re: money ruins fandom

[toujours_nigel]

In my experience*, the acceptability of fandom in the Global North has involved a disavowal and pushing-under-the-bus of non-transformative and for-profit piracy which characterises fannish experience in the Global South.

So it is fascinating to watch how the intersection of transformative and for-profit piracy works upon people.









* as both a fan from the Global South for the last decade and half, and a piracy researcher in the last three years.

Comments

[toujours_nigel]

The status of people like moderators of mailing lists and LJ/DW communities? And perhaps also those who run gift exchanges—if they run successfully, that is, and for several years.

Yes, exactly! But I would also include prolific creators of fanworks, whether writers, artists, podficcers, meta-writers, reccers, etc. Anyone who contributes substantial labour to fandom, and therefore has "become a name".