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Happy Hour #198: Speak Fanilect to Me · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Sanny and Samantha. I'm all your stuff,
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  Speaker 1: to another edition of Happy Hour. As always, if you
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  Speaker 1: choose to drink or whatever you're choosing to do, please
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  Speaker 1: do so responsibly. Samantha, what are you doing anything?
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  Speaker 2: Keep it up with my caffeine intake right now.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my, I'm at caffeine in a long time. Oh wow, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, I guess, but I am drinking red wine, so.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, you're doing it.
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  Speaker 1: Was like not the no, no, no, I was I,
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  Speaker 1: as listeners know, I was having a problem with heart racing,
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  Speaker 1: and so I just had to stop stop doing it. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: we are getting tour the end of twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 1: and Samantha and I are trying desperately to have some
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  Speaker 1: lighter topics during this time, and I have to say
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  Speaker 1: it's difficult, but this is a fun one, although it
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  Speaker 1: required more research than I was anticipating, and we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to come back and do a whole episode on
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  Speaker 1: it because I was like, oh, a fun, easy one,
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  Speaker 1: and then it was like, actually, all these research bakers
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  Speaker 1: have been written about this, all right, So today we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about Fanelett, which I'll get into in a second.
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  Speaker 2: I also don't know what that is.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I'm so excited to explain it. So the
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  Speaker 1: reason I wanted to talk about this, This has been
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  Speaker 1: on my list for a while because I'm a huge nerd,
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  Speaker 1: but I recently have dipped my toes and a fandom
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  Speaker 1: that's new to me. Because I was just curious what
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  Speaker 1: was going on over there, okay expanding and it was
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  Speaker 1: funny to me how much I didn't understand about what
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  Speaker 1: they were saying. I was like, I don't I don't
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  Speaker 1: understand what this means. A lot of that fandom is younger,
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  Speaker 1: so they have a lot of both the youth slang
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand, but like it's a new fandom to me,
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  Speaker 1: it's true, it's true. Also, they have all these edits
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  Speaker 1: and that made me laugh. We did I used to
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  Speaker 1: do that too before, like social media. We would do
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  Speaker 1: it on YouTube and you know, you would sync it
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  Speaker 1: up to songs.
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  Speaker 3: And people who do edits amaze me because that is
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  Speaker 3: a skill and that it takes a lot of time,
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  Speaker 3: so to do it as a hobby is a fascinating
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  Speaker 3: Maybe it's because me I quit obviously soon into so
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  Speaker 3: like that just seems like such a commitment.
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  Speaker 2: Kudos, but keep going.
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  Speaker 1: I have loved it. I I've honestly like completely lost
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  Speaker 1: my mind. And I'll talk about that later. But so
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  Speaker 1: fan elect is it's like a private language between fans
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  Speaker 1: of something. It's in a fandom, okay, where you know.
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  Speaker 1: So I go into this new fandom and I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: what does this mean? Because I can tell it means something,
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  Speaker 1: and so you can just quote something or say a
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  Speaker 1: word and it has a huge It has a much
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  Speaker 1: bigger meaning than just that word. And this is related to,
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  Speaker 1: but different from lore. So lare is sort of the
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  Speaker 1: if you've watched this, you know that it means this.
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  Speaker 1: This is like actually a language, and in fact, it
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  Speaker 1: has been studied. There are a lot of research papers
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  Speaker 1: on it. There are other things like family Act, which
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  Speaker 1: is something between family. So if you just say a
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  Speaker 1: word in your family and everybody knows what that means,
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  Speaker 1: but no one else would know what that means, okay,
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  Speaker 1: Or like when you're with your best friend or even
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  Speaker 1: a partner of you know, I could say to my
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  Speaker 1: best friend Katie Chapstick, she would know what that means.
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  Speaker 2: So this goes beyond just like inside joke.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, okay, it's like a the research papers are saying,
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  Speaker 1: this is almost a different language that is happening. It
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  Speaker 1: does relate to things like Easter eggs, which I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: most of you know, but it's just like kind of
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  Speaker 1: a little nod to something that the creators put into
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  Speaker 1: entertainment where you're supposed to be like, oh that, I
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  Speaker 1: know what that is. It also a lot of initialism,
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  Speaker 1: which is just like very long initials. That's what got
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  Speaker 1: me interested in this because I was like, what the
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  Speaker 1: hell is this initial thing?
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  Speaker 3: So because I see that a lot in like social media,
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  Speaker 3: does that transfer over into like crossover to both those
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  Speaker 3: things and one came from the other.
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  Speaker 1: Uh well, it's very easy to share it quickly on
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  Speaker 1: social media, so I think that is where it shines
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  Speaker 1: the most, or on the Internet. It's just like a quick, easy,
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  Speaker 1: almost shorthand you can share with other fans. And the
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  Speaker 1: thing is, I've talked about this with fan fiction, but
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  Speaker 1: when you're playing in the same sandbox, you don't have
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  Speaker 1: to explain the basics. You can just be like this right, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and everybody knows what you're talking about. It's amazing and
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  Speaker 1: it will not surprise you to hear that linguist did
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  Speaker 1: start looking into this thanks to Taylor Swift. Thanks to
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  Speaker 1: Taylor Swift fandom, it really develops this fanele act by
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  Speaker 1: scrutinizing things, finding patterns, and having a shorthand for it.
