good time, who knows? We also discuss all things online villain discourse and we have some choice words for twitter.  Timestamps:  8:00 - 32:07: Online villain discourse  32:08 - end: Villain battle royal 

C/W: This episode contains mentions of pedophilia and CSEM ENTER: Digital Society. The year is 2014. The alt right is rising online with mass harassment movements like gamergate, reactionary "cancel culture" is finding its way into left wing spaces on college campuses, and the suicide rate among teens is skyrocketing. Lady V and Katie close out a 3-part series on the brief history of online fandom with a look at the internet from 2014 until now where we cover right-wing PsyOps, the Tumblr NSFW ban, the death of nuance, and growing concerns surrounding online engagement and mental health. Timestamps: Ebay's NSFW ban: 4m 18s YouTube and "Free Speech:" 12m 55s MAPs: 29m 0s Tumblr NSFW Ban Part 1: 39m 49s "Cancel Culture" on College Campuses: 42m 58s Tumblr NSFW Ban Part II: 1 hr 11m 5s Future of Fandom: 1 hr 23m 49s Full notes and references at www.rewritingripley.com 

C/W This episode contains mentions of self-harm from 41:15 to 42:09 Panic!In The Fandom. The glory days of web 1.0 have ended and the nazis and puritans have arrived in full force. Lady V and Katie continue to explore the brief history of fandom from the founding of YouTube in 2005 up until 2013. We answer the question: where DID current political discourse in fandom begin? We're talking the rise of UGC, 4chan's misogynistic obsession with Justin Bieber, the 2nd FanFiction.net purge, the LiveJournal strikethrough, and, yes, we once again have to talk about Richard Spencer. Timestamps: 5m 11s: News! Oscars + Bin Bons 19m 20s: YouTube Takes the Internet 26m 55s: 4chan, Richard Spencer, and...Justin Bieber? 50m 16s: The 2012 FanFiction.net Purge and the LiveJournal Strikethrough Full notes on www.rewritingripley.com 

In our second podcast series, Lady V and Katie cover the (brief) history of online fandom and how it got to where it is today. In this episode, we travel back to Web 1.0 when websites looked like a PowerPoint deck, YouTube was Albino Blacksheep, Fortnite was RuneScape, Anne Rice didn't like your fanfiction, and 4chan was still an anime forum. We also discuss the Yahoo! Answers shut down and how, no, George Lucas doesn't get enough appreciation, actually. Yahoo! Answers Shuts Down: 2m 19s Fanfiction.net and Early Fansites: 15m 37s Flash Animation and MMOs: 31m 0s Anne Rice: 57m 35s 4chan: 1 hr 10m 32s All references and further notes on www.rewritingripley.com 

In this finale of our three part series on alt-right radicalization in fandom spaces (and guys, its a long one), Katie and Lady V explain how fake narratives online can spread as truth and touch upon numerous harassment campaigns against creatives at Lucasfilm. We also take time to humorously review EVERYTHING that happened after we kick-started this series from doxxing and death threats to being called witches and demons and cat ladies, oh my! Timestamps: How hate against The Last Jedi became the story: 00:04:10 Harassment of Lucasfilm creatives: 00:28:42 A discussion of The Rise of Skywalker: 00:38:26 #YourSlipIsShowing: 01:15:46 So, we were doxxed: 01:21:27 Coming soon: 01:58:12 Disavow & Deplatform: 02:04:04

Welcome to the Math Episode. Katie monologues her social media analysis (spoiler alert: The Last Jedi wasn't actually "polarizing."). She also gets real with her past brush with radicalization in online fandom (no, not Star Wars) and Lady V did not figure Muse in her 2021 bingo card. Timestamps:  00:00:00 - 00:03:15: Intro  00:03:16 - 00:24:47: Reaction to The Last Jedi  00:024:48 - 00:38:38: Twitter sentiment analysis  00:38:39 - 00:42:26: YouTube sentiment analysis  00:42:27 - 01:16:18: The effectiveness of alt-right propaganda  01:16:19 - 01:36:54: Alt-right radicalization in Star Wars fandom  01:36:55: A brief note on monetization      Full show notes at www.rewritingripley.com 

In this 2-part series, Katie and Lady V take a deep dive into alt right radicalization in Star Wars fandom. In Part 1, Lady V walks us through the timeline of conservative outrage culture from Rush Limbaugh to Steve Bannon. We discuss the harrowing impact of Gamergate, Breitbart News, and Cambridge Analytica on the so-called "21st century culture war" and what that all has to do with the #BoycottStarWarsVII hashtag. Was this racist attack against actor John Boyega really just 4chan trolls? Did Gamergate ever actually "die"? And how many different ways can Katie really pronounce "Breitbart?" Full show notes and article at www.rewritingripley.com 

Katie and Lady V discuss the troubling impact of social media on content creation, Ben Shapiro's latest grift, and why do we constantly hear the phrase "Mary Sue?" Equipped with over 250k data points, we answer once and for all: Do people ACTUALLY use "Gary Stu" to describe male characters or is it all just sexism? Check out full show notes, data visualizations, and methodology at our website: www.rewritingripley.com