The Fanthropologists

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You may be looking for Fanthropology, a 2005-17 LiveJournal community dedicated to discussing fandom.

Podcast
Title: The Fanthropologists
Created by: Syd, Bridgette
Date(s): 2022-present
Focus: Fandom Communities
Fandom: Multifandom
External Links: https://fanthropologists.tumblr.com
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The Fanthropologists is a fandom podcast hosted by Syd and Bridgette.

The podcast focuses on exploring topics in fandom through an anthropological perspective, with episodes looking at both panfandom topics, such as purity culture and forms of agency, and episodes focusing on individual fandoms, like 9-1-1 and The Last of Us.

On 02 September 2023, the official description read:

Two anthropology PhD candidates using their degrees to think too hard about the internet and fandom.

Episode List

2023 Episodes of The Fanthropologists
Episode Number Release Date Title Fannish Topics Include Direct Link
1 September 2nd, 2022 Introduction X
2 September 19th, 2022 Buddie Clowning pt.1


Guest: Jax

9-1-1, Buddie X
3 September 26th, 2022 Buddie Clowning pt. 2


Guest: Jax

9-1-1, Buddie, Tara/Willow, 9-1-1: Lone Star X
4 October 3rd, 2022 HYPERLINK BLOCKED (The Spamton Sweepstakes Special) Undertale, Deltarune, Spamton X
5 October 7th, 2022 Foucault's Panopticon & MCU's Captain America Captain America, The Winter Soldier X
6 November 5th, 2022 The TVA, The Sacred Timeline, and Agency in Archaeological Theory Loki X
7 December 3rd, 2022 #OmegaRights: Omegaverse, Power, and Reproduction Omegaverse, Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics X
8 December 7th, 2022 #Eddie Would Never: Ryan Guzman and Chicano Aesthetics 9-1-1, Eddie Diaz, Tumblr, Buddie X
9 January 7th, 2023 Purity Culture Purity Culture, Social Media X
10 February 4th, 2023 The Ethics of Biopics Biopics, Real People as Characters X
11 March 3rd, 2023 The Babygirl-ification of CoD's "Ghost" Call of Duty, Ghost, SoapGhost, Fandom Characterisation, Fanon, Babygirlification X
12 April 8th, 2023 The Last of Us and Objects of Grief The Last of Us X
13 May 6th, 2023 Twitter Blue: A Tale of Two Checkmarks Twitter, Social Media X
14 June 6th, 2023 #Everybody Lives/Nobody Dies: Fanfic and Agency Fanfiction, Tropes, Canon Divergence, Canon, Fanon X
15 July 7th, 2023 Spirituality and the Algorithm TikTok, Algorithms X
16 August 4th, 2023 The Last of Us and Kinship The Last of Us X
17 September 1st, 2023 Conventions and Political Economy Conventions, Fans, Gender Dynamics X
18 October 17, 2023 Beyond the Pale: Disco Elysium and Getting Stuck in the Past Disco Elysium, Worldbuilding X
19 November 3, 2023 We Roll a Tumblr Sexyman Tumblr Sexyman X
20 December 2, 2023 Taylor Swift & Material Nostalgia Taylor Swift X

Episode List

2024 Episodes of The Fanthropologists
Episode Number Release Date Title Fannish Topics Include Direct Link
1 January 9, 2024 State of The Union AKA Chatty Episode Castiel/Dean Winchester, Supernatural, Hallmark Movies X
2 February 2, 2024 SCP Foundation: An Ethnography of a Fictional Institution SCP Foundation X
3 April 5, 2024 A Metapragmatic Analysis of Couch Theory 9-1-1, Buddie, Couch Theory X
4 June 9, 2024 Baldur’s Gate 3 Lies and Misinformation Baldur's Gate III X
5 July 30, 2024 SILENCE BRAND! An Episode on Tiktok Ads TikTok X
6 August 21, 2024 The Fandomification of Formula 1 Formula 1 RPF X
7 September 16, 2024 Baldur’s Gate 3: The Worm in your Brain - a Microcosm of Themes Baldur's Gate III X