By the time Love Island USA concluded on Sunday, millions of viewers who tuned in this summer felt defeated. Countless posts that flooded everyone’s timelines on X were exhausted, delirious, and even angry. Let’s state the obvious: the seventh season of the show was an absolute mess. The four remaining …
Read More »Has Online Fandom Gone Too Far?
Last month, in the heat of the Nicki Minaj and Megan Thee Stallion beef, TMZ reported that the cemetery where Megan’s mother Holly Thomas is buried had to bolster security after the location was doxxed on social media by one of Nicki’s fans, collectively known as “Barbz.” Nicki had nothing …
Read More »Eminem Is Co-Producing a Documentary About Him and His Stans
Eminem is fittingly set to co-produce, and be the partial focus of, a new documentary about obsessive superfans, tentatively (and obviously) titled Stans. As Variety reports, the new project was directed by Steven Leckart, and uses Eminem and “the fans that worship him” as a launching point for what’s described …
Read More »Britney Spears Stans Are Hopeful About Her Future, But a 'Level of Angst' Looms
With a fresh divorce from Sam Asghari and speculative headlines about Britney Spears’ life back in tabloid headlines, fans of the pop star are entering a new era of uncertainty and looking into the future with cautious optimism. After all, they, along with Spears, have somewhat been here before. When …
Read More »'Swarm,' a Beyoncé-Inspired Show About a Violent Stan, Is Beyond Twisted
Swarm, Prime Video’s new limited series from Donald Glover (in his first post-Atlanta project) and Janine Nabers (another Atlanta alum, as well as a writer on Watchmen), stars Dominique Fishback as Dre, a young woman from Houston whose entire life revolves around her fandom of pop icon Ni’Jah. In the …
Read More »'Swarm': What If a Beyoncé Stan Became a Serial Killer?
The cast and creatives behind Swarm, a mesmerizing TV series that premiered at SXSW ahead of its March 17 debut on Prime Video, have taken pains to avoid the elephant in the room: Beyoncé. It’s an odd predicament given that the form-breaking show is absolutely littered with references to the …
Read More »She Built a Following as Taylor Swift's Doppelgänger. Then the Swifties Came After Her
Earlier this month, Ashley Leechin, a registered nurse, mom of two kids, and TikTok creator known for her uncanny resemblance to Taylor Swift, posted a Change.org petition on her page. “This petition shares me side [sic] & is to help stop cyber bullying, harassment & false defamation towards myself, Ashley …
Read More »Did Gen Z Just Elect the First Pop Stan to Congress?
What’s more shocking, that Republicans failed to garner a red wave on Tuesday’s election night or that Florida just elected a confirmed Harry Styles stan to the House of Representatives? No, Beto O’Rourke didn’t move to another state. The distinction belongs to Maxwell Frost. On Tuesday night, the former National …
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