Monday Mini: Fandom and Obsession
Stuff Mom Never Told You
iHeartPodcasts
4.0 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
While fandom can provide community and so much more, it can also lead to unhealthy parasocial relationships. And even when healthy, girls are often demonized for it. We dig into some recent events and research.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:06.6 | There's a vile sickness in Abbas town. |
| 0:10.4 | You must excise it. |
| 0:12.8 | Dig into the deep earth and cut it out. |
| 0:16.7 | From IHeart podcasts and Grimm and Mild from Aaron Manky, |
| 0:20.0 | this is Havoc Town. A new fiction podcast set in the Bridgewater Audio Universe, starring Jules State and Ray Wise. |
| 0:29.1 | Listen to Havoc Town on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:39.4 | Hey, this is Annie. |
| 0:40.5 | And Samantha. |
| 0:41.3 | I'm welcome to Steph I Never Told You, production of I Heart Radio. |
| 0:53.1 | And, okay, first, let me say immediately, before we start this Monday mini, this is not an attack on fans and fandoms. |
| 1:01.4 | Okay, Annie? |
| 1:02.4 | Okay. |
| 1:03.0 | Okay. |
| 1:03.3 | All right. |
| 1:04.1 | All right. |
| 1:04.4 | So, we are obviously talking about fans, fandoms, and obsessions. |
| 1:08.9 | And I know we've talked a lot about fendoms. And I think |
| 1:11.6 | it's important to kind of continue this conversation because you're about to hear our episode |
| 1:17.8 | of K-pop Demon Hunter, which I kind of will bring up a second about the fandom in general |
| 1:23.2 | and why this may be as big as it is. But yes, so I am specifically talking more about what is happening in the |
| 1:31.6 | K-pop world and kind of its correlation with fandoms, |
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