Productive Fandom

Lamerichs, Nicolle

doi:10.5117/9789089649386

Cited by 14 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 21 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Historically, conventions have been the place for cosplayers to receive the most attention and in turn revenue for these services. As Lamerichs (2018) notes, many members of the gaming and media industry have taken notice of the wellmade costumes and devotion of their fans, and in turn, have begun using cosplayers for promotional activities and at conventions, where modeling agency girls used to dominate the booth spaces (p. 201). Cosplayers also participate in other monetarily motivated convention activities, like fashion shows, photography sessions, and cosplay acts.…”

Section: Cosplayer As Fantrepreneurmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cosplay on Demand? Instagram, OnlyFans, and the Gendered Fantrepreneur

Rouse

Salter

2021

Social Media + Society

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Fan producers engaged in monetization, or what Suzanne Scott has termed “fantrepreneurs,” struggle with legal mechanisms for brand-building given the limitations of both copyright and platform moderation. These challenges have been amplified during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has fundamentally changed the way that cosplayers, or fans who dress up as characters from their favorite television shows or movies, market themselves in an increasingly online space, as opposed to their initial public platforms of conventions. Restricted by digital platforms and their various moderation and monetization methods, cosplayer fantrepreneurs have developed new, multi-platform methods for sustaining their content and community connection. One prominent platform significant to this turn is OnlyFans, which is billed as a “peer-to-peer subscription app,” and allows users to “Sign up and interact with your fans!” Through a sample analysis of 50 cosplayers, this case study considers the approaches of cosplayers on integrating OnlyFans as part of a multiplatform struggle for economic viability. When we contextualize this platform labor in the history of cosplay, we note the hypersexualized labor that has always been central to monetization in this space, and the media franchise exploitation that profits from that labor at the expense of the fan producer, demonstrating the fundamental, gendered exploitation of the trend toward a patronage economy.

show abstract

Section: Cosplayer As Fantrepreneurmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cosplay on Demand? Instagram, OnlyFans, and the Gendered Fantrepreneur

Rouse

Salter

2021

Social Media + Society

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Catalan Teenagers’ Identity, Literacy and Language Practices on YouTube

Vázquez-Calvo

Elf

Barujel

2020

New Language Learning and Teaching Environments

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The Player’s Interpretative Agency and the Developer’s Disruptive Powers: How Blizzard Enforces Authorial Intention in Overwatch

Blom

2022

Modes of Esports Engagement in Overwatch

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Due to constant internet connection many games nowadays require developers of games such as Overwatch to alter the structure of their video games directly and frequently. This chapter argues that, because of such modern technologies, Blizzard is able to change the meaning of the game content whenever it wants so that players are constantly forced to follow the changing authorial intention if they wish to continue playing the game. An illustrative example of game content to which authorial intention is applied are the Overwatch’s heroes, where the players’ interpretations of the characters as game pieces and fictional beings are systematically outplayed by the developer. This chapter thus demands to critically re-evaluate our perception of the author’s influence over the interpretation of a cultural product.

show abstract

Productive Fandom

Cited by 14 publications

References 21 publications

Cosplay on Demand? Instagram, OnlyFans, and the Gendered Fantrepreneur

Cosplay on Demand? Instagram, OnlyFans, and the Gendered Fantrepreneur

Catalan Teenagers’ Identity, Literacy and Language Practices on YouTube

The Player’s Interpretative Agency and the Developer’s Disruptive Powers: How Blizzard Enforces Authorial Intention in Overwatch

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About