An event or moment · 2012 · Assembled fandom
Fandom wars
Organised conflict between fanbases, with brigading, ratioing and coalition behaviour, conducted with the grammar of war.
Fan organisations developed the same apparatus as states: recruitment, propaganda, alliance, denial. And the participants believe they are defending art.
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