Andrew Keen's new book, ready player one, is about Star Wars fan culture and gatekeeping. He says gamer gate started with people who are fans of a thing becoming defensive of their thing when it is challenged by other audiences. "It kind of this idea of a purity of fan base had metastasized into a thing that was malignant"
Put another quarter in the coin slot folks, because it's time to talk about Ernest Cline's Ready Player One. Topics include bad fan culture, the narrowness of the characters' "exhaustive" knowledge of 80s popular culture, and why the critical response to this book has shifted so much in just a few short years.
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