A review by brep23
Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It by Kaitlyn Tiffany

funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

I ended up liking this more than I expected! The title does not do this book any favors— it gives the expectation that this is going to be a history of women in fandom on the Internet, when really it's a retrospective of a very specific place and time (the One Direction fandom in the early to mid 2010s) and how it affected our current mediascape, with some historical context and memoir-type anecdotes thrown in. Once you get on-board with the scope this book is actually trying to tackle, there are some fascinating anecdotes and revelations here, though as someone who was in fandom during this time period, I did have to shake my head a few times at how the author seemed to only have a basic understanding of the Internet culture she was supposed to be analyzing. 
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