The Cumberbatch fatigue and fandom policing: is being a fan ever enough anymore?
In “The Cultural Economy of Fandom”, John Fiske wrote that “fans discriminate fiercely: the boundaries between what falls within their fandom and what does not are sharply drawn” (1992: 34). This discriminatory trait is often used to describe how fans draw boundaries between being fans and non-fans, between insiders and outsiders (as in, the general […]