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  Speaker 1: When Taylor's which was named the Person that Year in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, Time mentioned fanellict and how that happened.
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  Speaker 1: And I have to say, when I watched a Taylor
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  Speaker 1: Swift music video with my friend Marissa, who's a big
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  Speaker 1: Taylor Swift fan, it was amazing. It was eye opening.
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  Speaker 1: She was like, see this means this, and this means this,
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  Speaker 1: and this means this. It was like she was speaking
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  Speaker 1: a different language. I didn't understand. It was amazing. Also,
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  Speaker 1: Taylor Swift is huge in fan fiction and fandoms, so
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  Speaker 1: even if like in my Star Wars fandom, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of they'll use it there. And that's actually how I
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  Speaker 1: got into Taylor Swift. So I was like, I need
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  Speaker 1: to understand this Star Wars fan fiction that's based on
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  Speaker 1: the Taylor say fanellict that I don't get, And now
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  Speaker 1: I get it, got it, and now you know, and
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  Speaker 1: now I know, it's just a really it's just fun
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  Speaker 1: and it's usually funny. It can be it can be
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  Speaker 1: very toxic, like anything in fandom, right, but when it
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  Speaker 1: is fun, it is so fun and it's really hilarious.
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  Speaker 1: It's usually tongue in cheek. It's playful. It's easy to
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  Speaker 1: share on the internet, and it does change with new materials,
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  Speaker 1: so it can get confusing. And and also like depending
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  Speaker 1: on what niche of the fandom you're in, it takes
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  Speaker 1: a different meaning sometimes or the way people interpret it.
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  Speaker 1: I guess yes, yes, and I have to say I
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  Speaker 1: with my new absolute loss of mind, I feel like
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  Speaker 1: I'm a conspiracy theorist. But the but you know the
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  Speaker 1: way the shippers, which if you don't know, I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: you do. But shippers are you know, people who ship
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  Speaker 1: people romantically they do, and the analysis they do. It's
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  Speaker 1: you're making a believer out of me. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what to do about it. I feel I'm either
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  Speaker 1: being gas lit or I'm being I don't know what's
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  Speaker 1: happening right now.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 1: This is I I'm having so much fun because it's
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  Speaker 1: been a long time since this has happened to me,
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  Speaker 1: and I've said before, Like, I like that anticipation of
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  Speaker 1: learning more things. I know a lot of people don't
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  Speaker 1: like that. I'm pretty sure you don't like that, but
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  Speaker 1: I like the let me wait, let me wait a
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  Speaker 1: week before this episode so I can have this beautiful
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  Speaker 1: time where I can imagine anything can happen. And so
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  Speaker 1: it's been fun. It's been really fun. But I have
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  Speaker 1: to say, I really really was not anticipating how much
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  Speaker 1: linguistic research has been done on this. I was shocked.
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  Speaker 1: But it's true. I mean, if you get like a
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  Speaker 1: group of fans who all know the same things, the
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  Speaker 1: same Easter eggs, the same this means this, and they're
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  Speaker 1: all talking and you don't know anything about it, it's
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  Speaker 1: not even oh I don't know. Like I knew about
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  Speaker 1: Taylor Swift with Burissa show me that music, right, but
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  Speaker 1: she knew all of this other stuff and she was
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  Speaker 1: just you even if you know about the fandom, if
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  Speaker 1: you don't know the fanel act, yeah, you'll still be
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  Speaker 1: kind of like, what are you talking?
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  Speaker 3: So Siria's question, because there was a lot of conspiracy
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  Speaker 3: theory about Taylor's new album and her March like not great,
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  Speaker 3: not great conspiracy theories and there's been like the article
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  Speaker 3: did you see the article from Rolling Stone that just
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  Speaker 3: came out about the bots that were actively campaigning against
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  Speaker 3: this album and like that was the discovery so because
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  Speaker 3: they were doing the same thing but in an opposition
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  Speaker 3: to Taylor saf Swift.
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  Speaker 2: Do so have you looked at what that is doing?
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  Speaker 3: Are these like inside bad players taking those types of
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  Speaker 3: codes and like fanele ICs and using that in this
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  Speaker 3: not for good for evil context rather?
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  Speaker 1: Uh honestly, I haven't seen that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you haven't.
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  Speaker 1: Well, no, I know what you're talking about. I haven't
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  Speaker 1: seen the fanele act parts. Okay, okay, but I would
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  Speaker 1: be surprised because I think, I guess not surprised Taylor
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  Speaker 1: Swift fanel act is. It's like on another level, the
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  Speaker 1: bots would really have to Okay, what does the mean?
