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|fandom=[[Teen Wolf]], [[Meta]]

|fandom=[[Teen Wolf]], [[Meta]]

|topic=[[The Fourth Wall]]

|topic=[[The Fourth Wall]]

|url=[http://thewinterotter.tumblr.com/post/91078119856/i-loved-that-essay-on-the-4th-wall-you-reblogged tumblr link]

|url=[http://thewinterotter.tumblr.com/post/91078119856/i-loved-that-essay-on-the-4th-wall-you-reblogged tumblr link]<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20141223184028/http://thewinterotter.tumblr.com/post/91078119856/i-loved-that-essay-on-the-4th-wall-you-reblogged archive link].</ref>

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{{Quotation2|"I loved that essay on the 4th Wall you reblogged but while reading it I found myself unable to quite figure out /how/ it can be broken down. I feel like mainstream media talking about fandom in a respectful and truthful way might well be the best solution to that, but what can fandom do that it isn't doing already? We're talking about our stuff, presenting actors and creators with it, but what more is there we can do?"}}

{{Quotation2|"I loved that essay on the 4th Wall you reblogged but while reading it I found myself unable to quite figure out /how/ it can be broken down. I feel like mainstream media talking about fandom in a respectful and truthful way might well be the best solution to that, but what can fandom do that it isn't doing already? We're talking about our stuff, presenting actors and creators with it, but what more is there we can do?"}}

 

==Answer (Excerpts)==

==Excerpts==

{{Quotation|"I think that part of the reason why the 4th wall is still such a thing is because fandom is desperate to keep it up. Especially for those of us who are older and came up in a different sort of fandom on different platforms, there are a lot of unspoken rules about what you do and don’t discuss or socially allow."}}

{{Quotation|"I think that part of the reason why the 4th wall is still such a thing is because fandom is desperate to keep it up. Especially for those of us who are older and came up in a different sort of fandom on different platforms, there are a lot of unspoken rules about what you do and don’t discuss or socially allow."}}

==Reactions and Responses==

==Reactions and Responses==

The tumblr post was liked and reblogged over 200 times. A few fans added their comments:

The tumblr post was liked and reblogged over 240 times. A few fans added their comments:

{{Quotation|[iwritesometimes]: "i love you, fandom, and i think this entire conversation is vitally important and i’m glad we’re having it in earnest, but fhew, i have never before read such excellent essays and come to the exact opposite conclusions from the authors’. destroying the fourth wall is just so intensely not the answer to this problem; if there were any way to re-erect it and then [[Pacific Rim|station jaegers]] around it to guard it from the kaiju outside, i would have it done. fandom has way WAY too much of its own shit to sort out before we can ever engage with the mainstream on any issue of import (lgbt+ media representation, feminist media criticism, representation of PoC and the differently-abled)...

{{Quotation|[iwritesometimes]: "i love you, fandom, and i think this entire conversation is vitally important and i’m glad we’re having it in earnest, but fhew, i have never before read such excellent essays and come to the exact opposite conclusions from the authors’. destroying the fourth wall is just so intensely not the answer to this problem; if there were any way to re-erect it and then [[Pacific Rim|station jaegers]] around it to guard it from the kaiju outside, i would have it done. fandom has way WAY too much of its own shit to sort out before we can ever engage with the mainstream on any issue of import (lgbt+ media representation, feminist media criticism, representation of PoC and the differently-abled)...