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threelargeelefants · 9 months

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I'm writing a paper on Goncharov right now and I can sooth your nerves that the difference between Gonch and whatever's happening on tiktok is not the fake media. Fake media and fake people and fake history will always and has always existed. Neither is the collective storytelling.

The difference is that we made Goncharov real by imitating a fandom for it. Like yes mass hallucinating a movie was fun and an incredible feat of collective creativity. But the *way* we created Goncharov is what will always make it special.

We, as a website, spontaneously created a perfect pastiche of fandom, one that was so identical to any other fandom behaviour it made the movie seem real.

As I quote thetwistyoucantresist in my paper, “maybe the real Goncharov was the Fandom we made along the way”.

Goncharov isnt the fake movie its the fake fandom, that's what special and unique and one of a kind

#goncharov #absolutely HATE saying im writing a paper abt it #makes me feel like a sell out #or so corporate or whatever #but its for my fan activities class #and its about goncharov as a pastiche as a fake fandom and as collective storytelling and the implications these #observations have on media theory #for fellow media students its got some sweet sweet birmigham school in there

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