zeegoeshere

Thank you for this. I definitely thought that bandom was basically all white boys when I was first getting into it. (Though some of that was probably my assumptions of whiteness.) Eventually I realized that there *were* people of color and women and they just didn't get as much fannish screen time. And that's true of most fandoms, but at least with a TV show you can easily look up who is on the show. Bandom knowledge-gathering is more of a process and a lot of the canon is canon-as-presented-by-fans. It put *me* off, so I would imagine a lot of other people take one look and say do not want. (It also doesn't help that FOB's videos have such sketchy race stuff going on. I cut them a little slack now that I know the "hoods" are mostly played by friends of theirs and famous people, but still. At the time, I went looking for commentary on that, thinking there *must* have meta about it... I found one essay on a blog and it wasn't written by a bandom person AFAICT.)