hate is parasocial, too
for destruction ice / is also great
A couple different people sent me this article about Sydney Towle, an influencer with cancer who also has a sizeable anti-fandom that believes she doesn’t have cancer. (Let’s cut to the chase here: Towle does, in fact, have cancer.) After I finished reading the article, my first thought was that nobody who had really dug in on the anti-fandom side was going to change their minds… even when presented with evidence that they were just wrong. Even if they accepted that she was sick (big if!), they’d still be right in some other way.
A little Reddit searching immediately after the fact revealed that, indeed, they did not:
