‘Everything I Need I Get from You’ Chronicles Fandoms

All the things I Want I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Web as We Know It is a well-informed, witty, generally confessional account of fandom within the age of social media. Half journalism, half historical past, and half memoir, Kaitlyn Tiffany’s e-book stretches again to the times earlier than there even was an web (she dredges up sneering press accounts of bobbysoxers and Beatlemania, together with the inevitable moments when reporters could not inform that teenagers had been pulling their legs) and revisits our on-line world’s first colonists (“Earlier than most individuals had been utilizing the web for something, followers had been utilizing it for every thing”). However her focus is on a contemporary fandom, one she participated in herself: the devotees of the boy band One Path.

Right here she finds a microcosm of every thing else on-line: inscrutable in-jokes, networked energy, conspiracy theories, and the human impulse to forge an identification and a group with individuals who share a ardour. This world could really feel acquainted even to readers who’ve by no means stanned a celeb of their lives. “There isn’t a such factor as fan web,” Tiffany concludes, “as a result of fan web is the web.”