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  Speaker 1: I mean what I guess if you know?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 1: So it's I don't know that that specifically. I know
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  Speaker 1: some uh like lyrics which can be fanelex right has
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  Speaker 1: been used, but I don't a lot of what I'm
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  Speaker 1: thinking of hasn't been used in that way. But I
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  Speaker 1: don't know because I try to avoid all of that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it popped up on my feet at random times,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm like, I don't know what's happening. This feels weird,
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  Speaker 3: Like this feels like it's such a one eighty from
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  Speaker 3: what was happening previously that I'm confused. Is this like
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  Speaker 3: the anti stands like the antis in UH Korea when
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  Speaker 3: they get mad that you have a partner, that you've
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  Speaker 3: settled down, so therefore they're going to do all these
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  Speaker 3: things to you.
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  Speaker 1: It's a lot of things, And actually something came out
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  Speaker 1: about that today about a very targeted tech against her
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  Speaker 1: uh by these these bots. But I feel like fan
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  Speaker 1: elect maybe I'm wrong. I feel like fanelect is so
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  Speaker 1: specific to fans like you right to know what that means.
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  Speaker 3: So they're pretty gate kept, like you have to be
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  Speaker 3: a fan in order to know what's going.
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  Speaker 1: On, or at least like it's not obvious. Okay, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think it's gate because I learned this new fantom
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  Speaker 1: I'm dipping my tone, and I learned in like a day.
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  Speaker 3: But I just you're also a different beast when it
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  Speaker 3: comes to like obsessions.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that is true. That is true. But based
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  Speaker 1: on I write essays, I never intend to publish or
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  Speaker 1: anyone to read.
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  Speaker 3: Based on these obsessions and then intrigues and then research
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  Speaker 3: that I have nowhere to go.
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  Speaker 1: It has Yeah, yeah except for hear about the hours,
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  Speaker 1: that's true. We also have done episodes on shipping and
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  Speaker 1: so related to that, I will say within fandoms, fan
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  Speaker 1: elect can get weaponized. That's that's what I see more of.
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  Speaker 2: Okay on each other or like outdoing each other.
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  Speaker 1: Well, like if a ship you don't like uses a
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  Speaker 1: certain fanele act, then you'll you can weaponize it in
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  Speaker 1: a certain way. I think probably all of it happens.
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  Speaker 1: I but that's what I've seen more of, Okay, is
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  Speaker 1: that during like shipping wars, where people will take that Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: oh it's it's a real deal man, as we talked
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  Speaker 1: about in that episode. But yeah we did. We should
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  Speaker 1: come back and do a full episode on this. I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't expecting all of this research and then we can
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  Speaker 1: we can look into all of these bots and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: That, well, we need to come back. We visit conversations
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  Speaker 2: about bots now.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, like it's interesting when like if they are
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  Speaker 3: as good as that to get into something so niche.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, interested knowing. Yeah, I definitely a topic I
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  Speaker 1: would like to revisit. This is sort of related to
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  Speaker 1: I've talked about it before, but in fan fiction you
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  Speaker 1: do tagging, and that can also that's also kind of
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  Speaker 1: a fan elect that can get weaponized. I usually don't
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  Speaker 1: experience it because I through this new experience. Yes, I
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  Speaker 1: have a very niche older fandom, so it's not like
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  Speaker 1: that typically. I did get my first mean review. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're going too slow. I did get that one too,
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  Speaker 1: but that one wasn't that mean. It was just like
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  Speaker 1: when are you updating? I got one that was actually mean,
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  Speaker 1: and it would have destroyed me if I in the beginning,
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  Speaker 1: but now I kind of laughed at it. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: that's really funny.
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  Speaker 2: I can't see. No, it's too much my hand.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciated the prose of it. Really took their time.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, what are you and conning you like? This is
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  Speaker 2: what I like? This is what I didn't like.
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  Speaker 1: No, it was just like, no, it's terrible, but a
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  Speaker 1: long explanation of why. But a lot of the other readers,
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  Speaker 1: oh yeah, I honestly laugh, like I'm not even exaggerating.
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  Speaker 1: It made me laugh, and a bunch of other readers
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  Speaker 1: came in and were like, leave her be I like this.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, this is thee to see when people
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  Speaker 3: can defend you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you appreciated it. Critics, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how to because I usually respond every comment, so I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what I'm going to do.
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  Speaker 2: Oh noted, that's why you put just putting noted.
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  Speaker 1: I think I'll just do you like a. It really
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  Speaker 1: made me laugh? Are you okay?
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  Speaker 2: I cannot read yours? I might also be sarcastic.
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  Speaker 1: I also got into a super secret fan fiction discord.
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  Speaker 2: I know, how's that going? Did you figure it out
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  Speaker 2: a little bit?
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  Speaker 1: Okay? I don't know how to work discord, but I'm trying.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying my best. So I've got a lot of
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  Speaker 1: Fanish things happening. I have a lot of stuff, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm having a good time. Good time. Yes, well, listeners,
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  Speaker 1: if you have any fanele act you would like to share.
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  Speaker 1: I love learning about it. It is so fun to me.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me what it means, what's your favorite one? Or
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  Speaker 1: any thoughts about this at all? Please write in. You
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