‘Fandom has toxified the world’: Watchmen author Alan Moore on superheroes, Comicsgate and Trump
www.theguardian.com
Enthusiasm can be a productive force for good, but our culture has rapidly become a fan-based landscape that the rest of us are merely living in
  • @MoonManKipperEnglish
    9•1 month ago

    I’m not sure the head line does the article justice - it’s rather more nuanced than that

    • @CitizenKongEnglish
      6•1 month ago

      That statement is pretty much Alan Moore in a nutshell.

  • @[email protected]English
    -8•1 month ago

    Yeah, it’s the fans who are the problem, not the multi trillion dollar “celebrity” industry that is pushing all this shit (including his) on to us for profit… 🙄

    • @[email protected]English
      9•1 month ago

      Did you… read the article? He literally complains about the hyper commercialization and the difference in how a “fandom” of 15 year olds were all just mutually enjoy something versus how a fandom of 40 year old dudes were infinitely less pleasant.