Episode 90 of The Geek Saga Podcast originally aired as a live webcast, “When Fandom Goes Too Far Part 2: The #StopToxicFandom Movement” on December 30th, 2023.
Join myself and special guests Paul Jenkins, Mary Anne Butler, and Bill Watters as we discuss the #StopToxicFandom movement, featuring an in-depth look at our experiences with “The Axanar Problem”, a toxic situation that has run rampant in the Star Trek fandom for far too long.
A note on this episode’s length: The live webcast from which this audio was pulled ran approximately 3 hours, 10 minutes. While this podcast version is approximately 27 minutes shorter, I did not remove anything that was imperative to the discussion. With one minor exception (a portion of a sentence that I spoke *about myself* between approximately the 2:44:20-2:44:35 mark in the webcast), the only things removed from the original recording were pauses/periods of silence punctuated by unnecessary words (‘umm’, ‘like’, ‘right’, ‘you know’). Therefore, this episode is a lot more raw than most of my recent podcast episodes. Apologies to my regular listeners for that, but I knew that if I cut out anything other than what I listed above, I would likely be subject to accusations of trying to hide/erase “bad things that were said” (or some other such nonsense phrasing along those lines).
Additionally, I would like to give a trigger warning for a brief mention of SA, which takes place between the 2:16-2:23 time stamps in this podcast episode.
- Please consider supporting Paul’s GoFundMe as he attempts to get Alec Peters into a courtroom: https://www.gofundme.com/f/please-help-my-friend-paul-jenkins
– Check out http://stoptoxicfandom.com/ for details on the Axanar bank accounts (find the ‘donors click here’ link toward the bottom of the page) - Find MAB online: https://nerdbot.com/author/mab/
- Find Bill online: Insta – https://www.instagram.com/billrw3 & Twitter – https://twitter.com/billrw3
- For a deeper look into my personal experiences with “The Axanar Problem”, begin reading with my blog entry “I’m Not a Star Trek Fan: Alec Peters & Bullying in Fandom, Part 1” (subsequent entries are all linked at the bottom of each installment)
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