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| Podcast | |
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| 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
| Episode Number | Release Date | Title | Fannish Topics Include | Direct Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 2nd, 2022 | Introduction | X | |
| 2 | September 19th, 2022 | Buddie Clowning pt.1
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9-1-1, Buddie | X |
| 3 | September 26th, 2022 | Buddie Clowning pt. 2
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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
| 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 |