Fandom language in mainstream media
Aug. 20th, 2018 08:10 am"What I found interesting, particularly in the reading we were doing for this episode, which I didn’t really know much about is [Elon Musk’s] incredibly passionate, almost religious, fan base was, I think, the thing that I found really interesting about him, as this figure, that he has attracted, you know, this sort of extreme fan base that will defend him in these incredibly ugly ways online. (I mean, I guess, everything does now-a-days.) But because I don’t follow the tech world that much, I was like, Really? A tech entrepreneur has, like, you know, a really johnlock conspiracy-esque fan base? You know, that was really fascinating to me."
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Isaac Butler on the Slate Culture Gabfest: You Will Never Be Enough Edition, August 22, 2018 http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/culturegabfest.html
The first time I’ve run across johnlock conspiracy being used by a non-fandom journalist. It’s probably not a coincidence that this quote is from Slate, whose show Decoder Ring ran an episode on TJLC in June (http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/decoder_ring/2018/06/decoder_ring_explores_how_a_conspiracy_theory_about_a_gay_sherlock_holmes.html)