I think from a personal note, the way that fandom has changed in the past year has really been about how tight the loop is in terms of time and in terms of sort of communication on places like Twitter and Reddit and blogs between creators and fans. I’m a big fan of Westworld, I watched that show a lot, and just seeing how the creators are communicating and trolling and joking with and reading all the comments on Reddit about that show is just kind of extraordinary. Creators have always talked to fans on the internet, over the last ten, twenty years, but seeing that in one of the biggest TV shows in the world is really unusual. “Of course that can go really bad, I think we’ve seen that in so many different ways this year. And I feel like we’re slowly trying to crawl our way towards a sort of point where people understand the difference between and the sort of subtleties in communicating with large numbers of people in a way that feels kind of personal on social media.
Adrian Hon, one of the creators of “Zombies, Run!” on the ways that fan/creator interaction has continued to shift over the past year
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