Hacker News with Generative AI: Fandom

Filk Music (wikipedia.org)
Filk music is a musical culture, genre, and community tied to science fiction, fantasy, and horror fandom and a type of fan labor.
Music, Fandom, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror
6 points by akkartik 9 days ago | 1 comments
Fandom sells gaming media brand Giant Bomb to long-term staff (fandom.com)
Fandom, the world’s largest fan platform, is selling Giant Bomb to long-time Giant Bomb staff and gaming content creators Jeff Bakalar and Jeff Grubb.
Gaming, Media, Acquisitions, Business, Fandom
214 points by minimaxir 13 days ago | 134 comments
Forensic Fandom (exiledfan.substack.com)
A while back, a fellow fandom writer tweeted about how music fans are missing out on the joy of absorbing songs into their own lives, applying them to their own experiences by instead focusing on the what and who the songs are about, and how they map onto the existing narrative of the performer’s life.
Music, Fandom, Culture, Analysis
15 points by jger15 25 days ago | 3 comments
BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable (breezewiki.com)
It removes ads, videos, and suggested content, leaving you with a clean page that doesn't slow down your device or use up your data.
Web Browsing, Fandom, Productivity Tools
139 points by LorenDB 54 days ago | 67 comments
'Fandom has toxified the world': Watchmen author Alan Moore (theguardian.com)
Enthusiasm can be a productive force for good, but our culture has rapidly become a fan-based landscape that the rest of us are merely living in
Culture, Fandom, Criticism, Entertainment, Society
67 points by zeristor 208 days ago | 94 comments
Helping wikis move away from Fandom (weirdgloop.org)
Hi! You may have seen that Weird Gloop is now hosting the official League of Legends Wiki. We’ve spent the last couple months working with the Riot folks and the League wiki editors to move it off of Fandom, and turn it into something the players will (hopefully!) really dig. I also love that it got started because one of the Riot guys plays a ton of Old School RuneScape and thinks our wiki is awesome. How cool is that??
Fandom, Wikis, Gaming
1176 points by creatonez 225 days ago | 487 comments
Why Disney Hates Star Wars Fans [video] (youtube.com)
Disney, Star Wars, Entertainment, Fandom
3 points by Rinzler89 260 days ago | 0 comments
“Attention assault” on Fandom (j3s.sh)
Fandom, Social Media, Online Communities, Attention Economy
401 points by todsacerdoti 340 days ago | 218 comments
Wookieepedia: Wiki encyclopedia on the Star Wars universe (fandom.com)
Star Wars, Wikipedia, Fandom, Entertainment
13 points by thunderbong 378 days ago | 6 comments
Rebel 'Star Wars' fans saved the original movies (nytimes.com)
Star Wars, Fandom, Film, History
38 points by alex_young 384 days ago | 28 comments