Season 3, E5 ~ Fandom Fatigue: Navigating Passionate Fanbases and Finding Quality Content with Cultural Critic and Podcaster Klaudia Amenábar

Are you feeling the burn of fandom fatigue? Fear not, because for our fifth episode of season five, we're joined by the incredibly insightful podcaster (from queer Star Wars podcast, RuPalp's Podrace) and cultural critic Klaudia Amenábar, who's ready to help us navigate the world of passionate fandoms and the challenges of finding quality content.

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Season 2, E4: What The Hell Is Up With Parasocial Relationships - Healthy or Weird with Journalist Sadaf Ahsan

We're back for our fourth full-length episode of S2! For this week's episode, we get into one of the hottest trends of 2021: parasocial relationships with arts and culture journalist Sadaf Ahsan. No matter where you go on the Internet, it's all everyone is talking about. From the social and entertainment-kind, intense-personal, and borderline-pathological.

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Episode 05: The Weird & Wonderful World of Fan Fiction with Natalie Zina Walschots

Off the top, Ama & Danita get real about how their respective post-vaccine re-entries are going, then Ama is joined by Natalie Zina Walschots, Extremely Online Person) and author of one of our favorite books (Hench - READ IT OR ELSE!) to dive into everything fan fiction. What draws people to the genre? Why are content tags so great? What even constitutes literature? Do the Avengers watch the Bon Appetit YouTube channel in their downtime?

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