Rewriting Ripley

The Villain Battle Royal!!!!

32 villains enter, 1 VILLAIN LEAVES. Join us as we talk, argue, and plead our cases in a 32 villain bracket with only 1 coming out on top. Friendships will be tested, patience tried, pandemonium!... Or maybe you'll have a good time, who knows? We also discuss all things online villain discourse and we have some choice words for twitter.  Timestamps:  8:00 - 32:07: Online villain discourse  32:08 - end: Villain battle royal 

The Wild (Online) West Part 3: 2014 to Present

C/W: This episode contains mentions of pedophilia and CSEM ENTER: Digital Society. The year is 2014. The alt right is rising online with mass harassment movements like gamergate, reactionary "cancel culture" is finding its way into left wing spaces on college campuses, and the suicide rate among teens is skyrocketing. Lady V and Katie close out a 3-part series on the brief history of online fandom with a look at the internet from 2014 until now where we cover right-wing PsyOps, the Tumb...

The Wild (Online) West Part 2: 2005 to 2013

C/W This episode contains mentions of self-harm from 41:15 to 42:09 Panic!In The Fandom. The glory days of web 1.0 have ended and the nazis and puritans have arrived in full force. Lady V and Katie continue to explore the brief history of fandom from the founding of YouTube in 2005 up until 2013. We answer the question: where DID current political discourse in fandom begin? We're talking the rise of UGC, 4chan's misogynistic obsession with Justin Bieber, the 2nd FanFiction.net purge, th...

The Wild (Online) West Part 1: 1995 to 2005

In our second podcast series, Lady V and Katie cover the (brief) history of online fandom and how it got to where it is today. In this episode, we travel back to Web 1.0 when websites looked like a PowerPoint deck, YouTube was Albino Blacksheep, Fortnite was RuneScape, Anne Rice didn't like your fanfiction, and 4chan was still an anime forum. We also discuss the Yahoo! Answers shut down and how, no, George Lucas doesn't get enough appreciation, actually. Yahoo! Answers Shuts Down: 2m 19s ...

In Plain Sight Part 3: Have We Learned from Gamergate?

In this finale of our three part series on alt-right radicalization in fandom spaces (and guys, its a long one), Katie and Lady V explain how fake narratives online can spread as truth and touch upon numerous harassment campaigns against creatives at Lucasfilm. We also take time to humorously review EVERYTHING that happened after we kick-started this series from doxxing and death threats to being called witches and demons and cat ladies, oh my! Timestamps: How hate against The Last Jed...

In Plain Sight Part 2: You Are Not Immune to Propaganda

Welcome to the Math Episode. Katie monologues her social media analysis (spoiler alert: The Last Jedi wasn't actually "polarizing."). She also gets real with her past brush with radicalization in online fandom (no, not Star Wars) and Lady V did not figure Muse in her 2021 bingo card. Timestamps:  00:00:00 - 00:03:15: Intro  00:03:16 - 00:24:47: Reaction to The Last Jedi  00:024:48 - 00:38:38: Twitter sentiment analysis  00:38:39 - 00:42:26: YouTube sentiment analysis  00:42:27 - 01:...

In Plain Sight Part 1: Industry of Outrage, Gamergate, and #BoycottStarWarsVII

In this 2-part series, Katie and Lady V take a deep dive into alt right radicalization in Star Wars fandom. In Part 1, Lady V walks us through the timeline of conservative outrage culture from Rush Limbaugh to Steve Bannon. We discuss the harrowing impact of Gamergate, Breitbart News, and Cambridge Analytica on the so-called "21st century culture war" and what that all has to do with the #BoycottStarWarsVII hashtag. Was this racist attack against actor John Boyega really just 4chan troll...

Math Just Says You're Misogynistic, Jared

Katie and Lady V discuss the troubling impact of social media on content creation, Ben Shapiro's latest grift, and why do we constantly hear the phrase "Mary Sue?" Equipped with over 250k data points, we answer once and for all: Do people ACTUALLY use "Gary Stu" to describe male characters or is it all just sexism? Check out full show notes, data visualizations, and methodology at our website: www.rewritingripley.com 

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