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Do you remember the first fan? It makes me think of this first fan of Britney's that went public for being distressed.

You know, we've Britney alone. That person? Yes. Please.

With kind of like the like mascara running and that grainy YouTube video. Yeah.

I love you, Britney. Just know that. Okay.

Just to know that. Yes. And everybody made fun of it. And like, I saw a tweet the other day that said like,

we owe that person an apology, you know?

It could have been like a scene as a fringe, fanatic obsession. And now it's just kind of grown to the

point where like the people have taken this on as like a social movement as a social cause.

Yeah. And I think like what's sort of interesting about this movement is that it's,

it only coalesce very recently. That's Angelina Chapin, senior writer for the cut.

The movement has just been fueled by things that fans want to see, a narrative that they've

created of this sort of Rapunzel, you know, stuck in the tower, who they need to save.

And guess what? That turned out to be true.

Okay. So as a kid, I was a totally average Britney fan. I mean, I had the baby one more time CD.

And I would play it on my Walkman, but it was just part of the rotation.

Just another CD in the CD binder next to the wide stripes or Tony Braxton or the Space Jam soundtrack.

I liked her, but she didn't exactly change my life for anything.

So yeah, I remember being online and seeing Britney fans upset about something,

but I just kind of took it like, you know, the internet, stand culture,

Cardi versus Nikki, that kind of thing. I just didn't take Britney fans seriously enough

to stop and actually listen to what they were saying. So now that we realized that they were

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