Fanthropology: Internal Strife
This past weekend, all five members of GeekGirlCon's operations team resigned in a fairly public manner, using the corporate email to send a message...
Fanthropology: SDCC & Pop Culture
Comic-Con International just wrapped up in San Diego and, by all the accounts I've seen, was generally a rousing success. I didn't see any reports of...
Fanthropology: Reclaiming Terms
Otaku is a loan word from Japanese. The original definition meant "a young person who is obsessed with computers or particular aspects of popular...
Fanthropology: Creator vs Creation
Let's say that you're a fan of Sherlock Holmes. You love the character's use of logic and deductive reasoning, and you try to follow his example...
Fanthropology: A Fan of Whom?
Generally, when we think of fandoms, they're centered around a broad property like Star Wars or Harry Potter. They can become popular because people...
Put Fire in Your Belly with New HELLBOY Whiskey
If you're going to make a whiskey based on Dark Horse Comics' Hellboy, you better bring the heat. That's what Dark Horse, XXX Distillery LLC and...
Fanthropology: Don’t Be a Dick
Last week, Sophie LaBelle's website was hacked, and much of the art was replaced with Nazi imagery. Her home address was posted on a variety of...
Fanthropology: Subscription Boxes
If you're a fan of pretty much anything these days, I should think it would be hard to have not noticed the rise of subscription box services. For a...
Fanthropology: Immersive Experiences
When I was a kid, the Cedar Point theme park had a dark ride entitled Earthquake, loosely based on the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Guests would...
Fanthropology: Marketing Authenticity
One of the more viral news items from last week was a new ad featuring Kendall Jenner. The ad itself didn't go viral so much as the negative...