Everything I Need I Get from You
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Average rating3.3
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Ratings5
Average rating3.3
"A thrilling and riotous dive into the world of superfandom, One Direction, and the fangirls who shaped the social internet"--
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I was fully about one direction more than actual insight about how online fandoms shape the internet. Most of the information was personal anectdotes or information that I (and I'm not in the 1D fandom) already knew.
OK so “How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It” is a book I'd love to read but it's really not what this book is? This book is 90% a history of One Direction online fandom with occasional offhand mentions of other fandoms, mostly K-Pop. I've been very involved with online fan communities since my teen years, but just not those ones.
Anyway that said, I still really enjoyed this read because One Direction fandom is WILD. I appreciated Kaitlyn Tiffany's insider perspective and that she was writing as a fangirl herself and not really ridiculing online fangirls, especially taking care to point out that a lot of their most wild activities (building a shrine to Harry Styles's puke) are done by people who were in on the joke and know that it's something intentionally funny and weird to do.
So, yeah, a fun and interesting read but NOT as described on the tin!! I think it would also have teen appeal, esp for teen 1D (or tangentially K-Pop) fans.
