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How fandom built the internet as we know it, with Kaitlyn Tiffany

Decoder with Nilay Patel

CHAPTER

The Political Potential of Phantom

A lot of what phantom does is like pro social and like funny and interesting and exciting and artful. People were paying a lot of attention to the political possibilities of phantom during the summer of 20 20 when they were really rallying around the blacklives matter movement. At other times it can be reactionary. I don't know, it was hard to like strike that balance, cause i didn't want bibo to be like, there are all these ways to practise scandas. But i do feel like thereske, there's a lot of good and bad in phantom. And it's important to think about all it ime.

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