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There were so many things in this article that I wanted to talk about; I had a hard time choosing the pull quote for this post.

Here are a couple other things I'm still thinking about:

I think back to L.I. saying her classmates made her like that—made her like what, though? The status of “victim” when you’re bullied in school is complicated. Kids are vicious, but then we’re fooling ourselves if we believe that all bullying is wholly undeserved, some random tragedy of the cosmos. What is too painful for many of us to face is that bullying is a social corrective, and the bullies who take it too far are themselves punished.

This part made me want to take the author's hand and say, "you didn't deserve for someone to throw a slushy at you out of a moving car." Teenagers are deeply unlikable and deserving of love. This sat uncomfortably with me because L.I. was bullied for, among other things, being "a t----y." Bullying is a "social corrective," I guess, but what is the underlying "transgression" that deserves ostracism, harassment, or outright violence? It wasn't the dangerously homophobic students at my high school who were bullied. It was the gay kids.

This is what it practically, actually looks like for everything to be a fandom. Everything is fandom because everything, and therefore, everyone is media. And the only way to truly live in a world first consumed by media, and next, consumed by capitalism, is fandom.