Fanlore:Featured Article Archives/2019: Week 21
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Us is a multifandom metavid by lim. It was released to great acclaim, discussion, and some controversy. Many who loved the vid felt that it was about them, as fans and as a fannish community, and illustrated the experience and mindset of fandom. Others felt that any "us" that the vid illustrated implied an opposing or excluded "them."
The vid has remained popular both with fans, acafans, and critics and scholars outside of fandom. Alexis Lothian's essay "Living in a Den of Thieves" is a close reading of the vid. Michael Wesch included it in his Anthropological History of YouTube. It it was part of an exhibition called "Mediated" which ran January 24, 2009 - April 4, 2009 at the California Museum of Photography.