A review by eatingfiction
Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It by Kaitlyn Tiffany
funny
informative
reflective
medium-paced
3.0
Not sure I needed the deep dive on Larry 😭 but I surprisingly really enjoyed this book. If I had known it was exclusively about One Direction fandom (which it says its not not but IT IS) I may have never picked it up... but I don't regret reading it. It was morbidly fascinating to get an inside look at a fandom I saw only from the outside.
It's presented somewhat academically, but it's more of a semi-autobiographical book about the author's own experiences on stan twitter & tumblr, and it explores internet fandom at large exclusively through the lens of 1D. It's quite the journey. I don't know that it ever reached a solid conclusion (so what IS fandom? Why is fandom? Where do we go from here??) but I feel it gave me plenty to reflect on (as someone who spent a lot of time of tumblr lol).
I would recommend this to any One Direction fans seeking nostalgia, or anyone who is curious about their experience. Though honestly, you may get about the same results from scrolling through a tumblr archive. 🤷♀️
It's presented somewhat academically, but it's more of a semi-autobiographical book about the author's own experiences on stan twitter & tumblr, and it explores internet fandom at large exclusively through the lens of 1D. It's quite the journey. I don't know that it ever reached a solid conclusion (so what IS fandom? Why is fandom? Where do we go from here??) but I feel it gave me plenty to reflect on (as someone who spent a lot of time of tumblr lol).
I would recommend this to any One Direction fans seeking nostalgia, or anyone who is curious about their experience. Though honestly, you may get about the same results from scrolling through a tumblr archive. 🤷♀️
Content Warnings
Moderate: Abortion and Stalking
Minor: Vomit