Monday Mini: Yet Another Reason Toxic Fandom Needs to Go

Stuff Mom Never Told You

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Society & Culture

4.2 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

There a lot of reasons toxic fandom needs to go, many we've already talked about. One we haven't? The ability to complain when we don't like something.

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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.
0:39.3	Hey, this is Annie.
0:40.6	And Samantha.
0:41.5	Welcome to Steph on Evertold You, production of iHeartRadio.
0:52.9	And today we are continuing our streak of talking about all things fandom.
0:59.0	We didn't really plan it to be this way.
1:01.0	No, it's true.
1:02.0	But it turned out to be this way.
1:04.5	We are in sync.
1:05.8	We are in sync.
1:06.7	This is also when I always go to DragonCon every year.
1:10.7	You can see our recent happy hour we just did on that about what I think is going to happen.
1:15.7	And then soon you'll, you can hear our post happy hour about what happens.
1:20.7	I also forgot to mention in that pre-happy hour that I got my haircut and I do it every year for DragonCon.
1:25.4	Yeah, I was going to compliment you.
1:26.8	And when I walked in, because I only go once a year right before Dragon Con, she was like, it's you. She was ready. Yeah. And she said she was going to start, like, researching into how to do. Because I showed her what other cosplayers do for Luke Skywalker, and she was like, oh, I'm
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