One of The New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2022.
Named one of the best books of 2022 by The New Yorker, Pitchfork,
Vanity Fair and TIME. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice.
"On the internet, fandom can be a route toward cyberbullying a
baby, or it can be a way of figuring some things out about
yourself. Sometimes, it can even forge a writer as funny and
perceptive as Kaitlyn Tiffany." --Amanda Hess, The New York Times
"Wistful, winning, and unexpectedly funny." --Katy Waldman, The New
Yorker A thrilling dive into the world of superfandom and the
fangirls who shaped the social internet. In 2014, on the side of a
Los Angeles freeway, a One Direction fan erected a shrine in the
spot where, a few hours earlier, Harry Styles had vomited. "It's
interesting for sure," Styles said later, adding, "a little niche,
maybe." But what seemed niche to Styles was actually a signpost for
an unfathomably large, hyper-connected alternate universe: stan
culture. In Everything I Need I Get from You, Kaitlyn Tiffany, a
staff writer at The Atlantic and a superfan herself, guides us
through the online world of fans, stans, and boybands. Along the
way we meet girls who damage their lungs from screaming too loud,
fans rallying together to manipulate chart numbers using complex
digital subversion, and an underworld of inside jokes and shared
memories surrounding band members' allergies, internet typos, and
hairstyles. In the process, Tiffany makes a convincing, and often
moving, argument that fangirls, in their ingenuity and
collaboration, created the social internet we know today. "Before
most people were using the internet for anything," Tiffany writes,
"fans were using it for everything." With humor, empathy, and an
insider's eye, Everything I Need I Get from You reclaims internet
history for young women, establishing fandom not as the territory
of hysterical girls but as an incubator for digital innovation,
art, and community. From alarming, fandom-splitting conspiracy
theories about secret love and fake children, to the interplays
between high and low culture and capitalism, Tiffany's book is a
riotous chronicle of the movement that changed the internet
forever.
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