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Sarah Z
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| Name: | Sarah Z |
| Also Known As: | flying_turtle_festival (MLIA), dingdongyouarewrong (Tumblr) |
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| Occupation: | video essayist, YouTuber |
| Medium: | Youtube, video essays |
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| Official Website(s): | YouTube Channel, Twitter |
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| On Fanlore: | Related pages |
Sarah Z is a Canadian video essayist and YouTuber who creates videos focused on media criticism and fandom histories, the latter being tailored for a primarily non-fannish audience. While not all of her videos about fandom are related to her own fandom history, she is herself a fan and has frequently discussed her time in Tumblr-based Supernatural and BBC Sherlock fandom.
Fandom commentary
Many of Sarah Z's video essays comment on or detail the history of some aspect of fandom, especially (but not exclusively) Tumblr fandom. Some of these essays include:
- Tumblr's Strangest Obsession: A History of the Onceler Fandom, a video which - as the title suggests - details some of the history of Tumblr's Onceler fandom.
- Tumblr's Greatest Conspiracy: The Story of TJLC, an essay on the history of TJLC and some of its biggest proponents. Sarah Z uses fake names for the fans under discussion in order to obscure their fannish (and other) identities.
- Tumblr's Failed Convention: The Story of Dashcon, a history of Dashcon from Sarah Z's perspective as someone who was active in Tumblr fandom at the time of the con.
- The Supernatural Finale Aired, And Tumblr Exploded, a video which attempted to explain the events of Destielgate, despite some of these events unfolding during the episode's scripting or production.[1]
- Two videos related to My Immortal:
- The Mystery Behind The World's Worst Fanfiction, which discusses the fic itself.
- The Author Of My Immortal Emailed Me, And Then It Got Worse, a deep dive into the fannish history of a person who emailed Sarah Z falsely claiming to have written My Immortal.
- A Brief History of Homestuck, co-written with Lady Emily, a two-hour long retrospective on the Homestuck fandom.
- A follow up video, "Homestuck Sent Me A Legal Threat, And Then It Got Worse"
- Fandom's Biggest Controversy: Proshippers vs Antis: a discussion of the ongoing fandom debates between antishippers and proshippers.
Responses from other fans
References
- ^ Tweet by Sarah Z noting that her video was already out of date only hours after it was posted, thanks to the Italian dub being confirmed as a fake. (accessed January 14, 2021) (archive link)