Brittany Luce

You are not the primary audience that these retailers are aiming towards.

The other thing I'll say is that I also worked in a bookstore throughout the time that I was in college, and men were coming in all the time and buying the worst books you could possibly imagine, like the 48 Laws of Power and things like that.

I mean, there are tweet threads that are better than some of these books that a lot of men...

buy, to be honest, and buy in large numbers.

So it's like, I don't know, I think all genders have their own slop that they engage in different ways.

With men, it's like grind set slop.

Yes, yes.

But I got one more question.

What are people getting out of fanfic or fanfic derived books that people want and like and are maybe missing in other kinds of culture?

I feel privileged I got to speak with you both about fanfiction.

Thank you both so much.

Thank you.

This was great.

This was so fun.

That was Ashley Reese, writer, cultural commentator, and fanfic veteran.

And Eli Cugini, culture writer, PhD student, and author of a defector article called Fanfiction's Total Cultural Victory.

This episode of It's Been a Minute was produced by Liam McBain.

This episode was edited by Nina Potok.

Engineering support came from Damian Herring.

Our supervising producer is Barton Girdwood.